Originally Posted by TimetoClimb

Practically the only aircraft being manufactured today are shiny jets, most available work is in transport category aircraft. I basically have no way to get my ATP without going to the regionals (unless I wanna shell out 8K more, no thanks). My company doesn't upgrade till 2000hrs , so I'm kinda in a bind. You even said it, the airline training departments may not look favorably but it's legal (lots of guys moving on from seaport, tradewind, boutique, mokulele, capeair etc). If I need to audit the book later to subtract SIC time for the ride, I will have all the information to make that simple, for now I'm segregating the kinds of PIC because in the future I'll want to calculate TPIC without the PIC time I used to meet ATP mins.