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Ok Mr. Moderator, you [...] mentioned most of the regionals hiring. If they didn't have a problem filling classes then why is it that RAH can't staff over 50% of the Q400 they were awarded a year ago. Someone is paying leases on these airplanes while they sit in the desert.
I didn't say they
were able to fill those classes, I said I am pretty sure they are not really trying to or are totally ineffective at the task. I have ample evidence there is currently no pilot shortage. Why would they let them sit idle? I have no real clue. Incompetence probably. They sure aren't trying very hard to get me in any of them, and they were definitely incompetent at my interview. I also know lots of other pilots who are having the same issues. We apply, we interview, we go home.
...You have attended a number [...] of interviews but you are not being offered a job. Sorry pal but there is something wrong with you or you have so much time that they don't think you will be there long enough for ROI...
It might be my age is a bit high and they are profiling a bit maybe, no 121 or military background and no turbine time. But more than those things I think it is incompetence in their HR departments. In connection with the latter, I had one one of them tell me they had not received my PRIA forms when I indeed turned all of them them in. Another said that I had put sim hours into my total time; another said I had no pilot license at all. All baloney, totally ridiculous HR incompetence, what can I say. You can't do their job for them if they are going to be that dense.
...You mentioned that you can be trained to fly these airplanes safely and I am not sure if you are implying that your flying has some areas that require work before you can attend 121 training.
Meant what I said. Perfectly trainable as-is. I am solid pilot material and have been for the last ten years. I have also about had enough of this punishing little industry. You seem to want to stick it on me on this thread and the Eagle thread that I can't get hired by a regional, but I do not buy it. Sorry, I just don't, and I do not buy that all these other folks I see going home are that bad either.