BYUFlyr

That's an easy one.... PIC

FlyJSH

The question is who are you getting to recommend you?

AvPilot

What is everyones oppinion about single engine turbo prop PIC vs jet SIC?

CalCUBS

Like Pilatus PC-12 135 time? I would like to hear everyones thoughts on this.

dogismycopilot

I got my 1000 TPIC in a BE1900, and bailed to get my SIC jet time... in a 767. I never would have gotten the 767 job without the PIC. I will also second what another poster said, get your check airman letter if you can. You can always get some SIC jet time somewhere. The PIC time can be harder to come by.

On a less serious note, the time in the 1900 was some of the best flying I ever got to do. I would go back to that plane in a heartbeat if it paid (and the AC worked, and the schedule was better ). Good luck and have fun!

proletariatav8r

It’s all about your total log book. If you have the right time, you don’t need the contacts as much. If you have the right contacts, then you don’t need the right time as much. Then factor in how competitive the job market is at the time too. But the right contacts usually can surmount, or elevate you above the competition.

If your are like most of us, then a blend of time is more competitive. Pilatus time on top of CFI time may get you somewhere but that pilot won’t be as competitive as one with ME Turbine time.

Employers want to see you successful in the flying that they are hiring into. The closest type of flying you can get, the better you are able to say in the interview essentially, “look, you fly jet-glass from A to B, with a crew, that’s what I’ve been doing for the last four years, was successful there, and I’ll be successful with you.”

If you can't say that, then you need to prove that you are trainable and will be able to get up to speed quickly.

What can be so exasperating are those stories of the friend of a friend who got hired at Delta/Southwest/FedEx/UPS etc. with 1800 hours of Piper Meridian time. You never know the back story of a person and why something happened for them. All you can do is enjoy the process, the “trip” if you will, not the destination, and know that one day you will look back on your earlier flying as probably the best flying you ever did.

USMCFLYR

Exactly! This was my biggest hurtle too. Trying to get into flying that I had no experience in. I felt that a large part of whatever interview I eventually got (and it was true) was spent proving that I coould be successful in a totally different environment. Highlight the challenges of what ever training and environment that you do come from and your successes!

As for the original question of the thread - - I would have chosen TPIC also to a certain point (seems the 1000 TPIC is a magic number) and then moved on to the next hardest column to gain experience in. Once you have all of the blocks checked then it is timing and contacts.

USMCFLYR