Originally Posted by
duece12345
Well, I am an AC herk bum. I have 1200tpic and roughly 2400TT, mostly herk and UPT. I was just told buy a legacy chief pilot that since I have no jet or FMS time, I should go to the regionals for a year or two to get that and my TT up. Hey said then they would "pick me up". I wish I would have got on with a regional years ago. Apparently you need more that TP time now days. Go get a rj job and mil leave the hell out of it until the bumming slows down, then go back. My .02. I wish I would have gone that route.
This is what I was afraid of. Many of the old heads at the squadron have scoffed at the idea of us needing to go to the regionals to be competitive. Of course when they all went through, any mil flying (TP or not) directly to Majors, was the norm. Although the mil time is still extremely valuable, I feel there is an industry priority shift towards the importance of advanced jet, FMS, glass time that wasn't there in the "olden" days.