New user: re 31 Years too old?

[Boris Badenov]

MOSES: judging by the night restriction on your PPL, you're doing your training in Canada. Is that where you're planning to work as well? If so, just bear in mind that most of us are in the States. I imagine that the job markets might be VERY different, although I don't know. The upside here is that, typically, other countries have fewer pilots competing for jobs, due to the higher costs of training. But don't bank on that. Talk to some of the regionals you're targeting and ask them what realistic minimum times are. Tailor your flying to fit that. For example, when I was a CFI, I knew I wanted to fly 135 cargo. One of the big stumbling blocks to that is the 500 hours cross country. So I made sure that whenever possible I took students to other, nearby airports. Good for them as they learned to fly from unfamiliar fields (which is, after all, the whole point) and good for me as I got to log cross country. That's just an example, but you get the idea.

[MOSES1]

Thanks for the response Boris and Jettison.
Yes, I'm hoping on flying somewhere in the West Indies in the near future. Even though I was born and raised in Canada, its somewhat difficult to get into the airlines (Air Canada) up here. Fortunately for me though, my parents obtained dual citizenship for me in Trinidad and Tobago about 28 years ago which means I can live there and work if my situation permits me to. My ultimate goal and dream would be to first fly Dash 8's for Liat while building hours and then eventually move on to the majors like Caribbean Airlines or even Air Jamaica sometime in the long future.
Currently, I'm still working on my night rating and IFR. Eventually, after many hours of flying I'll get my multi-engline rating and finally my commercial license.
I think I'll take your advice and work on my CFI once I'm finished my Commercial and built tons of hours.
It definitely looks as though I'll be in this one for the long haul. I've also put graduate school on hold until I've finished my multi-engine rating. I'm still a firm believer though that I should take my current career and education seriously just in case the aviation industry gets tough again.

Thanks again,


Moses