wmuflyboy

Who said we were telling him to choose a new career. We didnt say thtat. If anything, we suggested to rhe OP that he stick with it until he has some more flight time.

My problem is you dont want to instruct anymore but yet you dont want to find other ways to build experience. You want to fly something bigger and faster. Notice how you phrased it. Started with wanting to fly a King air or Pilatus but a Seneca or Baron would be ok too. When I was instructing I was pumped if I flew our Seneca. And I would see the Pilatus or King Air on the field and dream. Your mentality is all wrong. Im all about people going after their dreams and I did not mean my post to sound as harsh as it did so Im sorry about that. If you find something with 500 hours then good for you and consider yourself lucky. Theres is nothing wrong with throwing out resumes and keeping in touch until you reach whatever hours they want. But if you are gonna quit instructing then you need to be putting resumes into skydiving places or aerial survey places, not corporate places.

CEFO

Exactly. Besides, the most fun ive ever had in a plane was bushwacking in the mighty cessna 210! Who wants to miss out on the experience. Easy to say in hindsight but the first few years of operational flying is so important to consolidate what youve learned at flight school.

Keep instructing, fly jumpers, go to alaska are your realistic options at 550 hours. There is no reason you cant keep looking for that corporate gig while you do these other jobs. Go get some stories under your belt, they will come in handy on an interview day. Something else to consider is upgrade time at a corporate gig. I used to fly a citation 2 for a company who's insurance company required that the PIC have a minimum of 4000 hours total time (not sure how standard this is). So if you get the corporate gig tommorrow and you fly *maybe* 300 hours a year your upgrade will be at least a decade away. Go and fly your ass off, get some experience, keep networking. the jobs will still be there.

brokeasdope

"Bro you claim a "passion for flying" but flew 150 hrs in 2.5 years ? That is like 5 hours a month."

Please tell me how I'm going to afford to fly more!? Buy time!? See user name!

"When the ATP rule kicks in for airlines he will be shy of the 1500 hours required for that occupation with no efficient way to get it."

Who said I wanted to go to the airlines!? See note about not wanting to fly to the same 30 airports for the rest of my career.

"Now we have 300 hour wonders who "prefer" a KA350 but "will take" a Baron job."

How many corporate execs are cruising around in Barons!? I was going with what's more popular. Remember supply and demand!?

I apologize for asking for advice from the all holy employed pilots. I will now go back to hunting around blindly and going off of prayer alone. I'm sorry your life sucks, apparently everyone elses' has to as well.

satpak77

OK. bye now

wmuflyboy

There is nothing wrong with asking for advice. Sometimes I think these boards are harsh as well. But some of it is indeed reality my friend. If you get there, you are going to be flying with Captains that have this exact same demeanor. You are gonna be flying with people that hate their jobs and try to bring you down too. Im sorry but that last paragraph there is just bad. You can take that attitude and go somewhere else.

USMCFLYR

I can agree with your disposition that instructing might not be for you; but this attitude that you are portraying for what is, in the end, accurate advise spells trouble for you. Is this how you expect your students to take constructive criticism too?

USMCFLYR

tzadik

ya he got sour towards the end but at the beginning he was a enthusiastic newbie asking for advice only to have his passion questioned, referred to as entitled, and told he'd be better off in a different career...

trying to get on at a low time regional might be the best option for time building. i understand 121 might not be your end game, but taking a gig in the right seat of a 145 at 550TT is a good gig.

CEFO

Wow that was fast.

hc0fitted

I was on your side originally, being a low timer myself being able to move on to something "better". I was at 750TT (500 of that was dual given). Was "teaching" my favorite thing in the world to do no not really. However, I did enjoy sharing the same passion of aviation I have with another person (my students) watching them grow as a aviator as I myself grew at the same . At the end of the day I was still doing something I loved everyday getting in a airplane and going flying. Better than working at Target 9-5.

But then you you kept talking.......

When someone questioned you flying 150 hours in 2.5 years your exact response was "Please tell me how I'm going to afford to fly more!? Buy time!? See user name!" Dude are you serious ? You are a CFI why the hell are you talking about paying for flight time? If weren't getting the flight time where you were. Duh..... go elsewhere.... If you continued to fly 5 hours a month for 2 1/2 years it is pretty clear you didn't care to much about flying but now all of a sudden you want a corporate job ???

As loopy as this may sound there are some airlines that do fly to more than 30 airports . We have almost that many destinations in Mexico alone at my employer. Not sure how many airports you think you will be flying to when you land that SIC PC-12 job .

I guess you have it all figured out good luck ...

wmuflyboy

Was this sarcastic? I hope so...