At this point you have completed all your training and you should be ready to start your aviation career. By this time, you should have logged a minimum of 100 hours of flight time. Your goal is to increase your flight hours by at least 150, and preferably a lot more.

Jobs you are now qualified for include:

1. Flight Instructor
This is a good job where most pilots get their start. It is a great way to rapidly build up flight hours and PIC experience.

2. Air Courier
This is another job that allows you to build flight hours and gain PIC experience, but it is not as reliable as flight instruction because when and where you fly depends on the needs of customers.

3. Charter Pilot / Air Taxi
In this job you fly passengers to places that regular air services don't go. This job can involve long flights cross country, so it not only gives you hour building but also possibly experience visiting many different airfields.

4. Bush Pilot
This is a special kind of air taxi service dedicated to delivering people or supplies to remote areas. Customers can include tourists, photographers, hunters, and fishermen. It can help to have a seaplane rating. This job builds your skills as a pilot rapidly, so future employers will be impressed if you have this job on your CV.

5. Jump Pilot
You will be transporting skydivers to jump zones. While this can be a steady job, it involves a lot of responsibility, so it's only good for those willing to accept responsibility.

6. Glider Tow Pilot
One of the easiest aviation jobs to get because you do not even require a CPL. This job can be done with as little as a PPL and 100 hours of flight experience, plus a tow pilot rating.

7. Pipeline Patrol Pilot
This job can be a bit monotonous because it usually involves flying over the same routes every day. You will be checking pipelines or powerlines for visible problems and reporting any problems you find.

8. Survey Pilot
This job involves flying over places to make aerial photos for mapping.

9. Air Tour Pilot
Almost exclusively you will be flying in tourist zones. This job requires you to research those areas well so you can tell your passengers whatever they need or want to know about the place you are flying in.

Jobs you are now qualified for include:

1. Short Range Cargo Pilot
Small cargo companies are often willing to hire pilots with between 250 and 500 hours of experience.

2. Missionary Pilot
This job allows you to build hours and skills, and it pays very well for a low experience job. This is because it usually involves flying in places that ordinary people don't want to go to and where there is some level of risk involved. Although the salary is usually a minimum of 300,000 baht per month, we recommend this job only for genuine Christians who definitely want to do missionary work with all its potential risks and rewards.

3. Any job from Milestone 1
Just because it's time to move on, doesn't mean you should or that you must. Building up more hours is the most important thing.

Now that you have a minimum of 500 hours of flight experience, you will find that the industry starts really opening up to you. Even better, because you've fast tracked your career by the maximum possible, unlike most other pilots you won't be saddled with a massive student debt to pay off. Your goal now will be to add at least another 1000 hours of experience to your logbook.

This may not sound like a very big task, but it actually will be requiring patience and dedication from you. This is because regulations in many countries, or simply carrier policy, may restrict pilots to flying a maximum of 1000 hours per year.

While that may seem to be an unfair restriction, it's all about safety. Fatigue can be a major contributor to air accidents, so the authorities impose restrictions on how much time a pilot can work. This is to avoid situations where carriers might demand for pilots to work excess hours, resulting in pilots becoming too fatigued to work effectively without the risk of compromising safety.

To have come as far as you have already, you have shown you've got what it takes to succeed. Stick with it and keep building up your experience, because the reward for persistence is well worth it.

Jobs you are now qualified for include:

1. Medium Range Cargo Pilot
You will now be able to work in larger and more well known cargo companies. You could also get experience in more types of aircraft.

2. Ferry Pilot
This job involves flying aircraft from one destination to another destination for the sole purpose of transporting the aircraft. While you will normally need at least 500 hours of experience, this is a job that can sometimes be done with only a PPL.

3. Air Limousine Pilot
This is a higher class of air taxi service that normally caters to the needs of VIPs, celebrities, and executives.

4. Any job from Milestones 1 & 2
Just because it's time to move on, doesn't mean you should or that you must. Building up more hours is the most important thing.

At long last it's time to consider completing your training to qualify as an airline pilot.

Minimum prerequisites:

• CPL
• Multi-Engine rating
• Multi-Crew rating
• 1500 hours of flight expereience

Continuing on to get your type rating is optional but strongly recommended. Type-rated pilots will have an advantage over non-rated pilots. For advice about which type rating to obtain, contact an ACES Education career counsellor.