Originally Posted by
jeffang53
You're correct...they are all 350s so it does come with the type rating. I also believe they train straight through to PIC. As I see it, I will build ME turbine time (PIC). From what I can tell, I need 400 more turbine hrs to meet the mins at the legacy carriers. I will easily get that in a year. The only advantage of a regional would be the jet time and P121 experience.
Thanks for all the great inputs!
Which considering your previous background and experience are significant advantages.
Yes - I believe when you go through the training you will be given a full PIC type ride - but you will probably be assigned as SIC initially for a majority, if not all, of your flights OCONUS. If you are interested in building that ME TPIC time for the majors then you'll need to only log the time when actually assigned as the PIC of the mission as PIC time - otherwise you'll be logging SIC time. Hopefully some of the pilots we have here on APC who are actually flying OCONUS missions for L3 will be able to answer the question of PIC -vs- SIC time for new hires and projected upgrade time in conjunction with how much time they usually fly as the PIC and how much time they fly on average in a year (or during a 60/60 rotation).