Originally Posted by
GTLyon
Although I am extremely green to this forum--let alone the regional industry(which intrigues me btw lol),basically,what is to stop a Mesa pilot that has gone through the PACE program to put in an app.with a new regional after a few months of flying? Seems like a good deal--in a sense--You can get in at low time,bypass a few steps i.e. instructing maybe even save 10-20k on training..well I think you can grasp what I'm saying. Just my .02--
please me nice to me-)
The obstacles are:
1) Low time. Since they come to mesa with 200-300 hours, it takes a while (maybe a year or more on reserve) to reach 1000 hours.
2) Training Contract: Mesa makes you sign a 1 year/ $10K training contract...if you leave early you might have to pay.
Since many regionals are hiring very low-time pilots and the training contract enforceability is legally questionable (and there are ways to make it even more questionable) I suspect that some MAPD grads are getting out in less than one year.
But you would probably save time and money just getting your cfi and teaching for a few months. MAPD is 2 years and a LOT of money...in 2 years and for half the money you could be at SKW. The MAPD person would need two years at MAPD plus at least a year at mesa to get 1000 hours.