a.moore wrote:
mgkluft wrote:
Only 3,000 hrs and $ 40,000 to go.
Easy way to save money - get a job in aviation. You get your fix and you make money.
Making money in aviation is a long term strategy.. It doesn't happen quick.
pilot joke... how do you know there's a pilot a party?... they tells you!!
Might as well join the party.. stumbled on this thread reading the site.. Pilot here..
Started loading bags for a float plane company when I was 18 till 2004 while I was in university.. the bottom fell out of the industry after 911 and I took a course in aircraft structures and immediately got work in helicopter repair fixing bell 212s and 214s while I finished my degree. As soon as I was done school in 2005 I had a job lined up in Stony rapids SK as a ramp and dockhand. in the winter I was back in the hanger doing structures on the companies fleet of beavers, otters, twin otters, Navajos, C310, Beech 1900, Saab 340s and BAE31 jetstream.. After the winter in the Hanger, they put me right seat in a Piper Navajo.. a year later promoted to Capt..
The first 1500 hrs were hard work and the learning curve steep, but the doors opened up and I was flying Metroliners and Caravans in Vancouver on night cargo soon enough after two years in the sub arctic. Did that gig for two years until he 3am wake ups got old, and then took a 2 week on 2 week off medivac job in the Canadian Arctic flying Capt on a Beech200.. once I was around the 3000 hr mark, the airlines started calling. managed to get an interview with the nations regional airline.. but never told them I recently got my airline transport license, which was a condition... I guess I didn't want the job that bad. Also interviewed at the nations flag carrier in 2011, but told them I was taking another job... I didn't get hired and never reapplied... No regrets at all.. as I'm still with the same company for 6 yrs and living a great life in Halifax.