View Poll Results: Which is more marketable 737 or Airbus type?
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Boeing or Airbus type?
01-23-2020 | 08:30 PM
#41
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You're not going to fail. Nobody is going to ask you questions in an interview. Just get the extra feather in your cap.
If they did ask a question, you'd just tell them the truth and about your limited experience. Totally understandable to take advantage of the benefits you earned by serving our country and for that we thank you.
Too much smoke and shade in this room. Get off the conspiracy theories. He's just paying for training and bettering himself.
If they did ask a question, you'd just tell them the truth and about your limited experience. Totally understandable to take advantage of the benefits you earned by serving our country and for that we thank you.
Too much smoke and shade in this room. Get off the conspiracy theories. He's just paying for training and bettering himself.
01-24-2020 | 05:56 AM
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OP, your resume looks like it's very hire-able as is. Adding a type rating is not going to make your more marketable and it risks a bad day on a checkride that would make it worse. I'd spend your use it or loose it money somewhere else.
01-24-2020 | 07:26 AM
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"I already have a seaplane rating. I have every rating available in both helicopter and fixed wing including all the instructor ratings as well. I had considered learning to fly a blimp but the only way you can do that is through an employer and commit to a training contract. But I specifically want something that will further my career.
I just want to add on another type rating and since a major is most likely my next stop (god help us all) doing a boeing or airbi makes the most sense."
01-24-2020 | 08:49 AM
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I would have the same issue doing it through an employer. The difference here is I don't have the stress of a employment training event. This is just like going to get my private. And I don't have to deal with a 2x and you're unemployed. I can do this on my time off and take my time getting ready.
Either way I face the same challenge. The ONLY difference is that I am doing it on my own vers doing it through an employer. It's still the same check ride and I can focus on just learning the airplane rather than a specific airlines way of doing things. Then once I have the type it's just a matter of learning how to do it the way the airline wants me to. I'll already know all the systems and have passed the check ride making the employment training fairly simple.
Either way I face the same challenge. The ONLY difference is that I am doing it on my own vers doing it through an employer. It's still the same check ride and I can focus on just learning the airplane rather than a specific airlines way of doing things. Then once I have the type it's just a matter of learning how to do it the way the airline wants me to. I'll already know all the systems and have passed the check ride making the employment training fairly simple.
01-24-2020 | 12:23 PM
#47
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is it the same check ride though? I would assume a check ride outside of the airline world would resemble more of a complex appendix H type ride vs the more simplistic AQP program in the airline world. I have no experience to know if that's true or not though. Just a thought
01-25-2020 | 05:16 AM
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I already have a seaplane rating. I have every rating available in both helicopter and fixed wing including all the instructor ratings as well. I had considered learning to fly a blimp but the only way you can do that is through an employer and commit to a training contract. But I specifically want something that will further my career.
I just want to add on another type rating and since a major is most likely my next stop (god help us all) doing a boeing or airbi makes the most sense.
I just want to add on another type rating and since a major is most likely my next stop (god help us all) doing a boeing or airbi makes the most sense.
01-25-2020 | 05:30 AM
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Av8tr1,
I am in the same boat as you. I had my full Post-9/11 GI Bill after leaving the service and have every rating (airplane, seaplane, helicopter, glider, instructor, etc.). I went ahead and got my master's degree and *STILL* have about half my benefit left. I thought about getting a type rating, too, but ultimately decided that getting a second master's degree is about the only worthwhile endeavor at this point.
I am in the same boat as you. I had my full Post-9/11 GI Bill after leaving the service and have every rating (airplane, seaplane, helicopter, glider, instructor, etc.). I went ahead and got my master's degree and *STILL* have about half my benefit left. I thought about getting a type rating, too, but ultimately decided that getting a second master's degree is about the only worthwhile endeavor at this point.
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