I'll probably just go back home and try to find a flight instructing job. I'm still low time so just in case i don't get called back i'd like to have some additional hours to make me a little bit more marketable to some other airlines whenever we all get through this.

 

If you decide on continuing a career in aviation, you better start send your resumes outs. Theres about 47 other PSA guys and Colgan guys ext. out there who just lost there jobs too..dont wait last minute. If anybody is hiring, send a resume before its too late...

 

"Hey Mav, you still have that number for that truck driver school?

Yeah, I could be a truck driver..."

 

climbto350, i guess thats a good lead during times like these. Remember though the good jobs worth having are rarely advertised.

 

Bartender, hot women, tax free cash, and a lot of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If I get furloughed, a flying job is out of the question. RECALL will happen guys do something else, explore whats out there!

 

Heyas,

I think this round of furloughs is especially hard for the low time guys.

Traditionally, commuters/regionals never hired with less than around 1500/200 until this last round of hiring (05-07). It was a very rare thing that you saw anyone make that far without a CFI. Anyone who got furloughed at least had part 135 mins, so they could fall back to charter/checks/whatever.

Now the low-time guys are on the street with no CFI to fall back on, and no practical way to make it to part 135 mins. Even if you have a CFI, training these days is a shadow of what it used to be "back in the day".

The only hope is that the vacuum of of CFIs right now can make up for it, but once the training slow down hits (usually 8-10 months after the first furloughs start), it will be tough times there, too.

There is always the "boutique" CFI market (training owners in their own AC for premium $$), but that's a very tough sell for a low timer and doubly so for Gen Y'ers that have been on easy street from the get go.

Nu