Build Hours While Employed As An CAFS Instructor
Continental Aero Flying School offers a guaranteed job interview to graduates.* If selected, the graduate can work as a Flight Instructor for the School and get paid while building hours. This option is perfect for students needing to build time before becoming employed as an airline pilot.
There are a number of paths to an airline piloting career. Regardless of which path you take, you will ultimately need a combination of pilot certificates and ratings, flight experience, and a great attitude and you will need to build flight experience. One constructive way to do so is to obtain a Certified Flight Instructor certificate. This will allow you to use your new skills to train other pilots while enhancing your own skills and knowledge, building flight experience, and doing so while earning money. Other options for building single-engine flight time include flying for small cargo operators, crop dusting, pipeline inspecting, or “traffic watch” for local radio stations, etc. Once you have acquired a few hundred hours of flight time, it will be time to attempt to get a multiengine flying job. These are more challenging to obtain because the insurance requirements on the operators are more stringent. That is where having a good number of single-engine flight hours will be helpful. We cannot recommend strongly enough the need to network with other pilots who are one or two steps ahead of you. The single greatest way to achieve employment in aviation is through the recommendation of a pilot currently employed with the operator where you are applying. Because operators are entrusting their pilot work force with expensive aircraft and the lives of their passengers, character recommendations are almost, if not as important as flight experience. The airline piloting career is a superb way to make a living. We wish each of you the best in your endeavour.
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Experiance & Hiring after the course
After receiving your pilot licenses and ratings, you will need to build flight experience. One constructive way is to obtain a Certified Flight Instructor certificate. This will allow you to use your new skills to train other pilots, which should enhance your own skills and knowledge while building your flight experience and earning some money. Other options for building single-engine flight time include flying for local radio traffic stations, small cargo operators, crop dusting operators, pipeline inspecting operators, etc. Once you have acquired a few hundred hours of flight time, you can start applying for multi-engine flying jobs. These are more challenging to obtain because the insurance requirements on the operators are more stringent.
That’s where having a good number of single-engine flight hours will be helpful. CAFS highly recommends that you network with other pilots who are one or two steps ahead of you. The single greatest way to achieve employment in aviation is through the recommendation of a pilot currently employed where you want to work. Because airlines entrust their pilot work force with expensive aircraft and the lives of their passengers, character recommendations are almost as important as flight experience. After deciding which airlines you want to apply with and obtaining these companies’ minimum requirements for employment