Originally Posted by
Flaps50
You probably won't find many people that care about the profession as a whole more than I do. That is why I am so vocal about the lack of experience thing going on at the regionals these days. 200 hour pilots are being hired because they are cheap labor period; not because there is a lack of experienced pilots available.
I will not contribute to the delinquency of the profession by making excuses for why it is OK to have a "200 hour" copilot flying an FAR121 airliner. It's not good for pilots now and it certainly won't be good for us in the future. I hear everyone talking about a "pilot shortage"... Man wake up; there will never be a shortage of 200 hour degreeless pilots because you can make one in 3 months. PNCL is at the for front of this right now, and I can't stand it and neither should any experienced professional pilot if you know what is good for yourself. The profession is already making an average 30% less today than in 1990 in real dollars what do you think 2020 will be like?
wake up? you seem to be the one away from reality.........man you really need to look at the way you say things and not make up so much...............
I do not know for sure if Pinnacle hires 200 hour pilots (I think the requirement for commercial multi engine instrument pilot is much more than 200 hours at least it was last I saw it) and if they have hired low time pilots (with way more than 200 hours) it may be because these pilots have been trained in a program that includes the aircraft type and it is a valuated program from a highly respected intitution. Those pilots are usually recomended by those places and are usually very talented. I have flown with high time pilots that did not know their stuff very well to put it nicely and I have known many young pilots with relative low time that have been very professional in their way of relating to aviation. The worst example of a pilot that I have flown with was one with over 30000 hours. How he managed to stay alive during all those hours is for me impossible to understand. I know one thing for sure and that is that Pinnacle as all other regionals needs pilots that can upgrade fast to Captain and Pinnacle have among the highest requirements for Captains 3500 TT or 3000 if 500 in type at the company so they would love to hire any decent pilot with the highest experience possible. Saying that they hire low time pilots and ignore pilots with a lot of experience is not the reality of things. Captains is what the Regionals need the most and when they hire a low time pilot they know that it will take 2 to 4 years for that pilot to qualify in TT for a Captain position and during those years a lot of Captains moves on to other jobs so hiring low time pilots is not the best for the Regionals at all.
I am almost sure that If you only have around 300 hours with almost no multi time took your licence in a "regular" flight school that was not a University and have not been recomended by an institution that has given you training in CL65 you will have a hard time getting an invitation for interview. Pinnacle and other regionals are not lowering their minimums because they do not want to pay good salaries. They are all lowering the mins because there are almost no experience pilots left to find out there.