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Old 06-23-2013, 09:50 PM
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fullflank
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Originally Posted by Ultralight View Post
There are hundreds, may be even thousands of regional guys who got the dear John letter from airways too, and I'm sure no response from United or Alaska, and soon American.
If you were a recruiter, would you not be impressed by someones ability to fly multi engine turbine PIC single pilot? CRM, 121 rest rules and multi crew environment can be covered in a few classes.
I still don't think the regional route is mandatory.
I can see that you very badly want the answer to be yes. However as I said before, if you want to know what impresses recruiters you only have to look at who they're calling. The people that overwhelmingly being called have the following: PIC time in a 121, crm, multi-crew environment, in a 50k pound jet or large turbo-prop like a dash/q400. Can you get a call without this type of experience? Yes, but if I was giving career guidance to a little brother who wanted to eventually work for a legacy, I would tell him to go mil or regional asap.
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