[avi8torny]

ENLIST....that's what I would have done if I had to do it again. The only way to make a small amount of money flying for a living is starting with a large amount of money.

With flight time and no commercial pilot's rating you are not employable. If you thought flying an EMS helicopter would be something you would be interested in, typical Helicopter EMS operations look for Helo pilots that have thousands of hours, not hundreds of hours in helicopters. And I'm not talking thousands of hours in a Robinson R-22. You want to teach flying? Flight instructors usually wear shirts that say "will fly for food", that's how bad it is. How bout a regional airline pilot? When ACA was in business on the east coast, their new hires would get paid $200 week while they were in training which lasted 7 weeks. That was less than 10 years ago. Their starting salaries when they moved to the line was about $2500/month based on a minimum of 75 hours of flight time per month.

So maybe you want to buy an airplane and fly paying customers around. You want something pressurized, used King Air would fit the bill, pony up $2million for that. Insurance? Hanger? Pilot training? Someone to handle the FAA paperwork? Charts? Landing Fees? Catering? oh, I forgot....fuel. It's $7 a gallon and the King Air burns 100 gallons of it every hour of flight.

If you want to fly for a living, the Services are the way to go.