Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
Sky it is obvious you need to be around pilots on their way up to the big league. It's a more professional mindset and I do not think you are wrong for missing their company. Isn't there a flight college near there? I know you want to remain close to home but there have to be better gigs than making sloppy approaches with ego maniacs. Maybe you could set up a flight school in your back yard and do ATPs and multi add-ons. Keep the 150 and get an Apache to go with it.
Thanks Cubdriver!
I am considering all of those options. The university however is staffed largely by people who have never flown anything bigger than a Cessna 182. As far as I know none of them have any airline experience or professional flying to speak of.
I have applied a few times but they keep hiring academic types without any experience. You know, people who are good at the theory of flight but have never actually done it themselves. I probably would not fit in there either.
In regards to opening a flight school a friend and I are considering exactly that. He is acquiring a Red Bird flight simulator. We are considering trying a light sport academy of some kind. The big challenge however is the decline in flight students. It does not make much sense under the current conditions. A lot of time and money when the projections for the future are not good.
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