building hours is a job, not a hobby, and the sooner you treat it…

Gus Ferraro · Pilot at South Shore Aerial Ads · Farmingdale, NY

building hours is a job, not a hobby, and the sooner you treat it like one the faster it goes. banner tow, pipeline, skydive ops, traffic watch, ferry. all of it is PIC time and all of it teaches you something a 172 in the pattern will not. i went from 300 to 1200 in fourteen months doing work nobody wanted

2 comments

Nate Adeyemi

Doing work nobody wanted is how I got there too. The jobs that are hard to fill are hard to fill for a reason and that reason is your opportunity.

Annika Sorenson

Every low level discipline in this industry hires the person who showed up. Gus has said this three different ways now and it is still true.