Airline Pilot Central Forums

Airline Pilot Central Forums (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/)
-   Regional (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/regional/)
-   -   A Question about the hours... (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/regional/25212-question-about-hours.html)

FlyJSH 04-15-2008 03:50 PM

I wouldn't count on CFIing because many companies prohibit any other "for pay" flying .

2000viper52 04-15-2008 03:51 PM

It will be challenging. I see it as a means to an end. Technical recruiting is the perfect P/T job that I could manage from my laptop and hotel room. With a 20 or 25% placement fee and a 40% cut from the house, I could easily see myself placing one engineer a month on a totally P/T basis. At 125K engineer salary, a 20% fee would be 25K and my cut would be 10K. Even one every 2 months would work ok..

2000viper52 04-15-2008 04:06 PM

Doing contract technical recruiting or even compensation consulting would both work perfectly as a flexible, work on the road, job that will fill the bill. I am sick of the work, but I am good at it and can bang out product from a hotel room while listening to Foxnews..

nicholasblonde 04-15-2008 06:19 PM


Originally Posted by 2000viper52 (Post 364751)
Bad day in the cockpit can be a reallllly baadddd day...You kidding me?

Referring to boring aspect of a bad day...Not the technical aspect of a malfunction or error or worse....

The picture of a CRJ cockpit on my laptop is telling me that this is the "office" of my dreams...and I will gladly accept all of the ups and downs that it will entail. I relish the opportunity to become a professional pilot. Chasing the $ has given me nothing but short term satisfaction. I am recently divorced and have given up the big house, S class MBZ the Viper and now want to do what I love for the rest of my career.

Loving flying around in a 152 is one thing, loving 121 regional CRJ FOing in the current industry is another. By the time you finish groundschool, sims, and get off reserve, it WILL be a job, and it WILL be a grind. Just don't waste your money on a jet course at least. And don't fly for GoJet.

soon2bfo 04-15-2008 06:40 PM


Originally Posted by 2000viper52 (Post 364636)
Obviously, getting into a pilot career for the love of the job, NOT the $$$$

Thanks in advance!!!

It is exactly this attitude that is keeping us from earning a good living. Your attitude will change and you will realize you can have both, hopefully some day we all will.

Pilotpip 04-15-2008 07:06 PM

Some of us would like to make a good living doing what we love.

I got into the industry for both thank you, I'd like to improve the $$$ part. Please don't keep bringing this industry down with that attitude.


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 12:57 PM.


Website Copyright © 2026 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands