Ways to build time after seasoning?
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Ways to build time after seasoning?
A little background: Got picked up by a guard unit and sent to IFT and UPT with no flight experience and I'm currently in phase 3 with not much to go. Told myself back when I got hired that I wasn't going to think about how to gain flight time after seasoning, until I was almost done with UPT. Well, I'm almost there now and I feel it's time to start figuring out what to do after seasoning is up.
I could try bumming and volunteering, but there's quite a few bums and not that much flying to go around, granted things could change by the time I get through the school house. I won't have enough time for a R-ATP, so the regionals are out of the question, heck I won't even have enough time for 135 gigs. CFI perhaps? I'm just trying to get a feel for what's out there and what it's going to take to get the experience required for a regional. I'm married with no kids and have a very flexible civilian gig. I'd really appreciate some advice and opinions.
I could try bumming and volunteering, but there's quite a few bums and not that much flying to go around, granted things could change by the time I get through the school house. I won't have enough time for a R-ATP, so the regionals are out of the question, heck I won't even have enough time for 135 gigs. CFI perhaps? I'm just trying to get a feel for what's out there and what it's going to take to get the experience required for a regional. I'm married with no kids and have a very flexible civilian gig. I'd really appreciate some advice and opinions.
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That's how a lot of us with strat air background got the bulk of our hours post-9/11. Not necessarily a deployment but TDY perpetually on back to back 2-3 week trips sometimes with 12 hours off in between. Yeah, it sucked but I have a decent amount of flight time to show for it.
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Joined APC: May 2010
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A little background: Got picked up by a guard unit and sent to IFT and UPT with no flight experience and I'm currently in phase 3 with not much to go. Told myself back when I got hired that I wasn't going to think about how to gain flight time after seasoning, until I was almost done with UPT. Well, I'm almost there now and I feel it's time to start figuring out what to do after seasoning is up.
I could try bumming and volunteering, but there's quite a few bums and not that much flying to go around, granted things could change by the time I get through the school house. I won't have enough time for a R-ATP, so the regionals are out of the question, heck I won't even have enough time for 135 gigs. CFI perhaps? I'm just trying to get a feel for what's out there and what it's going to take to get the experience required for a regional. I'm married with no kids and have a very flexible civilian gig. I'd really appreciate some advice and opinions.
I could try bumming and volunteering, but there's quite a few bums and not that much flying to go around, granted things could change by the time I get through the school house. I won't have enough time for a R-ATP, so the regionals are out of the question, heck I won't even have enough time for 135 gigs. CFI perhaps? I'm just trying to get a feel for what's out there and what it's going to take to get the experience required for a regional. I'm married with no kids and have a very flexible civilian gig. I'd really appreciate some advice and opinions.
Enjoy this time. I was you once. All I wanted was to get to the next step. Now that I am at where I wanted to be long term, I would kill to be a 20 something flying all over the world with other 20 something's in the herc. Nothing comes close to those memories/type of flying.
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It's not a trip machine unit for sure, and based on what some of the new copilots are telling me, things are a little slow. I'm absolutely willing to deploy with whoever has a spot open. Would I also be able to pick up trips with other units? Or is this just an option for deployments?
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Joined APC: May 2010
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It's not a trip machine unit for sure, and based on what some of the new copilots are telling me, things are a little slow. I'm absolutely willing to deploy with whoever has a spot open. Would I also be able to pick up trips with other units? Or is this just an option for deployments?
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