Originally Posted by
frmrbuffdrvr
I would think an upgrade to MIA would be very possible once you have another 3-400 hours in your book... Our "book" number for the metro is 2500 hrs TT but most in house transitions have been going in the 16-1800 hour range.
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Originally Posted by
frmrbuffdrvr
Because realistically, from an experience standpoint, it takes more than 6 months for a 1200-1300 hour pilot to get where they can truly handle an airplane like a metro.
So which one is it scooter? Is this poor guy gonna get his upgrade to MIA in a reasonable amount of time or not? Talking to him you say 300 hours (about 6 months of flying on a lot of 99 runs) and you can upgrade to MIA and a metro, and then just a couple posts later you say it takes longer than 6 months to upgrade. How much longer? A year, 18 months?
So here you have this guy making a career decision based upon folks telling him his potential upgrade time is significantly under a year. The SAME thing happened to me. I was told i would have opportunities to bid what my family needed, and that didn't happen. It wasn't my logbook times or my qualifications, I was a training captain, no failed checkrides etc. No responses on my requests, either positive or negative. My emails, phone calls, and requests went largely into a black hole. So I quit at 11 months with the company. Had management at least given me the dignity of a response to my requests, I most likely would still be flying Amazon boxes full of junk. If it wasn't a crap place to work your employees might stick around. Try not answering your supervisors phone calls, texts or emails for a month and see if you don't get fired. Why shouldn't it work the other way?
I apologize for "trolling" this thread by trying to insert a little bit of honesty. Ameriflight doesn't give a damn about its pilots outside of them being bags of meat which take their cargo from point A to point B. I'm still waiting for my pay issue from November to be resolved. That's how much they care. Potential new hires deserve to hear that side of the story.
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