Originally Posted by
prex8390
It's all gonna depend on what you mean by these background issues. Misdemeanors or a felony could be a big difference. Regionals are desperate but they're not gonna a hire someone with jail time for drug trafficking on their record. Guys are still being taken out of training for trivial things on their records. Saw it first hand with the class ahead of mine.
I would think drug trafficking, if done in an airplane would be a valuable resume builder. Difficult flying, probaly less than advanced aircraft,. Challenging airfields, usually unimproved, shows ambition. I'd take a guy flying coke in a Aztec over a CFI with 1500 hours doing touch and goes any day