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Originally Posted by AirportKid
Is sure hope that my post did not come across as me thinking that I would be ''entitled'' to a job, as I did not think that what so ever. I simply meant to say, that from the information I had attained (obviously false) that it would be difficult, but possible to get picked up at a regional with 600 hours or so. You guys have let me know that will definitely not happen.
I didn't take it as such, and I won't even say it couldn't possibly happen, but I think your current approach is more realistic and puts you in the position for your career goals long term. You don't want to the the guy who did get hired on at a regional with six hundred hours, only to be trapped because you can't get an interview with a major due to the lack of a four year degree (which you've never completed due to your work schedule).
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I think you guys are right and for whatever reason I was just getting confused, and that there is not actually a "CFI for a Commercial Ticket."But then that begs the question, what kind of CFI do you need to be in order to teach Comm students?
Texas CFI - just a "Plano" CFI Certificate. You can also give instrument instruction, just not the 15 hours for the Instrument rating which the FARs (or CFRs if you prefer) require a CFII for. The basic CFI really gets you the most bang for the buck, except that CFII is a very easy add on. MEI is great in that opens a gateway to building multi time - that said I've always maintained that MEI is one of the most dangerous jobs in aviation. If you're going to do it, you should do enough of it to stay razor sharp. I was fortunate and found other opportunities to build multi time and never got mine.
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That's what I was thinking, but from everything that I have read about the time it takes, it wouldn't take any more than a month, which I dont think is to bad.
I'd say you should be able to knock it out in a week or two at the most. The longer you stretch it out, the more time you're going to re-learn each time.
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Take a look at what they offer in the way of courses geared toward Transport category systems and operations, advanced meteorology, aerodynamics, and so on.
All of these were included in the ground school overview that I recieved.
To further elaborate on this idea (particularly the systems portion) - again citing Purdue since that's where I went (my hometown school -> in-state tuition). The approach there was not only to cover the concepts of how the system works, but then to apply that while learning a specific aircraft (in my era, King Air, DC-8, B-727). Not only did this give you the knowledge of how a air cycle machine works, or how the electrical system is structured; but just as importantly it gave us a template for how to learn future aircraft and what knowledge would be expected at an airline. I think this is important, because when you go to FlightSafety or an airline, you're going to have what in our case was (IIRC) two semesters worth of class stuffed into two to three weeks for a typical program. Having learned how to learn was as important as the actual information.
I'm sure there are other ways to achieve the same outcome, but in retrospect I think this approach worked fairly well, so I'd personally look to see if they offer something along those lines - not just a general course covering transport systems, and if so avail myself of that opportunity.