Originally Posted by
barabek
All those types and only 104 ME?! That's the reason you're not getting any calls. It looks like you bought your ratings, and that's considered rather fishy, at least in this country. Nobody does that, well except the people who target Southwest.
On the other hand I agree with you 100% on the pilot shortage. There's nothing like that. It's all one big myth, a story invented by greedy regionals and big flight schools with their lobbying teams, and reinforced and spread out by naive pilots hoping they'll make it in to the left seat in a heavy of one of the legacies one day. All just wishful thinking, a dream that never comes true, (at least to most of us). Look aroud, regionals are filling all their classes, some are still very selective and refuse most of the aplicants. They spread the false information in order to change the recent legislation that doesn't play in their favor. However, the truth is they have no problem filling up their classes. Yes, they used to have thousands of applications, now maybe hundreds. Yes, there are examples like Great Lakes that can't attract anyone (we all know why), but other than that, business as usual. Maybe I'm wrong and the situation will change in the future (trust me, I really want to be wrong), but all I see right now is reshuffling of flying between regionals, and the FOs are following it with a hope of an upgrade. Wait till the big ones like Expressjet and Envoy will stagnate and start downgrading next year, there will be lines of experienced pilots ready to start once again at the bottom at PSA, Mesa, Gojet, TSA, Compass, etc. hoping to upgrade quickly and have a shot at a major. Some will aplly at Skywest, Republic, Horizon, or Endeavor hoping for stability of big operations or some enigmatic flow through. Trust me, there will be many different reasons and excuses, mostly to justify the lateral move to ourselves.
Anyways, good luck, and yeah, drop those type rationgs off your resume for now, and prepare a good explanation story for the interview, they'll ask you about it for sure (unless you apply for Mesa, they won't see your certificate over the phone...).
well i paid for the ratings myself (if thats what you mean) i know i dont have much time and im not doing P2F! so i tried everything i could think of to try to get a job. i assumed that if im applying against others with the minimum and i have this and that maybe it might get me noticed as someone who is motivated and not just trying to get get by. another example is they want an applicant to hold a fcc restricted radiotelephone license so i got the general... it may seem minor to you but any and all i could do to get noticed , but so far its been to no avail.
i also thought if i could get a type rating it would demonstrate to the airline i was capable of passing their training .
I paid for the ME time too (mostly apache but was cheap at the time)
did the commercial first in ME then SE, IFR I did in ME and also CFI was ME first and then SE. actually cheaper to do that way.
when i apply for a big jet job they always want 500 hours in type. its a catch 22.
nobody wants to work for gr8 lakes because the salary isnt even enough to pay for your student loans let alone you food
the airlines were spoiled having 50 applicants for every job now its 10.
i read somewhere that some regional wanted to hire 50 but only hired 28.
(they failed to mention how many applied)
thanks for reply
