Best way to build Multi-Engine time?? Any websites to free job postings or employers would be great too!?
I am about to graduate flight school in another month. By the time I finish I will have:
Private Multi-Engine
Instrument Multi-Engine
Commercial Multi-Engine
Commercial Single-Engine
Certified Flight Instructor:
Multi-Engine
Instrument Airplane
Single-Engine
Jet Transition:
High Altitude Endorsement
High Performance Endorsement
200 Hours Logged Time
190 Hours Multi-Engine Time
75 Hours Multi-Engine Cross-Country
65 Hours Multi-Engine Instruction
& Flight Checks
Citation Jet Transition
50 Hours Multi-Engine FTD
I have the oportunity to instruct for the company I went to school at. But they only pay 0/month!! They say most instructors build time with them fast enough that they move on to regionals in 5-6 months. Are there other jobs out there that provide lots of multi-engine to qualify me for regionals, in a reasonable amount of time, that pay half-way decent. I don’t need to make a fortune, but enough to live would be nice. websites??
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Well, $800/mo is probably pretty typical for a flight instructor. Our instructors get $15/hr and fly perhaps 30-40 hours a month, which is $450-600/mo. But, they are part time instructors. You could look to other flight schools to teach at, but most places you’ll be flying singel engine trainers, which doesn’t help your quest for more multi hours. You don’t have a lot of hours, so you won’t qualify for 135 operations (1000 hours total time, if flying a twin many look for 500 hours Multi).
One person I know of built multi time by "cost sharing" trips to Las Vegas. He would offer to fly people to Las Vegas for a week or a weekend. He kept it legal (part 91) by only allowing people to pay their fraction of the cost and by going regardless of how many people show up. So, if only one person, then you split costs in 1/2 and go anyhow. The problem with that idea is that you need a twin available to do this with, which probably means renting one = $$$.
Another possibility is to find a parachuting club that flies a twin and is looking for new pilots. I know one person flying a Twin Otter and kicking jumpers out. As soon as they can load another group into the plane, he’s off again. He probably gets at least 5 hours flight time on a Saturday.
My honest opinion is to stick with your school. If you’ll get paid $800/mo to instruct in twins, that’s the cheapest twin time you’ll probably see for a long time.
Dude, you find anything, please let me know too!. I’m in the same boat. I don’t really want to instruct I’d rather fly, I don’t have as much M/E time but my total time is 350.
That’s the usual route to get there. A friend of mine’s father bought him a 411 to build time in, but that’s a rare thing! Chartering and flying second is about it.
Ahhh….yet another 4 month wonder from ATP. They should sit each of you guys down before you ever enroll (and pay the $50,000) and tell you what the aviation industry is REALLY like. Nobody pays decent for your experience level. And the regionals, well they don’t pay a livable wage either. Thats ok though, you sure will be cool flying a RJ.
My advice is put your time in at a 61 flight school, not at a pilot mill like ATP. You’ll learn alot more.
What ever you do, don’t take a paying job away from another pilot, just so you can build time. That’s what is destroying the business right now. You do that, and you’ll be blacklisted, and destroy your future.
Good Luck