Something else you young guys with rediculous amounts of time might be overlooking is that it can smell fishy to the hiring department at most airlines. I guarantee it will come up at an interview and the last thing they want to hear is "i flew around for sh!ts and giggles, paying for it out of my (or mommy and daddy's) pocket". Diamnd15, how are you flying 110hrs a month if you aren't already employed? When I was instructing at one of the largest aviation colleges in the country with a full load of students. doing checkrides and maxing out my duty time every month, I was averaging 80 hours a month of flight time.

Got another question for you young guys who are up to your eye balls in flight time: what is your damn hurry? If you got hired TODAY, thats 4 years MINIMUM to upgrade. Regardless what the upgrade time is at the company. Do you really want to sling gear in a B1900 at Colgan or where ever else might hire you for 4 years? At 19 you should go to college, party yourself silly, have drunk sex with random girls and not have to worry about reserve phone time, 30 in 7 conflicts, when your next PC is due, is the company paying me right, is what they're asking me to do legal, when am i going to eat next, how quickly can I cover the 3 S's (sh!t, shower and shave) in the morning and all those other glamourous things that go on in the regional airline world. Thats just my 2 cents.