View Poll Results: Do you agree with PFJ/PFT
Yay
1
3.45%
Nay
28
96.55%
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll
PFJ/PFT, what say you?
07-20-2010 | 11:47 PM
#12
Day puke
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,865
Likes: 0
From: Out.
listening to those who have been through this industry for a while. PFT/PFJ is bad.
Look, if you have the chance to ride along with a jump pilot for free and maybe learn something, then do it. All flying will teach you something. Just don't put it in your logbook, and don't expect it to get you hired. Truth be told, if I could go for a ride with a jump pilot, I would do it (never worked as a jump pilot, kinda like the idea as a side job, and they probably can teach me something). But I would do it to increase my flying knowledge rather than to circumvent the real way to a good job.
I have paid for training: I have done a few hours of aerobatics to teach me how to handle an aircraft when I am thrown upside down. But that time was for PERSONAL advancement, to make me a better flier, not to get me a job.
I know it is tough when you are just starting out. Heck, it is tough after 12 years of commercial flying. After seven years of single pilot 135 work, going 121 was a challenge. But until you know you have NOT learned everything, you are a hazard.
Just like in romance, no matter how much you think you know, you still have a lot to learn.
Paying for training for a job is not a good thing. Paying for personal enrichment is fine.
I was like you. When I read the regs I thought a dripping wet commercial was good enough. Then the day came when I got flipped by the wake of a 73. Now I know that no matter how much experience I have, there may come a day when it isn't enough. Hopefully on that day, I will have enough experience I can mitigate my shortfalls, keep the plane in the air, and have a safe landing somewhere.
Truly, I feel your pain and wish you well.
Good luck,
j
Look, if you have the chance to ride along with a jump pilot for free and maybe learn something, then do it. All flying will teach you something. Just don't put it in your logbook, and don't expect it to get you hired. Truth be told, if I could go for a ride with a jump pilot, I would do it (never worked as a jump pilot, kinda like the idea as a side job, and they probably can teach me something). But I would do it to increase my flying knowledge rather than to circumvent the real way to a good job.
I have paid for training: I have done a few hours of aerobatics to teach me how to handle an aircraft when I am thrown upside down. But that time was for PERSONAL advancement, to make me a better flier, not to get me a job.
I know it is tough when you are just starting out. Heck, it is tough after 12 years of commercial flying. After seven years of single pilot 135 work, going 121 was a challenge. But until you know you have NOT learned everything, you are a hazard.
Just like in romance, no matter how much you think you know, you still have a lot to learn.
Paying for training for a job is not a good thing. Paying for personal enrichment is fine.
I was like you. When I read the regs I thought a dripping wet commercial was good enough. Then the day came when I got flipped by the wake of a 73. Now I know that no matter how much experience I have, there may come a day when it isn't enough. Hopefully on that day, I will have enough experience I can mitigate my shortfalls, keep the plane in the air, and have a safe landing somewhere.
Truly, I feel your pain and wish you well.
Good luck,
j
