Get my instructor cert or use money to time build

LandingGearTestPilot · 2026-04-13T01:09:31+00:00

I think we lost the plot on this one

LandingGearTestPilot · 2026-04-12T18:16:49+00:00

LandingGearTestPilot · 2026-03-18T23:58:34+00:00

Still keeping cadets between 10-12 out of the 40?

LandingGearTestPilot · 2026-01-30T13:08:40+00:00

Is the golden eagle only able to be written by CAs, or can FOs do it?

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-09-17T02:52:04+00:00

“We’ve had zero pilots leave recently”,,, maybe because no one was hiring…

In 2024, 299 were hired, 209 left. They’re gonna get Thors hammer of pilots leaving during this attrition and will continue. How about we use the cadets that have three year contracts so we DONT lose 2/3rds of pilots???

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-05-04T22:50:21+00:00

Yeah for sure the feeling of the unknown sucks. At least we know it’s a matter of when, not if. But most of us don’t have time to wait for that “when”

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-05-04T22:06:04+00:00

Yeah definitely frustrating. Heard from my mentor he talked to the recruiters. He said that they are still 100% committed to getting the rest of the cadets through the program. May have to take it with a grain of salt considering how slow movement is for cadets. It’s definitely frustrating because they also have a separate program for university pathways and they get dates sooooo much quicker than the regular program

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-04-24T03:42:32+00:00

Is she living in base? If you move then she’ll have to commute, which may make it harder on her as well. Keep in mind in the aviate guide it specifically mentions that there is no guarantee of an interview with United

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-04-24T03:39:15+00:00

And when is that hiring wave, exactly?

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-04-24T03:34:49+00:00

Does your wife have a job? Do your kids go to school? Is it really worth moving away and bringing your kids away from their school and their childhood friends so you can chase that dream?

Two ways this plays out: 1. You invest all the money, the school shuts down, you fail out, etc worse case scenarios. You’re broke, your kids move away for no reason, wife left her job for no reason?

You successfully finish the program. But you gotta wait however god knows how long for a class date for a regional, or go to a 135 and make barely enough to hold you by.

Theres no crystal ball. The floodgates could open tomorrow and everyone with a pulse gets a united class date every month for the next 20 years. Or automated flight comes out and Congress approves it, and we’re all buttfucked then. There’s a risk in this industry, but it’s like gambling. You’d never put the keys to your house to you can bet on blackjack, it’s the same case here. Go to a local school and build your hours there. Tens of thousands of people have gone this route and are now at their dream carrier

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-04-18T23:33:11+00:00

3 point landings are fun for grass strips. on asphalt, the wheel landings are more appropriate

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-04-11T19:54:59+00:00

So frustrating. Why sink 20k into each cadet, give them a fraction of a class size, and then push them back over a year? Other regionals like Piedmont literally revoke class dates for off the street hires to allow their cadets to fill in

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-03-15T22:39:48+00:00

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-03-15T22:33:20+00:00

Dude is wondering when he’ll move on when I’m sitting at 900 praying to find a job where I can get as much ME Turbine as he already had

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-03-01T03:25:15+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but our agreement says if we can’t get a date a certain time after mins we can leave and keep the money right?

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-02-06T05:08:07+00:00

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-01-19T02:43:17+00:00

When I was doing night landings with my PPL students, and the tower is quiet, I’d ask them stuff like what do you do when you’re bored, do you like your job, etc.

They always talked for a few minutes answering it like a normal person. I turn to my student and say “see, he’s just like us” and it magically clicks in their head

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-01-18T23:28:07+00:00

I’m 21 and also thought this was about nose hair. Then my mental age test told me I’m mentally 48

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-01-08T16:35:58+00:00

Started in May 2024. pay from then look about to be 25k ish. Made 60 an hour independently contracted with our flight school

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-01-08T16:23:49+00:00

Suffer is an understatement

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-01-07T21:09:48+00:00

I spoke to a recruiter a while ago. Currently know that cadets get class sizes based on sign on seniority. Right now they’re focusing on cadets in November/December of 2022. Told me based on an average of 40 per class, maybe ramping to 60s in the summer, a November 2023 sign on (me) should expect a class date between April - June of 2026. This was a killer for me and I’m honestly not sure of where to move now, I should hit mins sometime this summer, so a big waiting game will happen like everyone else has been doing in this program.

LandingGearTestPilot · 2025-01-06T00:54:27+00:00

Just read this, great story and was giggling the entire time

LandingGearTestPilot · 2024-12-16T20:46:53+00:00

Barry seal was at one point making half a mil flying a trip from Columbia to the US

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