Originally Posted by MSRVPILOT
That school will tell you anything you want to hear to get you to go there. Take it from me I been there. That was the worst experience of my life. They milk you on everything . IF you can complete an instrument course quickly they will say oh no not good enough more time needed to milk that money. They say oh well get you hired in 600 or less BULL **** . THe staff & the owner is BULL ****. The type rating program is a joke. They want 18,500 just for the CRJ 200 type not including PREP or anyhting just the type! you can go to PAN am IN WASH DC and get it all for 9000 bucks out the door. If you leave before your training is complete they will bad mouth you to the airlines if you go elsewere. They try to completely run your life and its bull ****. I would highly recommend ATP's there program is a whole lot more organnized. I wish i would have known better. I cant stand the staff the owners nothing about the place at all. The quality of training is very poor and many young aspiring pilots chose regional b/c of the promises to someday be an airline pilot. Regional Airline Academy is a joke. They are now implementing a 142 program where you will be finished in 9 mnths and only 350tt and 25 multi and go to an airline. That is no real life experience by that time you are barely capable of flying a Seneca I or Duchess X crnty much less a CRJ. I was personally scammed out of 18,500 by them ! Take it from someone who has dealt with the selfish ****ers dont go there! any questions please feel free to contact me.
I know your story RV boy. I was your instructor there, you saying the quality of training I provided you was poor? Ill whoop your scrawny Mississippi a$$!
Rick, thank you for clerifying that you are opposed to company specific PFT. I too think that is extreem. The training I got at Regional was to make myself marketable, and was not aimed at one airline in particular. Pilots complete the courses at regional in many ways. Some instruct before going to the type, some after (me), and some not at all (MSRVpilot). The point here is that while the pilot may only have a limited number of hours when they get the type rating ( I only had 380), they still instruct for some time before they are eligible for a job. True, they wont instruct very much, but from my 300 hours of dual given(yes I had 680 when hired), I realized the hardest part about it was the first fifty, smooth sailing after that. Also, the type program at regional is only attended by 10% or so of the students, the other slots are filled with good ol' 135 pilots, or long itme CFIs looking to boost their resume. A vast majority of Regional "grads" did not do the type rating. There is a lot of bashing of my school going on, and most of it is not true. I would never venture to say that Regional has got it down pat, but they are pretty good at what they do. Four years of opperations and over 100thousand hours of flight with not a single accident of any kind (couple solos ran of the runway). I guess I'm trying to say, when you meet an FO from my school, don't label them right away as a douch. There was one unfortunate incident with one of our grads that effectively cut the relations the school had with AirWisky. Since then the focus of training has shifted. At first anyone with the money could get recommended by the school to do the type. Now, there is a thourough discusion about each pilot's personality and ethical background before they are allowed to go to the type rating. The result is a higher quality pilot, both socially, profesionally, and ethically. The question of experience comes up alot. To make it quick and save the keystrokes; It sure is a good thing we are FOs, and not captains. Thus far, every captain I have flown with has taught me something extrememly valuable, and I hope that continues till I am ready to move to the left seat. There is no wool over my eyes, I know its going to take some time, and I know I am not ready yet, what I do know is that I need the help from every captain I fly with to get me ready. I look forward to the delays, the ice, the rain and thunderstorms. Bring it on, I want the experience. Oh, and the pay down here sucks, If they paid me anyting less I would have to quit for lack of sustinance, I can hardly afford food on my overnights. I can't wait for the loan payments to start
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I dont think that the people on this thread that are PFTrs fit the bill as you described it. Sure I paid for training, and a type rating, but that was so I could put it on my resume. So I could say "Hey Mr. hiring manager, I already passed this kind of training once, I am not a risk to your company. I wont wash out".
Yeah my last post was a little emotional. I bet if we were all standing in a bar talking about this it would have been over long ago. Punkpilot would be hammered, thats for sure.
Keeping my kool
Nick