dmspilot

I am aware of that. You think about it. Which is better for your business reputation, passing successful applicants or failing them and charging them a second time?

JohnBurke

Neithere affect my business reputation. Yours?

VacancyBid

There was a period where 1500 hours was magic and the moment you hit that, you had a regional job and that started the race to the next magic threshold where a heartbeat would get you a major job.
That period has ended, probably forever.

So I would push back on the big rush. Get your CFI. It's a big deal, it's useful, it looks good on a resume. CFII is less of an issue. Take however many months you need. The gold rush is over and realistically you're probably looking at 10 years to get to a major. There's PLENTY of retirements coming and the majors are going to be hiring indefinitely but they're gonna be hiring people with PIC in jets over 50K lbs. And those jet jobs are gonna be hiring FO's with significant experience as well.

You're playing a long game. Figure out how to build a resume that United is going to like in 2035.

Bahamasflyer

JB....YOU are the one with a reading comprehension problem. Dmspilot meant "yours" as in 3rd person, not YOU. Are you purposely trying to be antagonistic or are you just ignorant??

Tell us...which is it? Because it's absolutely one or the other.

JohnBurke

Dmspilot didn't say "yours." I did.

You have a reading problem. Try thicker glasses.

However, failing a student does not impact an examiners "business reputation. His is not supposed to be a "businss." He's a designated representative for the FAA with a captive clientellee who must pay him to do what tax dollars are already paing the FAA inspector to do.

What a designated examiner does have is a massive conflict of interest: taking money to give an "impartial" evaluation of performance to practical standards. The Scottsdale FSDO revoked the designee status of a significant number of their inspectors years ago, becasue the inspectors were raking in the bucks failing students several times on every checkride. Not a business, but certainly a racket, and they'd been getting away with it for years. Thy had a wonderful captive clientele: a nearly endless supply of foreign students who frequently failed their private, commercial, instrument, and multi-engine ratings, multiple times, with the examiner collecting a fee every time.

trip

If you have the money rent, buy or borrow a plane and take several long cross-country flights. Do a coast-coast and back. Take a roundtrip to Alaska and and back through Canada. You will learn and apply more skills then you would flight instructing or bouncing around the pattern for a year.