Originally Posted by
YAKflyer
I did not and do not question your motives. However, your comment came across to me as a little condescending towards those who have a strong helicopter background. I'm usually more of a lurker, but I thought I through my post I could do a little educating by sharing my experiences.
Not condescending, I have a little helo stick time so I have an appreciation, and rode plenty of them in the military.
Originally Posted by
YAKflyer
I agree to their credit SKW has been able to keep their standards high in the past, but it makes no sense to me to bypass someone who meets FAA requirements while running classes with vacancies. Anyone who holds an ATP MEL and a jet type would be much more qualified than the 1000 hour instructors SKW used to put in the Bro regardless of how much total FW time he has. It seems to me in this case there needs to be a little more enlightenment exercised.
Not my call. There's a guard helo unit at SLC and some of those guys are or have been SKW management so I wouldn't say RW is under-represented there.