Question about getting hired
09-15-2011, 02:03 PM
#12
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Joined APC: Jul 2011
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Yea, you’re over qualified for regionals. With your time, get that TPIC ASAP! That's all the matters for you.
Plus, here’s a dirty little secret that you're bumping up against on the back end... There's a "happy" time range, between 4000 to 6000 hours. After that, there is a consensus that thinks, "ok, dude has 9,000 hours. Why does he want to come here and fly an E190 outta Philly and make south of 50G's for the first three years?" I was incredulous when I heard that one.
It's happened to many of us in the generation tho, you are desperate to log that time, have your head down and fly those bids, and then you wake up one morning to reconcile your log book again after a few months and one day you are sitting on some high flight time. For most of us, the last 3-4 years should have been in the right seat of a narrow body with "________" Airlines. But here we are.
Is "high time" a deal breaker, no, but there is that sweet spot, and anything other than that starts to become a liability. You think I’m splitting hairs? Try sorting through six thousand qualified, ready to go pilots, all who exceed the times by a mile, and half who drink beers with so and so at XYZ airlines, then you'll see the microscopic hairs that get split between candidates.
So it's all beyond your control, get into the left seat of something with a couple turbines. Quickly.
Curious, where have you been flying to find 5000+ in your log book, only 250 TPIC and you're looking at a regional? Lots of corp/135?
Oh, and upside to regionals? It's not flight instructing, you push a button and coffee shows up in your hand, sweet!
That's all I got.
Plus, here’s a dirty little secret that you're bumping up against on the back end... There's a "happy" time range, between 4000 to 6000 hours. After that, there is a consensus that thinks, "ok, dude has 9,000 hours. Why does he want to come here and fly an E190 outta Philly and make south of 50G's for the first three years?" I was incredulous when I heard that one.
It's happened to many of us in the generation tho, you are desperate to log that time, have your head down and fly those bids, and then you wake up one morning to reconcile your log book again after a few months and one day you are sitting on some high flight time. For most of us, the last 3-4 years should have been in the right seat of a narrow body with "________" Airlines. But here we are.
Is "high time" a deal breaker, no, but there is that sweet spot, and anything other than that starts to become a liability. You think I’m splitting hairs? Try sorting through six thousand qualified, ready to go pilots, all who exceed the times by a mile, and half who drink beers with so and so at XYZ airlines, then you'll see the microscopic hairs that get split between candidates.
So it's all beyond your control, get into the left seat of something with a couple turbines. Quickly.
Curious, where have you been flying to find 5000+ in your log book, only 250 TPIC and you're looking at a regional? Lots of corp/135?
Oh, and upside to regionals? It's not flight instructing, you push a button and coffee shows up in your hand, sweet!
That's all I got.
09-15-2011, 05:14 PM
#13
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Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,285
The water, soda, and coffee at the regionals were a definite plus! The seats were more comfortable and recline nicely, but the biggest upside I would have to say is hard days off. Junior manning doesn't count since you can refuse or not answer your phone.
Also the jumpseat privileges were a huge upside... too bad you can't afford anything once you get to your destination =)
To the OP, you stated you don't want a contract, since you don't plan to be there long, which makes me think that this is to fill some international contract carrier requirement, or maybe an Emirates/Etihad type requirement. My only advice with that is to plan for the worst, and hope for the best... go to a regional where if things don't work out as planned, you are alright being stuck there for the next 5 years.
So that means apply by looking at which bases are close to where you live (even though bases come and go). Or just pick Skywest since we all know that they will absorb any growth in the regional industry.
Also the jumpseat privileges were a huge upside... too bad you can't afford anything once you get to your destination =)
To the OP, you stated you don't want a contract, since you don't plan to be there long, which makes me think that this is to fill some international contract carrier requirement, or maybe an Emirates/Etihad type requirement. My only advice with that is to plan for the worst, and hope for the best... go to a regional where if things don't work out as planned, you are alright being stuck there for the next 5 years.
So that means apply by looking at which bases are close to where you live (even though bases come and go). Or just pick Skywest since we all know that they will absorb any growth in the regional industry.
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