Originally Posted by
gasnhaul
Moose, I would normally agree, however look at the new system. I don't think the computer could care less how you got your hours. Whether you're mil or civilian, all the computer is looking at is the number of hours you have...I was a KC-135 IP/EP before crossflowing to the Herc. Unfortunately I only accumulated about 3K hours for various reasons. If the mins are 5K, I'm not too hopeful at this point...
I assume you're a military pilot correct? If so, I am not sure why there's so much doom & gloom in your post?
I've been asking every new hire in the past year that I came across what their backgrounds were and almost all of them are either civilian heavy drivers (Gemini, Omni, World, etc) or military heavy drivers (KC135, etc).
If you have 3,000 hours in KC 135s (as you said in your post) you ARE what they are looking for. The 5,000 number was just an average mentioned, not minimums. Also, I've been to numerous AirInc seminars in the past and I know they always average out the minimums for civilian and military guys. In other words if an average civilian pilot had 6,000 and an average military pilot had 3,000 hours they will say the average applicant had 4,500.
From what I've been told, the software they use does give the military applicants some kind of percentage boost of their flight time. I don't know how much and exactly how it's done but if you ask applicants who are waiting for their interview in the lobby of the trng center, almost every civilian guy/gal there has 1,500 to 2,000 hours more than the military guy/gal sitting right next to them. Of course, everyone knows it's because the flying is totally different.
Either way, my point is I'm not sure why you sound so depressed - you have exactly what they want and if I were you I'd show my ugly face at as many job seminars as it took - I did. Good luck to you.