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Post icon  Posted 12 January 2009 - 09:11 AM

What are some good companies to apply for after I finish training? Do they require a certain number of hours? what ratings should I have before applying for a corporate pilot job?
I retire from the Army next year and starting my PPL now while still in the Army. Thanks.
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:34 PM

QUOTE (NewPilot @ Jan 12 2009, 09:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What are some good companies to apply for after I finish training? Do they require a certain number of hours? what ratings should I have before applying for a corporate pilot job?
I retire from the Army next year and starting my PPL now while still in the Army. Thanks.


Flight instruct/traffic watch/fly pipe is about it. everyone else usually wants atleast 500 hours. This is assuming that you have no hours as of right now. If you ask me, you have hit the swing at the exact right time. Prepare in the valley so you will be ready at the peak.
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 06:46 PM

QUOTE (mshunter @ Jan 13 2009, 06:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Flight instruct/traffic watch/fly pipe is about it. everyone else usually wants atleast 500 hours. This is assuming that you have no hours as of right now. If you ask me, you have hit the swing at the exact right time. Prepare in the valley so you will be ready at the peak.



What do you mean I hit the swing at the exact right time??
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Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:57 AM

QUOTE (NewPilot @ Jan 12 2009, 06:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What do you mean I hit the swing at the exact right time??


He means that hiring is down. Hiring is cyclical, as is this entire industry. It swings up and down and up and down and up and down......... It's hard to say how long a down swing will last. You don't want to be in a position of having to look for a job in a downswing. It can be incredibly frustrating. You want to be flight training and building experience in a downswing, if not avoiding the entire industry completly. A good corporate job is a career position, and isn't easily attained. You will need your Private, Instrument, Commercial-Single and Multi, and probably your CFI. After building time as a CFI, you will probably attain your first gig with a commercial operation outside of instruction. This will probably involve flying cargo in light piston multi-engine aircraft, flying pipeline patrol in a light aircraft, or possibly a regional airline job. A regional job can be a career in itself. Once you have 3000-4000 hours (with significant turbine time or PIC piston-twin time) you may be able to find an entry-level corporate job flying a King Air, right seat on a small Citation, or smaller corporate aircraft. But, that is given that you get all those hours and we are in a hiring upswing. If we aren't you will be competing with people with thousands and thousands and thousands of hours.

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