I did a thing. As many know, I’m a CFI-I chasing the career 2.0 dream of flying professionally. Last week I interviewed with a regional airline for FO position in their cadet program. I was accepted! What does that mean? It means when I finish up my hours, ~700 left 😬, I will be given a class date and learn to fly jets! Very cool peace of mind as I chase my ATP minimums!

I've started the onboarding process with my flight club for my part time CFI gig. Mostly meetings with the Chief flight instructor going over the CFI handbook and talking through philosophies. I just have to complete a quick flight with the Chief and I'll be assigned my first student. Pretty exciting! He also said I could ramp up to full time, if I want, pretty quickly which will be super helpful if my FT job goes away. I heard layoffs were coming at my job so that's a bummer.

Good news! My local flight club, that I have been with for years, has agreed to take me on as a part time CFI! It's a great environment for flexibility and pretty relieved since the options around me are limited... especially for part time. It also allows me to transition to full time if I would like since there is a healthy backlog of students. Week or so of some onboarding and I should get my first victim, err student. ;)