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Old 08-30-2007 | 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by bne744
I heard a couple of days ago that UND had 5 or 6 applicants for the -700 class they wanna fill in Oct, 750TT and 50 multi are the mins, guess not too many UND guys have that because they are getting snatched up by Mesaba, Piedmont, TSA and all the others that will take UND people with just a Comm/Multi ticket
This is very true. A lot of my friends didn't go to horizon cause they got picked up at great lakes first. CWU mins are 850TT and 50 multi.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think these people need to learn patience. Whats wrong with instructing till you get your mins for a good regional?... It’s not like the pay and QOL are better at a bad regional compared to instructing... Getting on the regional you want first and building seniority is what I think matters most. Not jumping around from regional to regional... but it all boils down to personal preference what kind of lifestyle you want.

I've been tackling this issue of sending out my resume and apps to all those comm/multi min places (Piedmont, TSA and all the others) and at first I got really excited. But then I started to think about it. Do I really want to make less than a manager of McD's and live somewhere I don't want (east coast)... NO. I would rather gain that instructing experience that everyone on here says is so important and become a better pilot first. I can tell you that I am almost 100% I can make it through 121 training and the sim, no problem. I can practice as much as I want in our king air sim for almost nothing and I've already been through Horizons 400 training and it's not that hard if you just pay attention in class, but just because I can doesn't mean I should.

Please any thoughts would really be appreciated. Am I really making the right choice of not going to one of these low time regionals or is instructing over rated?
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