Hmmmm, here's my current situation: Flying for Mesa out of Honolulu, 300 CRJ SIC hours per year in Hawaii, home every night, 200 surf days per year (sitting reserve with a waterproof phone), waiting for my upgrade in about 1 year. (But junior captain with Mesa Air seriously SUCKS! I'd have to live in ORD, too. Ugh.)

Should I move to Anchorage and do some fun flying with PenAir? I hate this "600 feet, autopilot on" crap. My dream is to fly the light twins for fun, but still use that time to build my twin PIC towards the FedEx minimums.

So fellas, I have two questions:

1) Any PenAir pilots out there who could tell me if I can get hired as a street captain on the smaller twins and still be based in ANC? If not, how long to upgrade?

2) Should I give up this awesome Hawaiian dream life where everything points to a future of hell, or make the move and fly the Cheyenne/Metro for fun?

My times:
1800 hrs TT
1200 hrs PIC (mostly instructing)
600 hrs ME Jet SIC
100 hrs Super-Cub out of Port Alsworth