Originally Posted by
3inthegreen
Are you white? Male? Middle class? Are you married to the (American, United, Delta) chief pilots daughter? Are you currently a captain? Do you have more than 10K total time with 5K turbine PIC? Did you serve in the military? Did you fly in the military? Did you fly fighters or go to test pilot school? Are your squadron buddies writing 5, 6, even 7 letters of recommendation for you? Are you an astronaut? Do you have an MBA? A degree in something other than aviation? Do you have a charity or foundation you spend 20 hours a week working at?
I think I know the answer to most of these questions. You probably have a restricted ATP, are waiting for IOE, and have a Riddle sticker on your brand new kit bag.
Now to help you understand how ignorant you are. Go to Costco today and buy 5 large boxes of paper. Each box contains 10 reams, each ream has 200 sheets. No go home and open all 50 reams of paper, dump all 10,000 sheets on your floor. In this stack of 10,000 sheets take one and write your name on it. This one sheet represents you among the 10,000 applicants at the legacy carriers.
Now put your piece of paper at the bottom of the stack. This is where the legacy hiring departments view you right now. Now crinkle your piece of paper up to represent the prick attitude you have and the fact you work at PSA.
Hang in there though, in 20 years you will be lucky enough to have American look at your crinkled piece of paper. But when the hiring board puts two and two together and realize what an a$$ you are, they will put your crinkled piece of paper right back to the bottom of the pile. Enjoy being a captain of an RJ. It will be the highlight of your career.
Best post yet! The only thing I would change is to add about another 5,000 to these stacks. Probably at least 15,000 other regional, corporate, and military pilots out there with far more flight time and experience ahead of these PSA quick upgrade chasers who think they will just "get PIC and go to a major".
The Current regional CA's with 7-10k+ TT and check all the boxes understand this very well. We try to tell the newbies but they are oblivious and ignore it like it isn't real. "Gotta get that TPIC and get to a major in 3yrs". Lol. United recruiter just told me they had 8,000 qualified apps on file. Over 4,000 were highly competitive. Competitive was averaging around 8,000 hrs TT and they can be highly selective. Delta is twice as picky.
People with 2500-3500TT and 1000PIC thinking they will be on the fast track arent going anywhere. Hell, you can't even go to Spirit or Jetblue with those times because you won't even meet the minimums there, and nowhere near the actual competetive mins.