How are the job opportunities after completing CPL?

Without an airline transport pilot certificate, and with only a CPL and a few hundred hours to your name, you're very limited in what you can do for a living. Theoretically, the FAA lists all the careers a CPL-wielding pilot can legally perform. These include tasks like aerial application (crop dusting), pipeline patrol, banner tow, air charter (with a valid air operating certificate), sightseeing flights (with a valid FAA permit), aerial photography, traffic watch, and other such careers. Unfortunately, None of these careers is particularly lucrative, and while you may find gainful employment as, for example, a traffic watch pilot, you probably won't make enough to survive (and will have to take a second job). The most common next step for fresh CPL holders is to continue on towards getting their CFI and begin teaching at a local flight school. You'll probably make enough to quit your other job, and you'll be doing a lot of flying.

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