Originally Posted by
jumpseatguru
hello all, I am currently at atp building time. was interested in ameriflight because of their fast upgrade time and pic turbine. quality of life and pay descent for first year fo's ? I know what to expect for regional pay and first year gigs. I work a jumpseat desk at a major airline have a descent idea of the operation but would like some first hand info ..thanks
The big question is how much time do you currently have? We have two FO tracks that we can put people through; E120 FOs and "time builder" FOs. Both pay the same. The primary difference for the FO coming in is that we tend to use the E120 slots for slightly lower time pilots. The reason is we figure they will be in those positions a bit longer which is good for us since those FOs are actually required to operate the aircraft. The other FO positions we like folks with more time coming in so they spend minimal time in the position before we can move them to the left seat of something like a BE99. Think of it as we are paying you to get the rest of your flight time to reach part 135 minimums, so we don't want to do that any longer than absolutely necessary.
The downside to this for pilots looking to come here is we only have a limited number of E120 slots, since we only have 10 aircraft at present. For the other FO slots, since we can put the pilot in any of our other aircraft, we have more opportunities. But, as I said, we like to have folks that are closer to 135 mins coming in for those positions.
Both positions pay the same and the chart here on APC is accurate to our current pay scale.