Originally Posted by
etflies
Because as CFI's we aren't competitive against guys on furlough from the airlines. It's hard to make yourself seem like the better choice over a pilot with thousands of tprop or jet hours when you have thousands of piston and a few hundred light twin hours.
You guys keep making it sounds like an airline would actually have a choice to hire you over a furloughed guy. There is no choice. It's the furloughed pilots job to come back to if they want it. It's not like the airline can just blow off the guys they furloughed and skip to you.
Now, if they recall the furloughed guys and some choose not to return, that may create openings.