Originally Posted by
Jetmcquack1985
Wow, ok that's not encouraging, but I don't think tat elsewhere at least for the fisrt year it would be that different.
In that case, you need to devote more time and effort into educating yourself about the situation. Asking questions is good. Auto-negating when you don't get the response you hoped for is less helpful.
I have friends in Republic and the first years wasn't easy either.
You are confusing "isn't easy" which is frequently the case with newbies getting a type rating and generally commuting to reserve for a considerable period before they can become senior enough to be able to hold a line in a base they like - a status pretty common to most newbies - with having ALL of those problems AND institutional problems of inadequate staffing, old aircraft becoming difficult to maintain, and poor management. The former may be a near universal condition for newbies in ANY regional. The latter is not.
About building PIC time thats another story regardless the base.
No, it is not. Building 121 PIC time is not a function of operating the controls. It is a function of BEING A CAPTAIN. Unless the guy in the left seat should die of a heart attack on a trip, you will log NO PIC, and even if they did, you will log only that interval from the time they died until you either successfully land the aircraft or survive the crash.
Failing your captain dying in the cockpit, your PIC time will be related to how quickly you can upgrade, which has a number of variables. Some of these do indeed vary by base, some by the regional you choose, while others are out of your hands altogether.
Now you don't HAVE to listen to any of the people responding to you, you are a big boy now, but as the previous poster said, you've been warned.