barabek

Go to Skywest! You'll thank me later.

Capt Ruby Pubes

Seriously. After just over a year here if I could do it all again I would've went to Skywest.

FlytheSky

You wanting a SEA base? Then come on in! But make sure to interview at Compass before your class date at Horizon. Don't want to burn bridges or give up seniority for something that you don't know is a sure thing. Contracts are good through 2020 and our performance is looking pretty good despite the complaining you hear on here, so I doubt the planes are going anywhere when that date rolls around. But in regional time these days, that's an eternity, so you have to have a really good crystal ball. Probably a better one than I have.

Workless

A friend of mine submitted his app a week ago and hasn’t heard anything. College degree, good gpa, no failures, no “skelatons.” No response to the email I sent as well. Must not be too bad over there at the moment...

Slowhawk

If this were January I'd say GO ELSEWHERE but honestly it's shaping up to be a ton of fast movement around here at the moment. Seattle is easy to get out of training (at the time of my writing this). The pay is great and the captains and crews are all super nice.

Honestly you could be quite happy at OO or Horizon, but you could also be quite happy here.

Training is a fire hose for the first week of indoc until you realize that you don't actually have to know everything they're touching on. After the first week or two, training is broken down into easy steps with repetition and really isn't much to sweat. Lots of home study beforehand. Hotel (at least in the early spring) was Extended Stay Eagan. Definitely a 3/5 star place but they have a compass crew room that was nice. From intro day to completed IOE, I'd say 4 months

Citation X

Thanks for all the replies guys. Can someone tell me if the home study is a course by Aero Sim?

AirBat

Nah it's like GE capitol or something for the E175 cbt and a bunch of compass specific CBTS.

GoHomeLeg

Ok I know this is probably going to open up a Can of worms so everyone forgive me.

According to the contract a definition of a captain " means a pilot who is in command of the aircraft and its crew members while on duty and is responsible for the manipulation of, or who manipulates, the flight controls of an aircraft while underway, including takeoff and landing of such aircraft and who is properly qualified and designated by the company to serve as and holds currently effective Airman certificates authorizing him to serve as such pilot."

The reason I bring this up is that it states in order to be a "Captain" you must be "in command". I believe this renders the Clause that a "Captain who occupies the right seat will be paid as a Captain" completely useless since that contradicts the CBA's definition of "Captain".

I also feel that this language would give the company the ability to "left seat qualify" pilots but only allow them to collect Captain pay if they were "in command of the aircraft".

I know the last place I worked at would have exploited this loophole to their benefit. Anyone care to tell me why this interpretation may not be correct.

Jedimaster

Forgive me for chiming in, I'm the first to admit that I know very little about your CBA and associated work rules. I'm only quoting the above as it is the last post in a long line of threads addressing the same subject matter.
So, old guy here, Former Captain at a similar airline in the 80's and 90's. It was normal SOP to get called to fly the right seat occasionally while on reserve. There was no special "right seat Qual " involved, because we had a type rating and FO's did not ... If you have a type rating, you can occupy any seat you choose, because, well, you had the type...
This should work both ways, now that FOs get type ratings ... you're already a Captain, (otherwise, why the type rating) Upgrade for you guys should be like a two day transition thing, involving things like fuel planning, delegation strategies and judgement issues, instead of a whole "'nother type" really?? Sorry for venting, but many developments of the last two decades just seem really silly to me.
Be safe out there.

GoHomeLeg

No forgiveness needed. I believe (and am probably wrong) that type ratings now are being issued to first officers as a product of everyone being required to posses an ATP regardless of seat occupied. This means that individuals coming in without an ATP already in hand are required to some sort of "ride" in order to get it.

As for "upgrade" I think you are spot on about how training should go. It's crazy times my friend.