Red80

My hours are in a kinda weird spot. I don’t want to get tied down in a long contract anywhere but need more hours to qualify for regionals. 1650 Total Flight Hours
1570 Pilot in Command
115 Multi-Engine
1200 Point-to-Point XC
395 Cross Country
70 Night
70 Simulated Instrument
8 Actual Instrument
Any job suggestions?

JTwift

Why do you need more hours to qualify for regionals?

PerfInit

Wierd spot? Hardly! Your current flight time qualifies you for most (if not all) Regional airlines in the US. What specifically are you concerned about regarding your flight experience?

Excargodog

You are short 30 night hours, but:


So rent a Cessna 152 for five hours and go on a stop and go marathon for a few nights. It'll cost you less than a thousand bucks. Then you can apply to any regional you want in less than a week.

Frozen Ronin

Go to The 135 world in Alaska. Get some real single pilot experience before you loose the opportunity all together. Once you hit the 121 world, you'll never get that kind of boot camp again. Think about it.

Excargodog

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Why practice bleeding if you aren't a local who, granted, has it as part of his/her culture and loves it?

Red80

Short on night hours but don’t really have the money to go buy them. I’m still interested in flying at another company before I go regional but I don’t want to be tied down with a long contract. I guess I’m looking for a good company that fits that mold.

Red80

I like the idea of Alaska flying and have applied to grant but haven’t heard anything back. I like them because they have no contracts and I don’t wanna be tied down too long since I’m only short a few hours. Did you have any specific places in mind?

Excargodog

Seriously? You don't have enough money to rent a Cessna 152 for five hours?

I didn't just MAKE UP the :

(b) A person who has performed at least 20 night takeoffs and landings to a full stop may substitute each additional night takeoff and landing to a full stop for 1 hour of night flight time to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (a)(2) of this section; however, not more than 25 hours of night flight time may be credited in this manner.

That's straight out of CFR › Title 14 › Chapter I › Subchapter D › Part 61 › Subpart G › Section 61.159

Rent the cheapest aircraft you can rent for five hours and do as many takeoffs and landings to a full stop as necessary in that five hours to get yourself up to a total of 45 night takeoffs and landings to a full stop. Then log the five hours and then log the additional 25 hours for each extra takeoff and landing. At night at some not terribly busy airport you'll likely have the pattern to yourself and can get easily get six landings and takeoffs an hour, especially if the field is long enough to do stop and goes.

Don't get me wrong, if you want to go haring off to Alaska to have fun, that's great and I hope you have fun, but just getting there and back is likely to cost you more than 5 hours of Cessna 152 time, and a few months delay at a large regional could easily put you behind another 60-90 guys in seniority.

Your choice.

dera

That sounds like a catastrophic idea. You're seriously considering going through 135 training, having a few jeopardy events, another employer reporting to your PRIA, because you can't afford $500 to rent a 152 for a 5 hours?

I think this is an extreme case of "penny wise, pound foolish".

Let's say Grant calls you and gives you a job in Alaska. You wash out of training. Suddenly you can only work for places like Mesa because of your fresh training failure. Only to save $500.
If you don't have $500. Open a new credit card, pay it off with the signing bonus from your regional.