rickair,
Are you advocating getting picked up by a regional first, like Republic, to build turbine FW time fast? A lot of blogs mention that crossing from Regionals to Legacy is hard; I'm not sure why. If I left the AF in 2 years, flew regionals (a huge pay cut) until I got the minimum FW turbine, who knows what a Legacy would think of my resume or if they'd even look at me. I wonder how many military pilots have taken this route. Is age not of concern here? I have been told, and the DAL website says, they take into account quality of time versus quantity. I understand your concerns with the landing techniques of a tiltrotor over a FW...makes sense, but I hope a Legacy could see what else my experience has to offer and that I can be taught how to fly a coupled ILS to mins with crappy visibility.

Thanks for your response!

Plopter