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#21
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Went to the open house on Monday(for QX) and JH made it pretty clear interviews are not about pilot quals. anymore. Everyone at this level is qualified, you need to be involved and give back in your community, be social, ie come and meet them when ever you can at career fairs.
Went to the open house on Monday(for QX) and JH made it pretty clear interviews are not about pilot quals. anymore. Everyone at this level is qualified, you need to be involved and give back in your community, be social, ie come and meet them when ever you can at career fairs.
#22
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I passed the coveted 3000TT, but not close enough to the 4000TT for a lot of "preferred" times.
Not sure if there is a military sortie conversion with Alaska, but most of the reading I have done shows Alaska is very PRO military.
I think if you're close, apply and see where it goes. 'Course, I have no insight into Alaska's hiring, just off of what I've read.
BTW, thank you for your service!
Not sure if there is a military sortie conversion with Alaska, but most of the reading I have done shows Alaska is very PRO military.
I think if you're close, apply and see where it goes. 'Course, I have no insight into Alaska's hiring, just off of what I've read.
BTW, thank you for your service!
#23
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Just too bad there's no standard military conversion for the airlines.
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It'd be nice if the military counted hours like the FAA allows, but even then, don't know if that would help very many fighter guys get over the 1500TT hump.
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I know it is something nobody wants to do, but I would imagine a military guy (esp a fighter guy) would have his choice of airlines after 6 months of 121 at a regional. I say (if you can) hit the regionals up for 121 time
#27
Yeah, that's true. Hard for the fighter guys, the ones who get out after their initial commitment will have been flying for 10 years and won't have enough time to get an ATP.
It'd be nice if the military counted hours like the FAA allows, but even then, don't know if that would help very many fighter guys get over the 1500TT hump.
It'd be nice if the military counted hours like the FAA allows, but even then, don't know if that would help very many fighter guys get over the 1500TT hump.
Is there something wrong with military pilots keeping their own logbooks and recording block time?
#28
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After every flight, you fill out a maintenance time sheet along with your training sheet (recording your events you logged, like takeoffs, landings, approaches and then military specific things like airdrops, assault landings, etc) and a flight review. Those times are logged from takeoff to land and are used to update the airframe time and for certain upgrades, to aircraft commander, instructor, evaluator and such.
Conceivably, I could go back and put every sortie into a logbook, but 1600+ sorties, with quite a few locations that are considered classified, you end up with a big mess of different times. And, I know there's been at least a few times when I just didn't have the time (no pun intended) to write the actual "block time out" down.
Not a worry for me, I just feel for the fighter guys who need every .1 and .2 they can get.
#29
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I guess nothing at all, but it conflicts with the way it's done by the office that records those numbers.
After every flight, you fill out a maintenance time sheet along with your training sheet (recording your events you logged, like takeoffs, landings, approaches and then military specific things like airdrops, assault landings, etc) and a flight review. Those times are logged from takeoff to land and are used to update the airframe time and for certain upgrades, to aircraft commander, instructor, evaluator and such.
Conceivably, I could go back and put every sortie into a logbook, but 1600+ sorties, with quite a few locations that are considered classified, you end up with a big mess of different times. And, I know there's been at least a few times when I just didn't have the time (no pun intended) to write the actual "block time out" down.
Not a worry for me, I just feel for the fighter guys who need every .1 and .2 they can get.
After every flight, you fill out a maintenance time sheet along with your training sheet (recording your events you logged, like takeoffs, landings, approaches and then military specific things like airdrops, assault landings, etc) and a flight review. Those times are logged from takeoff to land and are used to update the airframe time and for certain upgrades, to aircraft commander, instructor, evaluator and such.
Conceivably, I could go back and put every sortie into a logbook, but 1600+ sorties, with quite a few locations that are considered classified, you end up with a big mess of different times. And, I know there's been at least a few times when I just didn't have the time (no pun intended) to write the actual "block time out" down.
Not a worry for me, I just feel for the fighter guys who need every .1 and .2 they can get.
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If the usual .3 per sortie didn't add up to what a mil pilot logged/put on their app, it's gonna make it interesting to explain in an interview why there is a discrepancy over the way the airline wants it per their instructions vs. what could be a different number.
Seriously, EVERY airline has been doing this the same way. I don't think that if the above case happened, the HR folks would say "My god, that's brilliant! Screw the way we've been doing it for decades, you have shown us the way, YOU'RE HIRED!!!!!"
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