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04-09-2011, 08:49 AM
#261
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Joined APC: Feb 2011
Posts: 4
Like it or not the regionals are going to need lower time pilots in the very near future. I doubt we will see mins of 250tt again but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see 400 maybe even 350 from some airlines desperate to fill their right seats. It will all come done to $ and management will take the cheaper option every time!
04-09-2011, 06:55 PM
#262
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Posts: 687
And in the mean time during the few days the back-and-forth bickering between members has been going on a bunch of short-time flight instructors have gotten class dates while a furloughed CRJ pilot still hasn't gotten a phone call from an airline that's theoretically hurting for pilots... something wrong with this picture?
04-09-2011, 07:19 PM
#263
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Joined APC: May 2010
Position: Sideways in a sim
Posts: 435
Something very, very wrong. Its sad that the guys who have already put in the time have been kicked to the streets and forgotten. It makes me sick. Guys are graduating flight school, coming on with no interview, while a guy who has already put 3-4+ years into this nightmare can't get a call. Just plain sick.
04-09-2011, 10:49 PM
#265
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Joined APC: May 2010
Position: Sideways in a sim
Posts: 435
I breezed through with about 500... airline training's not really all that hard... just pay attention to what your instructors are teaching, ask questions when you don't understand something... and look over what you don't have down cold... how many flight hours you have or how much "experience" you have means nothing during training... flying the line is where that makes the difference...
04-10-2011, 01:04 AM
#266
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: 747 captain
Posts: 1,561
04-10-2011, 01:16 AM
#267
Nice lookin' tree, there!
Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: Tool-Box, old man
Posts: 2,204
Having been a check airman who was involved with training many 250 to 500 hour guys I can tell you that most made it (more times than not they required additional sim and line training) and some washed out, but like it or not two decades from now the industry will be populated mostly by the generation that went from cero to RJ's, "earned my stripes" will be replaced with "purchased my stripes" a generation that has very little respect for seniority and experience with a huge sense of entitlement, the generation that roll their eyes when you tell them to put away the Ipad at cruise, the generation that ask "how junior the last captain bid went" while you are recommending more OE after they already have had over 50 hours (yeah, that happened a few times) that is where this career is headed.
Good luck to all,
fbh
04-10-2011, 01:56 PM
#268
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: CL-65 captain
Posts: 2,244
Having been a check airman who was involved with training many 250 to 500 hour guys I can tell you that most made it (more times than not they required additional sim and line training) and some washed out, but like it or not two decades from now the industry will be populated mostly by the generation that went from cero to RJ's, "earned my stripes" will be replaced with "purchased my stripes" a generation that has very little respect for seniority and experience with a huge sense of entitlement, the generation that roll their eyes when you tell them to put away the Ipad at cruise, the generation that ask "how junior the last captain bid went" while you are recommending more OE after they already have had over 50 hours (yeah, that happened a few times) that is where this career is headed.
04-10-2011, 01:58 PM
#269
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: CL-65 captain
Posts: 2,244
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