Best way to build time?
06-22-2008, 10:22 AM
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Best way to build time?
Hi Guys,
What is the best way to build time besides forking out a bunch of money for flight time? Once someone has their comm / inst / ME rating...is the next step typically CFI?
How much time does a CFI usually have before he (or she) can become a ME CFI or a CFII?
What is the best way to build time besides forking out a bunch of money for flight time? Once someone has their comm / inst / ME rating...is the next step typically CFI?
How much time does a CFI usually have before he (or she) can become a ME CFI or a CFII?
06-22-2008, 10:40 AM
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I did my Commercial single and multi at 250 hours and immediately started afterwards on the MEI as the initial followed by the CFI single engine add on afterwards. I ended up with 279 when I finished both of those ratings and started building time as a CFI. I was training in CA at the time and was ready for my CFII checkride but ran out of time and moved back here and because of pure lack of time I put off the CFII checkride until I think I had 6 or 700 hours or so although it could have easily have been completed before 285TT.
There is in my book no better way to build time than being in instructor. Other ways to build time that you can grab as a lowtimer but are not as good of experience would be to traffic watch which is typically marginal VFR at worst but you can fly a ton doing it. Dumping parachutist is also a good road towards building time but you will only gain experience in CG calculations and peformance charts.
There is in my book no better way to build time than being in instructor. Other ways to build time that you can grab as a lowtimer but are not as good of experience would be to traffic watch which is typically marginal VFR at worst but you can fly a ton doing it. Dumping parachutist is also a good road towards building time but you will only gain experience in CG calculations and peformance charts.
06-22-2008, 12:04 PM
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I did my Commercial single and multi at 250 hours and immediately started afterwards on the MEI as the initial followed by the CFI single engine add on afterwards. I ended up with 279 when I finished both of those ratings and started building time as a CFI. I was training in CA at the time and was ready for my CFII checkride but ran out of time and moved back here and because of pure lack of time I put off the CFII checkride until I think I had 6 or 700 hours or so although it could have easily have been completed before 285TT.
There is in my book no better way to build time than being in instructor. Other ways to build time that you can grab as a lowtimer but are not as good of experience would be to traffic watch which is typically marginal VFR at worst but you can fly a ton doing it. Dumping parachutist is also a good road towards building time but you will only gain experience in CG calculations and peformance charts.
There is in my book no better way to build time than being in instructor. Other ways to build time that you can grab as a lowtimer but are not as good of experience would be to traffic watch which is typically marginal VFR at worst but you can fly a ton doing it. Dumping parachutist is also a good road towards building time but you will only gain experience in CG calculations and peformance charts.
I wish that I would have learned more about these things before flying for the jump school that I flew for; but they pretty much took me up on a monkey see/monkey do flight and then threw me the keys
I flew for them a few months before moving on to bigger and better things thank goodness. It was interesting at the time but now that I look back I realize that things shouldn't have been done that way. Live and learn.USMCFLYR
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