New Minimums For All
03-05-2009, 05:51 PM
#22
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I love how people are giving out advice saying "go flying boxes in a light twin" yadda yadda yadda...if those jobs were readily available I would love to do that...but they're not! I have my MEI, and it's pretty hard pressed for anybody to land any decent multi time without buying it...which I basically refuse to do. So how am I supposed to raise my multi time from 158 magically up to 200-500?
03-05-2009, 06:10 PM
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03-05-2009, 06:18 PM
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They won't be able to find anybody. Sure they would now because people are willing to fly for free now but mins have nothing to do with safety, it all has to do with the hiring environment. Right now the only idiots flight training are Embry Riddle and similar colleges.... No one in their right mind will be considering this as a profession from now on because the best they could hope for is a CA slot for an ERj 175 OR crj and a long wait for the privilage to be on reserve for a decade at a major. Trainings is becoming ridiculously expensive, might as well become a doctor or lawyer. This next year and maybe the year after that things will be tough but when this economy turns around, there will be no more pilots to draw from. I wouldn't be surprised if we see ab-initio programs for the regionals and abintio programs for some majors in this life time. Kind of like all the truck and bus driving schools out there. Mesa will be advertising for abintio pilots on radio.
I have to vote against you on this one FlyJSH. I don't want to be left out!
03-05-2009, 06:21 PM
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I love how people are giving out advice saying "go flying boxes in a light twin" yadda yadda yadda...if those jobs were readily available I would love to do that...but they're not! I have my MEI, and it's pretty hard pressed for anybody to land any decent multi time without buying it...which I basically refuse to do. So how am I supposed to raise my multi time from 158 magically up to 200-500?
03-05-2009, 06:29 PM
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I would think that ATP mins with written completed would be a good start. And to debunk one post, that is more than I had when I was hired.
I do not remember what I had but it was somewhere around 1300 or so with 150-180 multi (cant recall the multi) ATP written was done but only because it got me out of the companies written at the interview.
I do not remember what I had but it was somewhere around 1300 or so with 150-180 multi (cant recall the multi) ATP written was done but only because it got me out of the companies written at the interview.
03-05-2009, 06:36 PM
#28
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This is true - though even applying all of the most popular conversion times from the different airlines I wouldn't make your 5000 TT minimums and I've got a fair amount of time for my community after a career, so anyone getting out prior to 20 probably wouldn't make those mins. 
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03-05-2009, 07:08 PM
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I love how people are giving out advice saying "go flying boxes in a light twin" yadda yadda yadda...if those jobs were readily available I would love to do that...but they're not! I have my MEI, and it's pretty hard pressed for anybody to land any decent multi time without buying it...which I basically refuse to do. So how am I supposed to raise my multi time from 158 magically up to 200-500?
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