Near 20 Year AD Retirement
#14
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Many do if you meet their ME requirements as a military pilot. Here is one example that talks about it specifically. This is right from Mesa's website Mesa Air Group"*Mesa Airlines recognizes the skills associated with helicopter flying. Rotary Wing time may be included in Total Time, but the applicant must meet the 100 hour Multi-Engine, Fixed Wing requirement."
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Joined APC: May 2009
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FWIW, I'm a helo guy with some Fixed multi, not much. Mesa hired me and currently in training. So far so good. The training department here is awesome. Currently the upgrade time is 17 months. PM me if you have specific questions.
#17
In a ME helo an engine failure is a performance cut.
In a ME airplane, it's a very large performance cut due to aerodynamic losses associated with rudder/aileron use to offset yaw from the good engine. Get slow (easy with a 90% performance loss) and you'll do the Vmc yaw/roll/spin thing. It is a different animal.
But with that said, 100 hours of routine ME FW time doesn't do anything for your engine out skills.
In a ME airplane, it's a very large performance cut due to aerodynamic losses associated with rudder/aileron use to offset yaw from the good engine. Get slow (easy with a 90% performance loss) and you'll do the Vmc yaw/roll/spin thing. It is a different animal.
But with that said, 100 hours of routine ME FW time doesn't do anything for your engine out skills.
#18
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In a ME helo an engine failure is a performance cut that is sometimes unrecoverable. If you are outside of your Single Engine Airspeed range, the Nr droops and the main rotor become useless as you fall to the ground in uncontrolled flight.
In a ME airplane, it's a very large performance cut due to aerodynamic losses associated with rudder/aileron use to offset yaw from the good engine. Get slow (easy with a 90% performance loss) and you'll do the Vmc yaw/roll/spin thing. It is a different animal.
But with that said, 100 hours of routine ME FW time doesn't do anything for your engine out skills.
In a ME airplane, it's a very large performance cut due to aerodynamic losses associated with rudder/aileron use to offset yaw from the good engine. Get slow (easy with a 90% performance loss) and you'll do the Vmc yaw/roll/spin thing. It is a different animal.
But with that said, 100 hours of routine ME FW time doesn't do anything for your engine out skills.
#20
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Joined APC: May 2014
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Looking for suggestions as I near a 20 year retirement. Which is better (1) go to the regionals for a year and try and get hired by a major/legacy once I get the 1,000 hour turbine time they all seem to be looking for or (2) try to get a FW billet on AD and get the FW mins which would take another 3 years or so. I have just over 4,000 TT all turbine, just mostly Helo with about 150 FW turbine hours. I have all the ATP mins minus the FW total time. Just wanted to see what everyone thinks. Appreciate your time and comments.
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