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Turbine
I have 3 questions for any AMF'ers out there.
1.)What are the chances of getting hired directly into any turbine equipment? 1.)Would several hundred hours of turboprop time help those chances?
3.) Where are some of the bases for the EMB (Is that a hard plane to get quickly)?
Thanks
Depends on what's available when you interview. Turbine openings go through the internal bidding process first, then they hire off the street if no one fills them internally. We just had bids go out for 4 metros and a BE99 in our eastern bases (CVG, BUF, MIA). Who knows how many will be filled internally.
I'm sure several hundred hours of turboprop time would help (even better if it's muliti and or PIC). Talk to recruiting.
EMB bases are DFW, San Juan, PHX, CVG and BFI. There aren't very many of them, but you can get hired into the right seat as a new hire, Captain might take a while, I'm gonna throw out a number of 3 to 5 years, and you'll probably get typed in something else first.