Originally Posted by
freezingflyboy
Here is something I think a lot of folks don't really realize. If you jump at the first thing that comes along (which you will have to at 250 hours) you will more than likely end up at a crappy company like Pinnacle, TSA or Mesa. OK, great, you're at that 121 gig building your time in a nice shiny jet telling your friends back at the flight school how great life is. But a year in you realize what a sh!thole you are at and decide to jump ship to SkyWest, XJT or AWAC. Now while you were off trying to find a cure for your SJS, your buddy waited 6 months to build time CFIing before going directly to one of the better companies. Now he is 6 mos ahead of you on the seniority list, will upgrade before you do, has a smaller risk of being furloughed and maybe has paid off some debt while you were acquiring it with moving expenses, uniform expenses, luggage and flight cases, etc etc. Who made the better decision?
Don't buy that argument, sorry. There are enough guys who've done the CFI time still very happy to get on with those other airlines. When it comes down to it, guys who CFI just to build time only do it to pass time until they can get on somewhere. They are gone as soon as they get a job, regardless if it is an "upper class" regional. Your CFI friend is likely going to have asked you if you'd walk a resume in for him, even if he got the other job. Maybe now he'll walk one in for you. You make connections, help friends out... it's how the buisiness works.
And I doubt he made any more as a CFI than you did at the first regional, except now you have more part 121 experience than him...
