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Re: Advice for a newbie
First thing, change your handle.
Second, finish your training and then start looking for a job. It’s the only formula there is through good and bad. It’s bad now but there is always good that follows, so keep at it until you gain entry and do what you need to in the meantime.
Patience and persistence.
Second, finish your training and then start looking for a job. It’s the only formula there is through good and bad. It’s bad now but there is always good that follows, so keep at it until you gain entry and do what you need to in the meantime.
Patience and persistence.
Re: Advice for a newbie
The best routes may revert back to starting in tradition ways. CFI to light twin. Dockhand to float pilot. Build some time then on to charter/ medivacs. The days when low time guys got right seats in the airlines are a memory for now. It might come back quicker then I think, but I have a number of friends on long recall lists. Get your foot in the door somewhere and carefully consider any moves forward that may burn the bridge you might be on. Always leave on good terms. Honour bonds and terms of your contract. That has bit a few guys I know.
Re: Advice for a newbie
I find your handle funny. I guess irony is lost to some....
My advice may be dated, but move somewhere with a high pilot low population ratio (Yellowknife, Thompson, etc). If you can’t get a ramp job, get a job in a town where there is an opportunity for ramp work.
By the time that you’re 25 this will hopefully be behind us.
My advice may be dated, but move somewhere with a high pilot low population ratio (Yellowknife, Thompson, etc). If you can’t get a ramp job, get a job in a town where there is an opportunity for ramp work.
By the time that you’re 25 this will hopefully be behind us.
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Re: Advice for a newbie
My observations after 33 + years in commercial aviation
For those pilots who obtain a CPL:
40 % never worked as a pilot
30% worked as a pilot but gave up and left aviation within 5 years
30% had or are having a full career as a pilot
Aviation is a cruel mistress demanding much and often giving little in return. The 30 % who stuck it out all really wanted to fly more than anything else and stuck it out through thick and thin until they made it. The rest were poseurs or not fully invested in flying and gave up as soon as things got hard.
It is very important to understand that the commercial aviation environment of 2018 and 2019 where many pilots went straight from a C 172 to a regional jet was an aberration which had never occurred before and is very unlikely to occur again. Instead we have returned to the traditional model where pilots work their way up the aviation food chain from ramp or instructor to right seat in a small aircraft to left seat in a small aircraft and then to the airlines/corporate; or go from dock to part time float pilot to full time pilot to full time on a larger turbine float plane.
So the reality is a lot of early slogging making very little money and probably living in a place whose first name starts with Saint, Fort, or Lake. But everyone I know that really, really, really wanted to make their living flying airplanes made it to a good job.
Finally you must understand that flying schools sell flight training. You will learn how to fly, not learn how to get a job flying
For those pilots who obtain a CPL:
40 % never worked as a pilot
30% worked as a pilot but gave up and left aviation within 5 years
30% had or are having a full career as a pilot
Aviation is a cruel mistress demanding much and often giving little in return. The 30 % who stuck it out all really wanted to fly more than anything else and stuck it out through thick and thin until they made it. The rest were poseurs or not fully invested in flying and gave up as soon as things got hard.
It is very important to understand that the commercial aviation environment of 2018 and 2019 where many pilots went straight from a C 172 to a regional jet was an aberration which had never occurred before and is very unlikely to occur again. Instead we have returned to the traditional model where pilots work their way up the aviation food chain from ramp or instructor to right seat in a small aircraft to left seat in a small aircraft and then to the airlines/corporate; or go from dock to part time float pilot to full time pilot to full time on a larger turbine float plane.
So the reality is a lot of early slogging making very little money and probably living in a place whose first name starts with Saint, Fort, or Lake. But everyone I know that really, really, really wanted to make their living flying airplanes made it to a good job.
Finally you must understand that flying schools sell flight training. You will learn how to fly, not learn how to get a job flying
