Once you get your comm. Pilots license How hard is it to get a job.?

There are many questions here so I'll answer them all in turn.

1. It depends where you are in the world. In the US and UK particularly, it is very difficult finding a job at the moment because there aren't many airlines hiring. There are also too many people training to become pilots and too many pilots looking for jobs, so even if you do apply for a job, you definitely won't be the only one. In the Middle East and Asia, it's not too bad finding a job out there. The pay won't be as good as it would be in the western countries, but still you're building up hours and gaining experience. However, a lot of pilots are beginning to turn to the east looking for jobs and so that market will soon become heavily saturated too.

I've said this quite a lot but I've known two friends who have got their ATPLs within the past 3 years. One found employment with an airlines within the first few months, whereas the other has had no luck at all. In fact, he has had to turn to a different career whilst searching for a pilot job (and he means any pilot job, not particularly airlines).

The aviation industry may recover in years to come as it's somewhat cyclic. Finding a job at an airline may become a bit easier then.

2. Be careful when getting degrees in aviation. You should really get a degree in a different subject because if your pilot career does not work out as you expect, then you can fall back on that degree and find a different career. I've got a degree in human biology and I always did plan on becoming a secondary school teacher if my pilot career took a turn for the worse.

3. Your flying schedule depends which airline you are hired by. New pilots tend to get the schedules that no other pilots want and the senior pilots tend to get the best schedules. You could be home every night but have to get up at the crack and dawn or you could be home four days a week or x days a months. As you go up the senior ladder at your airline, your flying schedule will become more beneficial for you.

Good luck with everything.

Aviation degree makes no difference, no preference over any other degree. Aviation colleges are expensive, and the flight training is about average quality. Better/cheaper to go to a "regular" college & earn your ratings under part 61. Any four-year college degree is fine.

Flying jobs with the kind of schedule you're asking about will be very difficult to get for the first several years.

Avoid ANY trouble with the law - one DUI or controlled substance, or even too many/too fast speeding tickets, kiss a piloting career goodbye. Any other trouble with the law, same story. Employers in aviation fields really value people who stay within the bounds of laws and regulations, since following regulations and exercising good judgment are so critical to aviation safety.

If you want to be an airline pilot you pretty much need a 4 year degree. Avoid aviation degrees though because they won't feed you for the 25% of your career when you are on furlough. Today most airline pilots have non-aviation side jobs to keep the money coming in when they are not working.

However, if you want to be an instructor, charter pilot, etc you can do all those without a degree.

There is actually an article written on how to get a job at a commercial airline. It covers what steps they go through in the hiring process. Here it is http://www.ehow.com/how_5298480_job-jetblue.html

But most places like to see above 1000 hrs of flight time, and as much multi-engine time as possible. As far as how easy, it is up to your qualifications, personality and how badly they need pilots. The aviation field is pretty full right now, but I hear that it fills up and then opens up again after a few years. Good luck!

No, you like atleast a commercial pilots licence, yet till now which you're able to desire to get your Instument score, or you would be constrained to flying basically 50 miles out of your departure element. inspite of a commercial pilots licence, you are able to no longer fly with an airline, thats an entire different ball pastime. With a commercial pilots licence you would be waiting to be A flight instrutor, crop duster, banner tower, to call some, yet no longer an Airliner. keep in mind this- First get your PPL, (with this licence you are able to no longer fly for hire) next, tool score, then your commercial pliots Licence, proper there your finding at a attainable $40,000, thats till now you even get a activity. Im no longer even going to waste a while speaking approximately growing to be to be an airline pilot. One step at a time.

I would say a B.S. in Aviation would definitely help since there is so much competition out there. There are a lot of pilots. And not all of them have a 4 year college degree, and not all of those have one in Aviation. I would say the advantage would kick in once you got ready to apply to a major airline. They would definitely look at that more favorably than someone else without one! Below that level, it wouldn't make much of a difference.

Get ready for an up hill battle, degree or not it surly won't be handed to you as I know several pilots thankful just to have a job.

You will have low hours.

Your competition will have high hours.

All else being equal, who gets the job?

Don't expect to be able to pick and choose when you start out.

It might help you get another truck driving job. As far as aircraft, forget it.