alpar80

Does anyone know how this works in regards to upgrade into capt position, how bout pay and ave hours flight time a month?

Capn Sac

When you have your time for the ATP you will upgrade. The average FO is flying about 60+ hours per month. If you go out to IND you will fly more. The starting pay for FO's is $9/ duty hour or $18/ flight hour whichever is greater. Hotel is paid for during training and you get a 35 hour minimum per week in training. We are running classes every three weeks starting Feb 4th.

alpar80

What should one coming from a 121 background expect in the interview process?

freezingflyboy

I'm curious what other 121 carrier you are thinking about leaving for Cape Air and why. To the best of my knowledge Cape Air's aircraft are all Cessna 402s (aka piston time) unless you want to move to Guam and fly the 1 or 2 ATRs they have.

VTcharter

One of those 402 drivers that has been with the company for a few years will make more than a junior RJ captain at a regional and argueably have a better QOL...depending on what you want. Living in the Carribbean in the winter and the cape area in the summer...if you are single and not attached to the umbilical cord than I can't think of a much better situation! Even if you are not the relocating kind, once you can hold a base all year, you are home every night and making decent money to boot.

Now if you want to move on to fly heavies for the majors, then Cape Air probably is not the way to go, but many people don't have those aspirations, and after having a taste of the 121 world, some people may realize that the aspirations that they thought they had have changed from that experience.

alpar80

I am attached and have a baby. I am with Colgan and with all the uncertainty in the industry and my desire not to go to a heavy 121 carrier or mainline, I feel Cape is my best choice. I live between boston and the cape and actually worked with them as a rampie about 3 yrs ago. Colgan hired me with my low time and got me experience in hard IFR in and out of LGA, experience I wouldn't change for the world. However, lately there is a ton of change in the company, industry, and economy which leaves for a lot of schedule changing and down time (reserve/ground sits with no pay). Turbine time has no affect on my desicion becuase if i were to go anywhere, it would probably be with a fractional way down the road who don't weigh on turbine PIC. I feel the whole industry is taking a hit, I just want to be with a company who I know is strong and a company where I know there will be a demand for air travel. They will allways fill those 402's to 5 sections carrying CEOs from the cape to Nantucket. As they say the Vineyard is for millionaires and Nantucket is for billionaires.

SLpilot

What are the hiring mins for a cape air FO?

alpar80

1300 TT www.flycapeair.com

JoePilot85

Just kinda curious, is it hard to find pilots to fly for cape air with the regional hiring that's going on? Nothing against Cape Air, but it doesnt exactly seem like a career position. What kind of jobs are people getting with a couple thousand hours of PIC multi-piston?

freezingflyboy

I figured it had to be something like that which is why I asked. And I totally understand that rationale. If you can make more money at Cape, have a better QOL, spend more time with the baby and it doesn't put a damper on your career goals, then I say go for it. I'm sure they'll just about cream their pants when they smell the jet A on you during the interview