Should I leave my CFI job?
09-13-2018, 09:43 AM
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Should I leave my CFI job?
I'm currently a CFI with about 900 hours and I really want to move on to something else. MY ultimate goal is to get to a regional. I'm building about 80-90 hours a month, but was thinking of applying to planesense or tradewinds. I've been a CFI for only 6 months, so I may burn bridges by leaving. Is leaving a bad idea at my current stage? Should I stick it out another 7-8 months and then go right to the regionals?
09-13-2018, 12:12 PM
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If your goal is regionals ASAP, then leave if you’ll fly more than 80 to 90 hours a month (which I doubt). Stay if you’ll fly less. It’s 7 months! That’s freaking nothing, you can stand on your head in a bucket of feces for 7 months. Start taking the long view when making these decisions...
If you don’t care about how quick you get to the airlines, then by all means, change it up, live a bit.
If you don’t care about how quick you get to the airlines, then by all means, change it up, live a bit.
09-13-2018, 01:54 PM
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Stay with the flight instruction gig. After indoc and training delays you will lose 80hrs of flight time. I did what you were talking about and it has slowed me way down. You probably wont fly as much as you are now. Trust me I am some guy on the interwebs.
09-13-2018, 02:51 PM
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What sort of time are you getting? Not just the AMOUNT but the quality? Is it all day VFR pattern and local area work? All SE? Or are you getting ME time and instrument instruction, and a reasonable amount of night and cross country?
These things do make a difference.
Generally speaking, yeah if you are building 85-90 hours a month you probably aren't going to get to the mins for a regional very much quicker anywhere else, and some of the places you think you might want to go might hit you with a training contract that would just slow you up that much more, but you might be able to find flying in your current job that buffs up that resume a little.
Yeah, I know, six months ago everybody was so desperate they'd take anyone with a pulse, and 7 months from now it might be the same way, but right now the summer surge is over and everyone can afford to be more picky.
Don't pass up an opportunity to get as much meaningful experience as you can out of your present jobs.
It ain't just the hours that count.
These things do make a difference.
Generally speaking, yeah if you are building 85-90 hours a month you probably aren't going to get to the mins for a regional very much quicker anywhere else, and some of the places you think you might want to go might hit you with a training contract that would just slow you up that much more, but you might be able to find flying in your current job that buffs up that resume a little.
Yeah, I know, six months ago everybody was so desperate they'd take anyone with a pulse, and 7 months from now it might be the same way, but right now the summer surge is over and everyone can afford to be more picky.
Don't pass up an opportunity to get as much meaningful experience as you can out of your present jobs.
It ain't just the hours that count.
09-13-2018, 03:44 PM
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Good god. Six months and already slathering to climb the curtain? The millennial urge to have it all now certainly is strong.
You're flying ninety hours a month. You won't find anything else that will advance your agenda faster, and it's still not good enough?
You're flying ninety hours a month. You won't find anything else that will advance your agenda faster, and it's still not good enough?
09-13-2018, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke
Good god. Six months and already slathering to climb the curtain? The millennial urge to have it all now certainly is strong.
You're flying ninety hours a month. You won't find anything else that will advance your agenda faster, and it's still not good enough?
You're flying ninety hours a month. You won't find anything else that will advance your agenda faster, and it's still not good enough?
This generation has get hired because seniority is everything, especially so they can retire at 40!
GF
09-13-2018, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
John,
This generation has get hired because seniority is everything, especially so they can retire at 40!
GF
This generation has get hired because seniority is everything, especially so they can retire at 40!
GF
Thank heaven that we have Millennial International, or they might not survive.
09-18-2018, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke
Good god. Six months and already slathering to climb the curtain? The millennial urge to have it all now certainly is strong.
You're flying ninety hours a month. You won't find anything else that will advance your agenda faster, and it's still not good enough?
You're flying ninety hours a month. You won't find anything else that will advance your agenda faster, and it's still not good enough?
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