Type rating
12-08-2007, 02:44 PM
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If you're applying for a US carrier, there is no need for a type rating. (Southwest being the exception before you can start class).
If you are overseas or trying to find a corporate job, it's a lot harder (or maybe impossible) to get hired without an applicable type rating.
That said, it never hurts to have more qualifications than other folks. However if you are applying for a regional airline, there really isn't any need since there are fewer and fewer applicants that are willing to put up with the low pay and QOL with each passing month.
If you are overseas or trying to find a corporate job, it's a lot harder (or maybe impossible) to get hired without an applicable type rating.
That said, it never hurts to have more qualifications than other folks. However if you are applying for a regional airline, there really isn't any need since there are fewer and fewer applicants that are willing to put up with the low pay and QOL with each passing month.
12-08-2007, 02:45 PM
#5
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Originally Posted by ctd57
Do not pay for a type rating. The only place I have heard of pilots needing a type before going was Southwest.
I would strongly advise against getting a type otherwise as you won't have any experience in the airplane (which what typically makes you competitive, or not).
12-08-2007, 05:29 PM
#7
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Originally Posted by CL65driver
Take the money you were going to buy a type with and invest it in an IRA. You'll thank yourself when you retire. 
lets play with some numbers here.....
say you are 25 years old and plan to retire at 65 if you take the say $15,000.00 that a type rating will cost and just put that into an IRA that yields on average 9% (mine have been doing 12%) some years will average 13% some will average 6%, you get the idea. By the time you reach 65 years old having contributed NOTHING but the initial investment of the 15 grand you are looking at...
$471,141.00
not too bad huh...and you would want to pay for a type rating that you will get for free anyway why? No one is going to pay for our retirements when we hit the golden years unless we are lucky so start thinking about your future.
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