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I will say however, that 135 PIC gets you a lot of the decision making that doesn't always come with 1000 hours in the right seat. Plus we may not go into the flight levels, but we shoot approaches just as fast if not faster than the RJs, uncoupled, to 1800RVR.
How fast are you shooting an approach in the 135 world? Max landing weight Vref for the CRJ-200 was around 142 before adding any wind or gust factor etc speed bump.Originally Posted by Dokk
Didn't mean to start a ruckus. If offered the left seat in indoc, I personally would want a month or two on the line to at least get accustomed to the new airplane. Just curious how realistic that upgrade was.I will say however, that 135 PIC gets you a lot of the decision making that doesn't always come with 1000 hours in the right seat. Plus we may not go into the flight levels, but we shoot approaches just as fast if not faster than the RJs, uncoupled, to 1800RVR.
And before anybody has a heart attack, my upgrade class of 8 had 1 military, 1 previous 135 and 6 previous 121 pilots. So, for the most part, there's plenty of experience upgrading at Compass.