SkyWest ?’s
08-27-2022, 02:36 PM
#4471
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,245
all the 175’s are on 12 year contracts. From the date they go into service.. so Some are 12 years some are 8ish.. CRJ’s are less 2-4 years. But are paid off (most of them)
08-27-2022, 09:56 PM
#4472
On Reserve
Joined APC: May 2022
Position: 1900C FO
Posts: 23
Thanks
It’s the Knowledge Validation, basically the oral. You’ll have 7 validation events, 6 is done at the training center and your line check after IOE is the 7th.
Be sure to study up. There are gouges available for the indoc and systems validations (written tests on your iPads). For Procedures be sure to know your flows cold, and read the syllabuses and presentation slides before you show up to know what you’re doing. Maneuvers is in the full motion sim, same deal with reading ahead. LOFT is putting it all together, same deal. Your KV is an oral and anything covered from Indoc and ground is fair game. There’s a study guide available but the examiners do not go off of it, they’ll ask you about the walk around, systems, limitations, memory items, human factors, and deicing procedures. Anything is fair game, study up and know everything cold. If you just go off the study guide, you’ll fail, if you review everything you’ll pass. Make sure there’s no deficiencies in any subject matter. I was weak on deicing (they didn’t cover it in ground, and touched upon it in PT), and so that’s how it became an unsat.
Anyways good luck, it’s a lot of drinking from a fire hose but you will get through if you put the work in and have a good attitude. Choose a good sim partner early on and you will succeed.
Be sure to study up. There are gouges available for the indoc and systems validations (written tests on your iPads). For Procedures be sure to know your flows cold, and read the syllabuses and presentation slides before you show up to know what you’re doing. Maneuvers is in the full motion sim, same deal with reading ahead. LOFT is putting it all together, same deal. Your KV is an oral and anything covered from Indoc and ground is fair game. There’s a study guide available but the examiners do not go off of it, they’ll ask you about the walk around, systems, limitations, memory items, human factors, and deicing procedures. Anything is fair game, study up and know everything cold. If you just go off the study guide, you’ll fail, if you review everything you’ll pass. Make sure there’s no deficiencies in any subject matter. I was weak on deicing (they didn’t cover it in ground, and touched upon it in PT), and so that’s how it became an unsat.
Anyways good luck, it’s a lot of drinking from a fire hose but you will get through if you put the work in and have a good attitude. Choose a good sim partner early on and you will succeed.
08-28-2022, 06:24 AM
#4473
On Reserve
Joined APC: Dec 2021
Posts: 18
Did you all unionize?
Hey everyone,
Haven't paid attention to the regional game in a while, but thought I'd pop in and see what was going on with all the pay raises and such. Did ya'll unionize or something and I didn't hear about it? I keep seeing SAPA and a TA mentioned, but I definitely feel like I would have heard about you unionizing. If so, I'm stoked for you all!
Haven't paid attention to the regional game in a while, but thought I'd pop in and see what was going on with all the pay raises and such. Did ya'll unionize or something and I didn't hear about it? I keep seeing SAPA and a TA mentioned, but I definitely feel like I would have heard about you unionizing. If so, I'm stoked for you all!
08-28-2022, 08:37 AM
#4474
Line Holder
Joined APC: May 2022
Posts: 57
Hey everyone,
Haven't paid attention to the regional game in a while, but thought I'd pop in and see what was going on with all the pay raises and such. Did ya'll unionize or something and I didn't hear about it? I keep seeing SAPA and a TA mentioned, but I definitely feel like I would have heard about you unionizing. If so, I'm stoked for you all!
Haven't paid attention to the regional game in a while, but thought I'd pop in and see what was going on with all the pay raises and such. Did ya'll unionize or something and I didn't hear about it? I keep seeing SAPA and a TA mentioned, but I definitely feel like I would have heard about you unionizing. If so, I'm stoked for you all!
Pay Raises: Captain Pay up significantly, FO pay raised barely above inflation and will squarely put OO at bottom of the regionals for FO pay over the next four years as Endeavor will for sure leapfrog OO and Horizon will minimum match OO. Everyone else has already been ahead of OO for months.
New TA: very few QoL improvements and one QoL step back (EFB notification of reflow at end of trip, mostly rough for commuters). Pilot Profit Sharing gone. Captain retention bonus payment inexplicably delayed a month and a half for those already owed it, and completed erased --err, "built into the pay scale" for future captains.
Carrot: FOs can get Captain pay at 750 hours, but that's ONLY if they have an unrestricted upgrade bid in meaning they'd have no choice on domicile. And I'm less sure about this next statement but I believe the unrestricted bid also means they'd have to take the first captain upgrade assigned regardless of airplane (I could be wrong on this point).
Subplot: Commutair and Mesa announced massive pay upgrades days before and after our TA, making our TA somewhere between laughable and insulting.
08-28-2022, 09:48 AM
#4477
New Hire
Joined APC: Aug 2022
Posts: 2
Base Assignment Reality
I am a CFI on track to meet ATP mins next March. The main reason I am interested in Skywest is their bases in the south west U.S. I'm really hoping for a southern California or Phoenix assignment. For people with more knowledge than me, is my hope realistic at all? Do any new hire FO's ever get these locations or should I just expect to commute from Southern California for a few years?
08-28-2022, 09:52 AM
#4478
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2016
Posts: 891
08-28-2022, 09:55 AM
#4479
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2021
Posts: 212
I am a CFI on track to meet ATP mins next March. The main reason I am interested in Skywest is their bases in the south west U.S. I'm really hoping for a southern California or Phoenix assignment. For people with more knowledge than me, is my hope realistic at all? Do any new hire FO's ever get these locations or should I just expect to commute from Southern California for a few years?
08-28-2022, 10:42 AM
#4480
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2021
Posts: 68
I am a CFI on track to meet ATP mins next March. The main reason I am interested in Skywest is their bases in the south west U.S. I'm really hoping for a southern California or Phoenix assignment. For people with more knowledge than me, is my hope realistic at all? Do any new hire FO's ever get these locations or should I just expect to commute from Southern California for a few years?
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