Originally Posted by
darkman62
I was NOT a pilot but got my time & ratings outside the military will this be held against me? If my time is good and everything else being equal will this be a non starter at DL?
Bolded part is key. I may be misreading you, but if you have 1,501 hours in nothing bigger than a Seminole with your ATP (i.e., non-mil time & ratings), and 10K+ hours of non-pilot mil aviation... then "everything else" is NOT equal. Your time as a (non-pilot) military aviator "counts" insofar as your professional background is concerned, but it doesn't mean anything (to DL or any other airline) so far as
piloting experience is concerned. The sweet spot, from reading these boards, appears to be 4K+ hours including significant turbine time. If you've got that, then you should be in the hunt; if not, still apply, but recent stats seem to be against you for the time being.
Flying Elvis already addressed the second part of your post & nailed it....