Originally Posted by
yimke
While it is valuable time, it will be mostly overlooked.
I think what you meant to say was, as far as SOLEY using flight experience as the metric, it's not as competitive as other forms of TPIC. AGAIN, just using flight time as the metric.
Originally Posted by
Aviation4395
How can PC12 PIC time be valuable but overlooked? For example, let's say you have 2 regional FOs. The first one has only 121 SIC time. The other has 121 SIC and also 1000 PIC turbine in a Pilatus. Who gets the call?
The problem is, it's NOT THAT SIMPLE. YMIKE summed it up.
In a sea of applicants, it's NOT just flight time being used. As mentioned, pilots WITHOUT TPIC are getting hired. IF it was based SOLEY on flight time and type of flight time being the SOLE qualifier, you wouldn't see a single non TPIC candidate "get the call". Not now anyway.
Originally Posted by
yimke
TPIC does not carry the weight it used to. More FOs at XJT are hired at Major airlines than captains.
A friend of mine has showed me that data. It's not that "more FO's get hired at major airlines". It's simply more FO's leave than CA's in certain months.
Extrapolate how many have left for OTHER REGIONALS and it swings the other direction. You ALSO have to factor in that a larger and larger number of FO's now (vs. earlier hiring eras) are pretty experiences. Military pilots needing currency, a recycled pilot that may have left the career and has NOW entered and needed to be current, etc.