SSH Flooding the market?!?

[chop_top]

Hey,

 

Just wondering with all this talk about SSH and CFI's. As I wrote in the title. Is SSH flooding the market? And we all have herd the stories of how bad they can screw a pilot, if that pilot doesn't finish with them. But are they really training good pilots in general? Now with TV commercials and OCC on the Discovery Channel are we about to all be screwed? I was afraid to train with SSH mostly from all of the horror stories about them. But people are hiring students from them so I don't understand. I would just like to read about what others think.

 

chop_top

[Tenacious T]

Hey,

 

Just wondering with all this talk about SSH and CFI's. As I wrote in the title. Is SSH flooding the market? And we all have herd the stories of how bad they can screw a pilot, if that pilot doesn't finish with them. But are they really training good pilots in general? Now with TV commercials and OCC on the Discovery Channel are we about to all be screwed? I was afraid to train with SSH mostly from all of the horror stories about them. But people are hiring students from them so I don't understand. I would just like to read about what others think.

 

chop_top

The FAA gives out ratings and licenses not SSH, if you pass your check rides you must be doing something right. Get your 1,000 hours and your resume is looked at the same as everyone else's. I may be wrong but I really don't think the GOM operators care where you got your training as long as you got it.

 

As far as flooding the market, the road from signing on the dotted line to 1,000 hours TT is long and difficult. Many will start, few will make it to the end. Maybe the student pilot "market" is being flooded, but the professional pilot market? Doubtful.

[wannabe heli pilot]

Chop Top, I train there and also had some questions as well. As far as pilots being well trained the instructors that I have flown with are all able to teach the lessons as outlined in the maneuvers guide. Several students of the class I'm in are soloing at 20 hours I'll be around 20-24 maybe. They pound ep's into you and are always testing your knowledge. I think there are a few students who don't take it seriously.I however really enjoy the training both flying and books. I'm not sure about me being a good pilot yet, one day maybe way down the road.

As far as SSH flooding the market ,there are many other schools also training pilots as well.I prefer to look at this way , someone just hit 1000 hours some where and is moving on. The last none helo industry jobs I applied to all had well over 40+ applicants within 2 days of being listed! How bad do you want this?

[mechanic]

The last none helo industry jobs I applied to all had well over 40+ applicants within 2 days of being listed! How bad do you want this?

 

I was called in for an interview with BNSF RailRoad sometime back. After all the app's they had looked over, only 75 were called in for the interview, I was one of them. They only hired 10... I have no idea how many total app's they recieved.

[Mixmaster]

The last none helo industry jobs I applied to all had well over 40+ applicants within 2 days of being listed! How bad do you want this?

 

I use to work in a manufacturing plant back east. The accountants there placed a add on monster.com for a new accountant. The following morning the had to pull the listing after getting just short of 600 resumes. Trust me NO job is easy to get, you just have to sell your self correctly, I was in the Gulf with 500hrs flying a Jetranger PIC not SIC.

It can be done, you just have to sell your self correctly.

Fly Safe

Ben

[jehh]

The challenge of Monster.com is that of those 600 resumes, perhaps 50 of them actually met the job requirements.

[K-38]

I am a retired firefighter. When I tested for my department I took the written test in the city's covention center with 3000 other qualified applicants(fire tech degree, fire academy completion, EMT, etc.) That was some intense competition. Point is it can be done. Study hard, always be professional, treat your flight training as a year long job interview. You can make it happen. There are job's out there.

[permison]

The challenge of Monster.com is that of those 600 resumes, perhaps 50 of them actually met the job requirements.

 

No kidding. I am trying to hire a web developer and posted on dice. We got over 2000 resumes maybe 10 were qualified. Thankfully HR went through them for me.