"Craig Welch" wrote in message
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The OTHER Kevin in San Diego wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:04:38 +1000, jad
wrote:

Hi guys,

Got my CPL(H) in the last few months, now what!! Got no idea where to
start looking for work and collecting those wonderful hours..

I'm based in Australia, any ideas ??

Don't know about down under, but up here, unless you've got 1000 PIC
hours, jobs are VERY hard to come by. I got my CPL(H) back in March
and other than a couple friends paying me for rides, I haven't had any
"work" flying. The best way to get your hours is to instruct so that's
what I'm gonna
do.. Hopefully, once I get my Instructor ticket I'll be able to crank
out that 1000 hours in less than a year and move on to something
interesting.

As the OP is in Australia, he can't instruct until he has 400 hours. Which
is of course a good thing.

--
Craig

Amen to that, especially in helicopters. It's bad enough in fixed wing!
;-)

I'm always been a little leary of flight instructors who are "only" doing it
to build hours. I was lucky enough when I got my fixed wing ratings to know
a CFI who was not only a "First Class" teacher, but was flight instructing
not because he needed the flight hours but because he truly loved teaching
and flying. It made for a wonderful experience. To this day, if I could go
back and relive some previous part of my life, the summer I learned to fly
would be "very" high on the list.

I've got a couple of horror stories of students that got royally screwed by
CFI's who were trying to build hours. I'm not saying that would be you,
Kevin. You've have always come across as an honest guy in such things but I
hope you understand my point.

Best of luck to all, and Fly Safe,
Steve R.