Junior Capt. at CAL
#11
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: DD->DH->RU/XE soon to be EV
Posts: 3,732
#12
Tom
#13
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: DD->DH->RU/XE soon to be EV
Posts: 3,732
#16
9 Years to hold 756 CA does not make you a wide body captain. It makes you a junior CA on reserve flying the 757 to Dublin/Shannon (Shublin). Only the top 20% of 756 CA's get to fly the 767. That will change for the worse when the 767-200's start leaving.
#17
Just for what it's worth. I was hired with 2000 hours, not a son, intern, etc. and will probably be a widebody captain at 5 years. I can promise you I am more than qualified. Not just the time, it's the type of time a person has.
#20
I agree completely. I am one who has very advanced flight time compared to the amount of TT I have. Sure I was hired at a regional with just under 700 TT, but over half of that was multi and almost one third was turbine (mostly jet... I had a really good internship). I had great frustration when I was denied jobs because someone with 1000 hours in a 152 (in the right seat) was somehow more qualified to fly a jet than I was. Call me young and naive, but I don't see how flying another 300hrs in the pattern in a 152 could have possibly made me a more qualified pilot.
Please be nice... This could just be my youth and in-experience talking.
Please be nice... This could just be my youth and in-experience talking.
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