Originally Posted by
whiskerbizkit
The likelyhood of being hired with no turbine pic is not good...even tho some have at CAL. For those who got hired with 250TT, its gonna be hard to upgrade if they dont even meet ATP mins. I think those regionals are going to figure that out soon enough, do I hear street ca again?
The newest SF3 CA upgrade award is an August 2007 newhire at Mesaba. Upgrade time is now down to 2 months or less at Mesaba if you have more than 3000 hours and have an ATP. This is mainly because too many FOs with higher seniority before him do not meet the upgrade std. Most regionals have upgrade min time as 3000 hours or more and ATP in hand. So if you start out with 600 hours you will have to fly your ass off for at least 2 1/2 years or more and then upgrade to get the T PIC time. PIC time droning around in a C 172 do not count very much to Majors.