Planesense
06-09-2022, 12:58 PM
#2726
On Reserve
Joined APC: Nov 2018
Posts: 15
Posted by Tanker, 4 pages back:
"For DEC the new hire training, and checkride, is the same as for the FOs as you will be an FO (but paid as a Captain) for your 1st 3-4 rotations. After that you will be brought bought to the training center for upgrade training."
The process has gotten easier over the years. In the past the DEC wash out rate was quite high and much of it has little to do with how good a pilot you are.
Candidates run into problems digesting the shear amount of operational knowledge specific to the company. Creating and filing your own flightplans, back to back non precision approaches to minimums into short field aiports that sometimes have no logistical support (fuel, gpu, etc). All this with low time co-pilots and a relentless pace. The training department keeps you in the right seat until you're comfortable nowadays, but the expectation is to get in the left seat asap.
Some who have the hours to be a DEC just come in as an FO and upgrade as soon as they are ready... A tactic that significantly reduces pressure and expectation while you get to know the company from the right seat. The obvious problem is: How do you live on $42.5k while waiting to upgrade?
"For DEC the new hire training, and checkride, is the same as for the FOs as you will be an FO (but paid as a Captain) for your 1st 3-4 rotations. After that you will be brought bought to the training center for upgrade training."
The process has gotten easier over the years. In the past the DEC wash out rate was quite high and much of it has little to do with how good a pilot you are.
Candidates run into problems digesting the shear amount of operational knowledge specific to the company. Creating and filing your own flightplans, back to back non precision approaches to minimums into short field aiports that sometimes have no logistical support (fuel, gpu, etc). All this with low time co-pilots and a relentless pace. The training department keeps you in the right seat until you're comfortable nowadays, but the expectation is to get in the left seat asap.
Some who have the hours to be a DEC just come in as an FO and upgrade as soon as they are ready... A tactic that significantly reduces pressure and expectation while you get to know the company from the right seat. The obvious problem is: How do you live on $42.5k while waiting to upgrade?
06-09-2022, 02:12 PM
#2727
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 456
As a DEC you go through new hire training as an FO (but paid as a Captain) which is 3 weeks of ground school and Mission Fit (PC-12 FTD) then you go to Flight Safety ( with Plane Sense instructors) for 4 days of simulator training then a check ride. You then do 3-4 rotators an FO ( still paid as a Captain) after which you go into the next upgrade class to get trained as a Captain
06-20-2022, 12:24 PM
#2729
On Reserve
Joined APC: Nov 2018
Posts: 15
Having been at Planesense through the 2009-12 housing bubble I would say that economic downturns affect people in lower economic segments of society. People with money just keep on trucking as normal. Demand may slow, but we will have more business than we can handle for the foreseeable future.
06-20-2022, 02:44 PM
#2730
On Reserve
Joined APC: Dec 2015
Posts: 24
Is there any chance that the company will work with employees on the distance from a reporting base requirement? I'm seriously looking at all of the home-based options that are out there, with PlaneSense being at the top of the list, but I unfortunately live a 3 hour drive from their nearest reporting base. Making that drive would be absolutely no issue for me, but I'm wondering if that would be out of the realm of possibility for the company to allow or make work?
I don’t think that this has been answered. I’m interested in the answer to this question as well.
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