Originally Posted by
FNGFO
Maybe my class was an outlier or something, but I would say that everyone had 8-12000 hours TT, 3-4000 hours of Turbine PIC and everyone was a regional CA, 135 chief pilot or fractional check airman.
I think there was one regional FO in the class, and he didn’t make it through. But that was a lack of effort thing and not a lack of experience thing.
I’m sure other classes are filled with guys having less experience. And getting hired at any major with 2-3000 TT is probably still well outside the fat area of the bell curve.
In my class of 16 there were multiple regional FOs. There were several guys with less than 3000 TT, including myself. I think it's definitely possible, even likely that Spirit will continue hiring people with no Turbine PIC.