Originally Posted by daytonaflyer
Flyhigh22,
Stay far away from Mesa's pay for training program! I am a former flight instructor for Mesa Pilot Development's program at Arizona State University. Their ASU program is a quality flight training program with good instruction and hard-working students. Their PFT program in Farmington, NM is crap! It's a major waste of your money, and it will hurt your career if people find out you are a PFT guy.
Just get 600TT and 50 multi, and you can start applying to companies like Scenic Airlines or King Airlines in Las Vegas. They always hire low time guys during the spring and summer. Hiring slows down a lot in the winter months. Both those companies will be hiring a lot in the upcoming months.
I used to work at Scenic, and it is a damn good company. They treat their pilots pretty well, they give you free lunch everyday, and you are home every night. Plus you make about what the average regional pays (more than instructing, but still not much). Good luck.
Say what? Frankly, I don't beleive that you worked for ASU. You sound like a disgruntled Farmingtonite. If you had any first-hand knowledge of MAPD you'd know that Rich Castle, the Chief Flight Instructor, runs an efficient operation.
As a former MAPD instructor I can say that Mesa Airlines will hire almost anyone. The only ones they never hired were those that have skeletons in the closet (hell, they even hired people that shouldn't have been). PFT? It's BS to say that it will hurt your career. Recruiters don't care, they only look at your resume, not how you paid for it. The ONLY people I've ever heard anything negative about was scabs.