Originally Posted by
JayBee
Out of those 500 how many are actually qualified?
I personally had two friends attend, both are civilian and PSA doesn't have a civilian RTP program.
Based on the RTAG facebook feed I would guess that maybe 100 of those people were prior military able to start their transition training a year from now.
There were maybe 25 - 50 people able and ready to start a military rotary transition that day.
While there are people in the pipeline - rotor transitions, civilian new starts, etc there will be no huge wave.
All that said, I believe our opportunity to exert the minuscule amount of leverage we may have had has passed us by.
There were certainly more than 100 qualified at the event. The target audience for that group is the ability to transition within 3 years. PSA held interviews over both days of the events, even adding extra interviews onto today to handle the interest. There were over 100 attendees at the PSA meet and greet Friday night. We're still compiling the numbers from the surveys handed out during registration at the event. While it may not be a wave of new hires from this event, which would be limited by the current training capacity anyway, it does seem like a steady stream of qualified applicants will come from this pool for all of the regionals.