One of the nice things about getting older is that you get some perspective on boom and bust cycles. When I was first learning to fly, my instructor had 3000 hours and was lucky to get some check-flying work. Ten years later I was working as a full-time CFI during the dot-com days, when students were riding their IPOs right up to the FBO. Friends of mine were getting in the right seat of a Dash-8 with 1000 hours, only 100 of which were multi-engine.That lasted about as long as the dot-com stock options. Now it's boom time and 500 hours and pulse gets you a shot at the right seat of an Embraer. But the storm clouds of bust are definitely swirling, both in the airline world and down here in GA-ville.
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