n00bp1lot
16th Jun 2024, 08:55
Hello
Apologies if this post breaks any rules, but hopefully I am in the right place. Grateful for any advice from the NA pilots on this board.
I am an Australian/Canadian citizen, currently in Australia. Looking to change career from legal profession to a pilot potentially as the work life balance has been atrocious over the last few years. In the process of doing my PPL.
I understand that it will take a few years to get the relevant certifications, but the ideal end goal would be working for an airline in the US. I have saved up enough money to fund flight training (either in the US or Canada).
The options I am looking at are Harv's Air in Manitoba, or Leading Edge in Bend, Oregon (on an M1 visa and then hopefully building hours on an E-3). The Canadian path is easier from a pure logistics/work ability standpoint, as I can undertake training and have unlimited work rights.
Would it be better to a) train and build hours in Canada, with a view to eventually transferring licenses over to FAA equivalents and making a run at US airlines or b) starting in the US and remaining there outright. Understand there are probably some networking advantages to looking for work in or around the place you went to flight school, and I am also not opposed to moving around for work, or working bush pilot jobs in Northern Canada/Alaska to build hours. I also understand that we are well past the 'boom' and that I will probably be finishing flight school in a much bleaker employment environment (which makes me lean towards Canada, as I have unlimited work/stay rights).
Main fear is with the Canadian option, it may be a long long time before I make it over to the US airlines, and main fear with the US option is not being able to build enough hours due to the E-3 visa.
Thanks!
Noob
Apologies if this post breaks any rules, but hopefully I am in the right place. Grateful for any advice from the NA pilots on this board.
I am an Australian/Canadian citizen, currently in Australia. Looking to change career from legal profession to a pilot potentially as the work life balance has been atrocious over the last few years. In the process of doing my PPL.
I understand that it will take a few years to get the relevant certifications, but the ideal end goal would be working for an airline in the US. I have saved up enough money to fund flight training (either in the US or Canada).
The options I am looking at are Harv's Air in Manitoba, or Leading Edge in Bend, Oregon (on an M1 visa and then hopefully building hours on an E-3). The Canadian path is easier from a pure logistics/work ability standpoint, as I can undertake training and have unlimited work rights.
Would it be better to a) train and build hours in Canada, with a view to eventually transferring licenses over to FAA equivalents and making a run at US airlines or b) starting in the US and remaining there outright. Understand there are probably some networking advantages to looking for work in or around the place you went to flight school, and I am also not opposed to moving around for work, or working bush pilot jobs in Northern Canada/Alaska to build hours. I also understand that we are well past the 'boom' and that I will probably be finishing flight school in a much bleaker employment environment (which makes me lean towards Canada, as I have unlimited work/stay rights).
Main fear is with the Canadian option, it may be a long long time before I make it over to the US airlines, and main fear with the US option is not being able to build enough hours due to the E-3 visa.
Thanks!
Noob