Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
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3) If you are hired with a wet commercial ticket having skipped CFI work and smalltime commercial work altogether, the 8 week CRJ training period tends to wash out lowtimers more often than 750TT+ pilots who worked up by the standard path. Getting there does not insure staying there, and it is not a very strong likehood that you will.
4) If regionals are as hard up for applicants as you describe there would be evidence they are willing to pay for it. I see no such evidence.
5) Regionals would not only ratchet up the starting payscale, they would post super-low minimums on company websites if indeed it were a severe pilot shortage. They would not depend on a few forums to spread the word.
Nice post but I have to ask, where are you getting these ideas that the company will post super low minimums on there website? That wouldn't look good for them to the general public. I am telling you, they don't care about the minimums and they certainly will not rachet up the pay. LOL! The information I get is from actual F/O's who have been hired on the RJ with 300-400TT: no they did not do the mesa bridge program or any other RJ prep. My dad has been an airline pilot since 1977, seen it all, been there done that. He's been hired at over half a dozen airlines well below their prescribed minimums because they needed pilots. The company website is worthless as far as mins are concerned! Trash that information! Why does everybody think that they have to be right at 500TT/50ME to fly with the RJs? Because the website says so? Come on! If you run a store and usually require certain credentials for employees and all of a sudden nobody wants to work there anymore, you're going to lower the standards before you start forking out more money to pay them, right! Well, I would pay them more but Mr. RJ CEO is not going to do that. He will scrape the bottom before he ponys up the doe!