Originally Posted by
taymor1234
I am not justifying paying, but this is not 2007 any more. This is worst then 911, if you could remember we recover from 911 after 6 month.
Guys we are in a very very bad situation right now and the marked will change, but takes about 2 more years. Do you think a person who paid $ 50 000 to get his rating cares about paying $5000 more to land a job?
I know paying is bad but what other options do you have? and don't say a word about CFI please. When you have over 500 hrs JET time its not cool to go backwards and fly 172 in a hot summer. And there is no CFI job out there at all.
Do you guys seriously think Pilots like to pay money to get the job?
Do you have 500 hours of jet time? I have a few thousand, some of it PIC at a 121. I also spent some time at a LCC not just the regionals. I had to go back to being a CFI to have a job and I did it happily, until I found another job. No one should ever think they are "better" than a job, espically when times are like this. So don't say its not cool to do something. Just imagine instead of your students paying you, you pay them for the privilege of teaching them what you had to pay to learn.
Either way I think this is a moot point. The OP had made up his or her mind about doing this, they just wanted to know about the place before they got there. So I wish the best of luck to them and maybe next time they will find a MEI to split time with to get some multi. It would be alot cheaper and he or she could keep the current job.