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Originally Posted by bgmann
DONT COME HERE. I am an FO and have been here 3 months. Unless you can't go anywhere else, don't come here. High attrition and it's for a reason.
If your still interested in ACC give me a private message. I will answer any questions and give you specifics.
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bgmann might be a little disenchanted with ACC right now. I'm flying for them currently, bgmann is right in warning you about being careful this is the type of flying you want to do, but it can be an ok first job for some.
The equipment is all Shorts SD3-30's and SD3-60's. They are 1980's era aircraft with very basic avionics and comms, no auto pilot, not very comfortable to fly in the winter months in the cold or wet. They are turbine ME so you are building that time and upgrade can be as soon as or close to you getting 1200 hours depending on company need (as bgmann says due to attrition). The company makes everyone sign a one year $7500 training contract. They are not likely to let that go if you leave after a few months...will send you to collections to collect the debt from what I have heard. Routes are pretty much given based on seniority, so when you are new, you are likely to get a base you do not want such as Charleston, WV or Beckley,WV (these two locations seem to be our junior F/O slots). A night typically starts at your base, loading the plane(we are a feeder for two companies, UPS & DHL. DHL loads the plane on their routes. We help load/unload on UPS routes at the outstation bases) flying inbound to the sort(SDF or CAE) waiting for the unload, sort, and reload, flying back to base. We get paid a base salary, so block time, flight time, duty time does not play into the equation. Most crews on UPS runs see duty times of 12 hours or more a night. The night schedule can be hard to get used to, it has for me.
If you want more info let me know. Hope this helps as well.