Originally Posted by
full of luv
I think Delta has that too... 500 hours unless they have done away with that requirement.... to lazy to look it up.
I once flew with an Express Captain who was still bitter because he was a PAN AM professional engineer that came over to Delta and when the union negotiated them spots on the pilot list if they had the credentials, went out on a LOA to get his tickets then came to Delta and had to fly 500 hrs as copilot before bidding captain. I was too new to fully care, but somehow he thought he had been wronged in the whole transaction.
This came to mind as I recall a guy who had been in the training command since he came on the property and was a rotor head prior to that (not that there's anything wrong with that😳
. He was the head of NATCO for a while. He decides to go back to the line for a few years on the 757 before he retires and he doesn't have the min right seat time to be a CA.
I'll put my confidence in the 14 month Bad Dog CA way before a guy like that.
Far more depth of experience there than a career desk driver.