Why did you wait so long? :'(
May I ask what school you went to?
It's not really that I "waited", per se, it's just that it took a while to get where I'm at. If I could go back and do it over, I'd do some things differently (like just become a friggin' doctor
)
The longer story:
I took a couple years off after High School (class of '91) and basically did nothing. I was really sick of school. Decided that didn't pay so well, and went to college. Did a year at community college, then went to Arizona State. Graduated December, 2000. I got all my initial training (private, inst, comm, CFI, CFII, multi) done with student loan money, and they kinda ration it out, so I was at ASU for 5 years.
Soon after graduation, I moved to Detroit and got an instructor job. Then a few months later 9/11 happened, and I didn't fly for almost 2 years. I couldn't find anyone hiring where I lived. So I moved to Texas, and eventually got a couple more CFII jobs, and had finally racked up over 1,000 hours. But I couldn't get in anywhere that had a twin and I'm really short on multi hours. And honestly, I was getting tired of instructing. And tired of being broke.
So I borrowed some money from a good friend that I met while instructing in Texas and went to Regional Airline Academy back in Arizona. They have a partnership with CAE in Denver, which is where I got the type rating. I figured it would be the best way to get in the door with the regionals. I suppose I could have bought a ton of hours in a Duchess or whatever and then tried to apply to the regionals, but I've heard of people with less than 50 multi hours getting hired with the type rating.
So that's my boring story.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:08 pm
Wish I was there.... *dreams*