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The above is horrible information. Paying for a type rating (especially a SIC) is useless with 168 hours and no job to use it. A PC12 or CJ rating is not cheap and good luck finding someone who will let someone with that little time fly their aircraft. Let's say that you happen to find someone who owns a PC12 and wants you to fly it with them. You then would have to go to PC12 school and spend lots of money. Months later after you finish, you knock on that guy’s door to remind him that he wanted you to fly his aircraft. Even though his insurance company only approved the owner to act as PIC, he decides to risk his insurance policy to help you out. Then for your first real job, the interviewer looks at you logbook and laughs because they see that after 168 hours of training, you are logging PIC time in a PC12 and they ask you to leave thinking your forged your logbook.Originally Posted by 14CFR
My most immediate advice would be to try to acquire some right-seat time in an aircraft certified for single-pilot commercial operations, such that minimal risk and/or cost is added to the operator. If it's in a turbine aircraft, such as a King Air (90, 200, 350, etc.) or Pilatus (PC12) or Cessna Citation CJ1,2,3,4, or other, even better (for you)! These opportunities are most likely unpaid, and under part 91, but are completely loggable if you are rated in the airplane. Also, to obtain an SIC type (another notch on the resume belt, albeit not a very powerfull one) in an aircraft like a CJ3 is very simple, if you do find someone willing to let you occupy the right seat occasionally.
It is more likely you would get hired to sit right seat in a 135 operation that requires two pilots but even that will be difficult. You do not need turbine time, or SIC time, you need PIC time in an aircraft you can realistically fly. Try to get a job instructing, but realize your first students will be sacrificial while you figure out what you are doing (if that does not bother you). You can take this advice, or just listen to the other posters who have just as little time as you and are trying to convince themselves that 168 hours is enough.