What to do after instructing?
03-07-2014, 10:38 PM
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What to do after instructing?
I'm a low time CFI and would like to do something different. I don't have enough hours to go to the airlines, so is there something I can do in between that isn't instructing? I've been looking but it's been difficult to find anything. Any suggestions?
03-08-2014, 06:30 AM
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Historically, it's always been a little easier to get CFI jobs than traffic watch, pipeline, etc.
Many folks would rather just fly than teach...but the teaching will actually better prepare you for airline hiring and training. It keeps your head in the theory, regs, and IFR system. Just buzzing around VFR won't keep you skills or knowledge sharp. Banner tow requires some stick skill, but it's still not exactly what airlines do.
But in the current market I imagine that 1500 hours of anything FW will get you an interview (make sure you get your XC, etc).
Many folks would rather just fly than teach...but the teaching will actually better prepare you for airline hiring and training. It keeps your head in the theory, regs, and IFR system. Just buzzing around VFR won't keep you skills or knowledge sharp. Banner tow requires some stick skill, but it's still not exactly what airlines do.
But in the current market I imagine that 1500 hours of anything FW will get you an interview (make sure you get your XC, etc).
03-08-2014, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by ClarenceOver
traffic watch aerial imagery banner tow 500TT for insurance purposes.
Aerial imagery -- replaced by Google Earth
Banner tow -- maybe.
If you have a bad CFI gig, search for a better one. Try to work at a busy place with Instrument and Multi-engine instruction.
03-08-2014, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by mike734
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Aerial imagery -- replaced by Google Earth
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Aerial imagery -- replaced by Google Earth
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03-08-2014, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by mike734
Traffic watch -- replaced by traffic cameras and real time telemetry from cell phones.
Aerial imagery -- replaced by Google Earth
Banner tow -- maybe.
If you have a bad CFI gig, search for a better one. Try to work at a busy place with Instrument and Multi-engine instruction.
Aerial imagery -- replaced by Google Earth
Banner tow -- maybe.
If you have a bad CFI gig, search for a better one. Try to work at a busy place with Instrument and Multi-engine instruction.
aerial imagery why does air associates pay their pilots 40k a year?
banner tow.......go to florida.
03-08-2014, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Cubdriver
Firms such as Google and Bing Maps hire SEL airplanes to do this kind of work, it's not satellite generated. The big thing nowadays is low altitude imagery to obtain 3D effects like Bing's "Bird's eye" view, or zoomed in close on Google Maps we see the efforts of light aircraft, since oblique visual data (side views) are only available at low altitude. There are a bunch of jobs doing this sort of work, a few hundred jobs maybe.
Originally Posted by ClarenceOver
traffic watch flew that for 6 months out of addison in dfw
aerial imagery why does air associates pay their pilots 40k a year?
banner tow.......go to florida.
aerial imagery why does air associates pay their pilots 40k a year?
banner tow.......go to florida.
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