In this thread I hope to turn a new leaf in aviation. Little about me, 700 TT commercial single engine land and sea, and multi engine land (25 hours). I can't hear them say have you thought about flight instructing to build more time for us to hire you anymore. My simple answer is always that I have no more money to put into my career. Which is very true having a family these days. I'm in enough student loan dept as of now why did the hole deeper?

Have any of you had an instructor that only did it to build time so they could have that dream job of living out of a suitcase flying a big bus for the airlines? I have and wasted money for lousy instruction. I find it crazy that the FAA allows us to instruct at 200 TT but to fly VFR part 135 we need 500 and 1200 for IFR. I didn't know this fact until I was by far into my training and career that's why I put it here. There is something missing here in the regs. It doesn't add up. Qualified to teach someone how to fly but on the other hand not qualified enough to bring a bag from one place to another for hire is backwards.

I respect the job of flight instructing and I believe there are few that can take on this job. It takes a certain person for this job and is not for everyone. If you intend to join the major airline and are flight instructing just to get that magic number of flight time then consider other means of building flight time.

I believe in parts of Europe they are beginning to turning a new leaf in the airlines. Can anyone say if it has started here in the US? It is training programs that take the private pilot that wants to go to the airliners and starts crew management from that point on. Gosh, it would sure loosen some strings out here for the pilots not looking for that airline job. Let's go on two different paths to give us what we want sooner than it has been such as fighting over jobs just for single engine flight time when your goal is flying with a crew. I was the only odd ball in my class that did not want to go to the majors so not expecting much difference on this forum and finding that single engine non flight instructing job is a like trying to cross Bourbon street on Madi Gras day in New Orleans. Lets put the party on two streets so everyone can play what they somewhat want to play. Anymore ideas?