Red Forman

The best type rating to get is one that someone else pays for.

pokey9554

I was that 121 guy nobody would hire for whatever reason. To answer your question, I think the CE-500 type is valuable. It covers a bunch of airplanes, and you'll most likely meet insurance requirements for PIC.

UCLAbruins

Correct you started 23 years ago, when things were booming. Now I suppose you have several type-ratings and a good amount of int'l Experience?

Is not that easy anymore, I promise you. We have some members of this forum who fly light bizjets, commuter airliners, etc. For some their goal is to fly long-range bizjets, I bet they don't see things as positive as you do....

Climbto450

I second that!!!

BlackRocket

Thanks for all the great info... Have a 737-800 type with considerable time, is that good for the BBJ? Also, have Beech King Air B-200 time.

Thanks again!

flyboycpa

Your best bet would be to seek out BBJ-work. Your B737 type will cover you for all variants of the 737 (-100 through -900ER). I have a friend that was recently furloughed from a low-cost 737 charter operator. He was typed, with quite a bit of Int'l time. He was picked up fairly quickly doing BBJ work for some royalty group over in the desert. He gets positive-space travel to/from, serves a month-on/month-off schedule, and it paid quite nicely.

I'm a former charter-then-fractional-then-corporate-then-airline guy. Corporate operators normally don't give a rat's a$$ about a 121 guy's experience (or lack thereof). The impression is that 121 guys have never had to make many decisions (flight planning, fuel loading, loading bags, briefing pax, cleaning the crapper, etc.) and have a hard time adjusting to corporate pilot requirements. PLEASE UNDERSTAND...this is not a personal slam at you...only my experience based on years of seeing it firsthand. Many 121 folks have come up through the ranks and know exactly how to do all the above and be a team player. If that's you, then you have to make sure your potential corporate operators understand that.

my $.02

pitch mode

I THIRD that. Let's all go out and get a 50K+ loan for the type rating to fly Mr Wealthy's jet ! Apparently, there are plenty of Falcon 7X drivers on the streets answereing thoses "must be typed,current with 500+ hrs. PIC in Type" job listings. Sooner or later, type rated applicants will thin out and the owner/operator will have to pay for training. If you front your own cash for this, it will be later/never. For the record, I like keeping as much of my money as possible!

Maxspeed

The best ones are paid for by your company!

gold

A friend of mine is flying a CJ part 91 as a co-pilot. He has the SIC rating and about 100 SIC hours in type. He is thinking about paying for his PIC type and was asking for my opinion. I normally would say it's a bad idea but his situation is a little different. He has very little job security and the plane he is flying might be getting sold. He has around 1500 hours and a couple hundred multi. Simcom told him he could do their short course and upgrade the SIC type to a PIC for 11K. What do y'all think about this? I told him to go for it, but it would be a total gamble if the ROI would pay off.

GlobalEx

What is the reason he is wanting the PIC type? With the SIC rating and 100 hours of time I think that he would be as valuable to a company with a CJ as a guy who is typed, use the SIC and time to get a job and let the company pay for the type..
Just my opinion.