I enjoy instructing but it sucks being broke all the time. I’ve got over 1500 hours, almost all of it in 172s or pa-28s. I don’t have cfii or mei, the school I work for doesn’t have a multi and my schedule is already maxed out with private and commercial students so I don’t really see the point. I do have multi engine land on my commercial certificate but I only have ~35 hrs of multi total. 0 turbine. What kind of jobs should I be looking for? I don’t think another 1000 hours in single engine trainers will make me much more competitive or am I wrong? I am willing to move across the country or live in the middle of nowhere if necessary.
Just hit 1500. What are my options at this point.
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What if you are doing something similar but in a twin?
It's mainly just the like, oh it's your own airplane and you have no way of truly verifying those hours are legit.
I've absolutely heard of companies going through ADSB data to try and see if your hours are legit on the plane you own.
Can these stories just die already? I’ve been through multiple indocs/logbook reviews/ interviews at multiple companies, from 91K to 121. Never has anyone pulled up Adsb data. What if the airplane doesn’t have ADSB? Is all your time invalid now? For that matter, the story of the guy who logged flight time in the interviewers/dpes airplane, heard that story told multiple different times multiple different ways for the last 15 years.
I had the restriction from my ATP removed by an FAA aviation safety inspector who examined my logbook and just made sure my number added up properly and helped me correct a few mathematical errors but never pulled ADSB data or made sure the color of pens matched or whatever other wives tales are floating around out there.
If you own your own airplane that time is no more or no less valuable than any other type of piston time. Log your time neatly and accurately as possible and you’ll be fine.