Originally Posted by
Skyvector
I've noticed this military myth catching on among some circles lately. Talk to a recruiter and/or anyone in hiring. Over the past year military pilots have been less than 1% of our new hires. First, we haven't interviewed that many. Second, nobody in the hiring department is stupid. They know the "just get current" play...we don't like to waste new hire slots.
Please do me and all of us a favor and relay that on eagle lounge or wherever it is that keeps pushing this rumor. Again, talk to the hiring department if you would like to hear it from a non-Internet source.
Maybe so, but last week a guy came up to me in the crew room in Ord and asked if I was a certain check airman doing his IOE. I was not but in talking to him, he said he was " a former KC-130 pilot just getting some 121 time but had his applications already at UAL,DAL,and SWA ".