What type or plane was it for well over 1000? Is it a Dash8 or a king air? If it’s on king air then that’s probably a bit surprising for me.Heavy Rayn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 5:24 pm Unfortunately if you’re just emailing résumés to the northern companies you likely won’t get a call with 500 hours. I work up here for one of the companies you mentioned and we’re seeing new hires with well over 1000 hours still. You’ll need to do something to stand out and that would be best done in person. I would recommend you complete that trip to the north. 750 hrs will open up a lot more opportunities than 500 will if you’re able to get to that higher number.
I will do the trip.
Frankly I don’t know what to do after the trip. Flying on my own expense for another 250 hours is $25000, an instructor rating cost a bit less than that. And during Oshkosh I’ve talked to Simcom and they said a initial training with them on a PC12 is US$140000, and US$8000 for King air. Maybe completion of type training could help make my resume look better but paying for my own training seems to be cheating… I’ve heard in some people’s opinion paying for own training is unacceptable in some company’s view. Neither seems to be a good option.