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Old 01-08-2017, 06:37 AM
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BeatNavy
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Originally Posted by FLY6584 View Post
This couldn't be more wrong.

The military background helps you get hired by a Legacy with a lot less hours than straight civilian.

The quickest and more importantly the cheaper way to the airlines is to go to UPT with the guard/reserves which gets you all of your ratings free of charge. Hit 750 hours and get your restricted ATP, also courtesy of having a military background, and then immediately go fly for the regionals. Continue to fly at the regionals and in the Guard until a Legacy calls.

Or you could spend a lot more money getting your ratings, slug it out as a CFI until 1500hrs, go to a regional, and slug it out there even longer because your hour requirement will be higher than a military guy.

IMO this is a no brainer.
This is a "no brainer" if your mindset is in the lost decade when legacy/major hiring was at a trickle. Straight civilian he could be at a regional easily in 2 years and major in 4-6 based purely on the retirements. If he goes to UPT he will finish UPT and Altus in 2-3 years at the rate it's going, have a few hundred hours, then get a few hundred hours a year. If he volunteered for a bunch of deployments, it'd take 5-6 years from now to get hired by a regional and 7-8 min to get hired at a major by my napkin math and guesstimations.
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