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Old 06-30-2014 | 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Rickybobby135
I am a 3,900 TT 1,500 IP in a Tanker, Global and Texan. Scratching my head if I wound up in a throw away pile.
Global = Global Hawk?

If so, how many of your hours? From indoc class last week, straight from the CP: "I don't think we'll ever consider drone pilots."* If your TT and/or IP times minus RPA time are not competitive, then perhaps you did end up in the unqualified stack. Also, which is most recent? If you're currently/most recently flying RPAs, then your flight currency (i.e., lack thereof) could be at issue.

Of course, this could also be the case that many, many others have made here that there's a tall stack of apps being waded through right now. Other than sitting in the room last week and hearing the CP make that statement, I have no insight into how folks are selected to interview. I have no opinion on whether excluding RPA time is "right" or "wrong," just that it is evidently the policy at DAL.


*I'm pretty sure the intent was that drone hours/experience are excluded from consideration of pilot hours/experience, not that anyone who has ever flown an RPA is unhireable.
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