Originally Posted by
freezingflyboy
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.
I dont know. Its not really a rush, but more of a "why waste time" type of feeling. Regardless of whether I'd be right seat for 1 month or 10 years flying commercially is what I've always wanted to do. As for my personal life and what I should be doing, I'm 19, married and have a son, so I think that what I'm trying to achieve in flying now would be more beneficial then trying to screw random girls. I'm taking college courses, and other than flying, have a part time job. So I have my hands full now. For those of you wondering, I have my CFI checkride in 3 weeks, so its not like I'm completely avoiding that. Its just that only very few people I met want to be a lifetime CFI, the rest are just using it as a time builder. With this said, I have 800 hours and building, so I kind of don't need to be a CFI. Now before all you start yelling at me, I have the utmost respect for CFI's, after all, it was a CFI who taught me to fly.