Why are you taking the ATPw with <400 TT?

Good question. Kind of pointless right now.

I took mine at 1100TT.

All very true... especially the part about how tough the training is. Be ready and willing to be in class/studying about 14 hours a day (in my last training evolution, 14 was about average: some maybe 10 and one whacko who was going nearly 20 hours a day).

One word of caution: you had better be near-perfect on your instrument procedures. You will be learing a new aircraft, in a new enviornment (two pilot crew), and probably in much more complicated airspace/ATC; in the sim is no time to puzzle out the entry to a hold.

If you choose to instruct, try to get more of the instrument students. IMHO it is harder and more boring work than the primaries, but it won't take too long until you are able to fly all types of procedure turns and holds in your sleep.

Good advice...........

Ahhh, don't lesson to these guys. What do they know they're just airline pilots? Send your resume in and you could be sitting left seat in a Mesa jet……….in China……….real soon. All you have to do is build some time and I have some advice that will help you build all the time you need and do it cheap. So cheap it will only cost you the price of a pen. Yes just write the times in, Johnny O will never check, he needs pilots to bad. And the Chinese, sure Johnny will gladly send you over there and if you kill a plane full of them..........oh well.............who care, their Chinese, there’s just a billion more of them. :eek: :D :eek:

Disclaimer: PLEASE NOTE SARCASIM, I have several friends who are Chinese and I mean them no disrespect.

Lots of good reasons. It's FAR, WX, W&B and other knowledge he'll need on the line. It's valid indefinitely as long as he's employed 121. Some regionals prefer an ATP written when interviewing and hiring. And it shows initiative, drive and passion for aviation. Do it!

so does gaining enough experience to be a safe, reliable and respectable aviator. most of that "knowledge in theory" is useless on the line anyway, experience is what is valuable out there. So, I agree with the rest of the group trying to send you on the right path, you are not ready.

thank you all for the responses...Just was wondering an overall opinion. I think I'll go back to my Hawker 800 SIC gig, and do that for a bit...

Hell yeah you should go back to your Hawker 800 SIC gig! The regionals can wait man! Go fly the hell out of that Hawker, have a blast and maybe try and learn something every once in a while. Be advised, flying out and backs from ORD, EWR or DFW all day with an 8 hour overnight at the airport hotel in MEM is NOT as glamorous as it sounds. Aviation, like most things, is more about the journey than the destination.