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Originally Posted by Yippee38
I just flew with a guy who got hired at 1200 hours (regional). I think you can possibly get hired with less (maybe he said 1000) if you go to the right flight school. Ex-military can get hired at 800.
Cl-65 might be the same cert as a Global Express. It might be worth a year at a regional to get the experience.
I thought I wanted to do corporate. Now, I can't imagine being on call all the time, 16 hour flights with 2 crewmembers, sitting all day in an FBO, or being gone from home for 7 days straight. No thank you.
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The Global is a BD700. I believe the CL-65 would cover a Challenger 850 but there aren't a ton of those out there.
As far as corporate lifestyle, a lot of corporate gigs are on call all the time, but I don't know of any that push pilots like that anymore. With Safety Management Systems, operators are pretty much adhering to Part 135/121 flight and duty time limits.
I'm sure there are some crappy corporate jobs out there, but my last two have been pretty good. In my current job we work less than 5 days/month with very few overnights (I have been Hilton Diamond status for years and am Silver now). We have three pilots and average around 100 hrs/yr/pilot. A lot of those hours come in big chunks on international trips.
When we do get out on a long trip, we generally airline home, or we can bring our family along to join us.
Dream jobs are rare, but they do exist!
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