Working Overseas...
 

Hello fellow pilots... I'm pretty new to this forum, actually, this is my first post. Lol.
Well let me get to the point, I'm at a part 141 school right now and am expected to graduate this coming spring with a Bachelor Degree in Aviation - Professional Pilot. I currently have my Commercial License with Instrument and Multi rating. I'm currently working on getting my Turbine Rating and CFI in spring. My native language is English, but I'm very fluent in Vietnamese. I currently have around 250hrs and should be expecting to get up to around 300 hrs by the time I graduate. I really interested in working oversea, preferbly around Asia. I don't know much about steps in working oversea, but since I'm about to graduate, just looking for the next step. I'm hoping to hear some great ideas from you fellow pilots to help me follow my dream. Thanks

Funkayboi83

Step 1.. finish your CFI and go instruct for another 1200 hours


Hopefully by then you will have close to ATP minimums, and some of the airlines will be hiring again. Even if you get hired, you are a minimum of 6-7 years from even having the minimum requirements for seeking those type of jobs, and that's considering you can move up and get typed on a 737 or 320 and actually have some time on it.

Some basically, I will probably be teaching for around 3-5 years before evening going out of the country. Thanks for your input

Well, for those of us that have the time and the types, how does all of this work? I know each contract is different and aparently you can negotiate with the recruiters, but are the deals out there really sweet as they sound? A lot of this almost sounds too good to be true, and you know what Mama always said about that. Also...how is the China and Vietnam work? I know the Kazakstan stuff is pretty rough, and the India stuff is lacking in the sanitation, or so I'm told. Just trying to get a rough outline of what my family and I may possibly be in for.

We have ramped up the Cadet recruitment at Cathay. That may be a faster route for you even though you have licenses already. You'd skip instructing and be based in Hong Kong after training. Worth checking out in your situation.

Can non hong kong residents apply for the cadet program at CX? That's where I want to end up at some point.

A great way to see the world, and experience different cultures. I would not trade the experience for the world… wait… I’ve lived all over the world:D.

It has been opened up to anyone now, not just HK residents. However, they would still like to see a tie or good reason for you to come to Hong Kong.

A good example of my best mate. He started in Africa after getting himself about 300 hours. Botswana on the C206. A year there and he went to the C208. A year later he went to another company on the C208, and within six months was on the ATR42. A year later he was on a B737NG, and at the time they paid him during the training, and they paid for the rating. MAybe a bit tough to get that these day's, but with a little bit of direction (from people who knew) he moved along really pretty quick.

PNG (Papau New Guinee) is another place to look if you're low time.

Jet job's in China and Vietnam will require a good amount of time, including on type, at the moment at least.