Originally Posted by
davidhaan
well, it's still a safe bet to build up hours in a single engine, no?
To be honest, not really.
IMO, your ONLY purpose for flying SE airplanes (after you get your ratings) is because you are building seniority at a company which will let you fly twins after you have been there long enough. Commonly you have to work as an ASEL CFI before you can move up to MEI.
Same with regional SIC time...not worth a warm cup of spit, it's just a side effect of waiting for enough seniority to upgrade.
The point I'm trying to make is that you should do your best to get hooked up with an outfit which will allow you to build ME time...especially since congress may mandate that. Don't just build SE time for it's own sake...have a roadmap to a twin.
If you can't get a job at a company which does ME training, plan B would be do ASEL CFI until you have 1200 hours, then go to a 135 outfit as a ASEL pilot. After some period of time, you will move up to twins at which point that ME time will accumulate in a matter of months.