Its kinda a crap shoot. Some guys are getting hired right out of the program while others are not so they need to insturct. Either way the CFI stuff is very important for 2 reasons I believe. One I learned so much more during my CFI training then I thought I knew going through the rest of the program. As a CFI you need to know the ins and out of everything, when you teach something you learn it twice as good because you have to. Thats what I think about that.
The base thing is all on seniorty! So first you need to find an airline that has a base where you want to live. When you show up for class you get to put your bid in for what base you want. If there are openings there then it works like this...
The oldest in the class has the highest seniorty all that way down to the youngest one in the class. You are all at the very bottom of the whole pilot list. So they then award them in order of how many they need and from your seniority number. If you get a base you dont want then you have to at least start there untill you have enough seniority to bid back to where you want to be. Its all about the number!
Hope that helps
Dan
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