There are plenty of threads in the past year or so that have refered to the problems with street CA jobs at Mesa so I won't go into it too much more, but the hour thing tends to bug me too. I think the real problem with a 250 hour pilot is how arrogant they seem to be. They think they are ready for the shuttle or something and it really gets under my skin. I still consider myself low time and I have well over the mins for major carrier I can think of. I attending sim training right now for another a/c but I think I am the most cautious person in the class. I am not in the business of telling the guy sitting next to me that has 5 or 6 types and 10,000 hours how he doesn't know how to fly. Regardless of what many might think experience although not ALWAYS right usually wins over youthful arrogance. That includes 1500 hour street CA's.
In concluion if you are going to take that route you would be best suited to bow your head and take all the advice you can get and plan on studying as if your life depended on it.
Regardless of what other new guys that like to say they have been flying at Mesa for a while and know what goes on over there like to post, I KNOW that almost 33% of the CA's I worked with recieved violations. That doesn't mean they aren't flying today, just that they don't have clean tickets anymore. I don't think anyone is above these problems. I am greatful that I didn't caught in any of those problems in my stay with the company.

The final thought I leave you with is when you have finished researching this on the other threads that discuss it and consider yourself informed, just STOP.....and think why a company the size of Mesa that has been around for 25 years should have to hire street CA's? I think you know the answer.

Oh and sorry for the typing and grammar...I just fly airplanes