ACP337 Should I Build Hours For The Regionals In My Own Airplane?

Welcome to the Inspirational, Informational, and Transparent Aviation Careers Podcast. In todays’ episode we answer the question: should you build hours for the regionals in a personal plane? But first a few emails from listeners and if you want to skip to a specific question we will have the times in the show notes.

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Correction From Last Video

Median Pay Starting at regional is 46

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median

Median Pay for commercial and airline pilots is $130,440 per year

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/airline-and-commercial-pilots.htm

There was a comment concerning pay for air traffic controllers which is $130,420 per year. Although starting pay is much higher.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm

The point is to do something you enjoy, don’t do it solely for the money.

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I am 58 years old and would like to know if there are scholarships available for someone like myself who was not able to complete his Private Pilot certificate several years ago due to an eye injury, and now wants to get back into flying?

I do fly a Kolb Firestar ultralight but would like to continue my education by getting my Sport Pilots license. I would continue to be private however, I don’t want to jump through all the hoops and barrels that I would need to go through to renew my medical due to the injury.
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Should I Build Hours In A Personal Plane For The Regionals?

Hello Carl,

I’m a CFI/II currently sitting at about 600 hours short of ATP minimums, due to my full-time job I can’t teach as much as I want to. The road to ATP is taking long, but I own a Cessna 150 which I’ve used to get all my ratings and build the majority of my time.

My question is would recruiters see it as an issue if I build the majority of the remaining time with a safety pilot flying around in my personal C-150 or do you think regionals wouldn’t pay much attention to this? What would they consider quality time if I choose this route?

Thanks.

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