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Old 11-07-2013 | 09:15 PM
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boeingsky
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Originally Posted by dmncnpilot
Let me try and answer your questions...

1-In the interview just be yourself man. I've seen some freaking knuckleheads I mean characters in this place so if you have half a brain and are normal you should be ok.

2- United flight bennies, all flights are full and you're in the very last place in the SA list. Welcome to Silver

3-Upgrade time, oh boy...Just believe everything they tell you in the interview so you can wind up being as ****ed off as every other FO here.

4-IDK how easy or hard it is to get WV, it's a Saab base and I believe they are hiring into the Beech but idk.

5-I didn't find training all that super hard as some people describe it, just study and you'll be fine. A good attitude goes a long way in this industry, if you're rotten people aren't going to be willing to help out. Be prepared to be all over the place, idk about the Saab training but the mighty beech training program seems to lack a syllabus, so be ready to do SITS in the middle of ground, put out a fire in the middle of SITS and correct a bunch of power point slides that have never been corrected but will be corrected next time, get my drift? The whole OMG, you need to know your IFR stuff down makes me laugh, please tell me one airline in which you do not need to know how to know IFR?? I took a 4 year break from flying and passed with no issues. But I'm a super genius

6-I truly believe that Silver is only second worse to Great Lakes.

Good luck on your interview, remember be yourself and kick ass.

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I appreciate the advice and the best wishes. And I agree about the IFR stuff. Plus the min hr required are close to the 1500 hr mark. If a pilot has close to ATP mins i would hope they would have instrument flying down. The only instrument area that I lack the most on is STARS. Flying as a lifeguard they always give you priority and most of the time vectors for the straight in. To account for this weakness I just took a friends 310 up to new york and spend 3 days flying as many as i could in to the major airports and am more than comfortable now.

I have been getting some info on here about the Saab training and flying for silver. How does the 1900 compare. Harder or easier training?

so Saab vs 1900

From what I deemed from the recruiter they are trying to fill a Saab class right now.
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