Thats a bold move to accuse me about lying about flight time..... would you like a tail number to watch me on flight aware?


I am flying in a mooney that I can lean out to 7.2 gph and cruise nice and slow around the western conus. I have no problem hitting all the R-ATP numbers for c/c, night, instrument. I plan on renting a multi somewhere for my multi-training, checkride and the multi-time required for the regional I choose to go to. (Skywest does not mention multi time at all on the 1000 hour R-ATP requirement)

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I agree it may not be the best way to prepare myself for an airline career but, it still does fill in the boxes of what I need to do to get my R-ATP.

I have my CFI checkride this week and I am sure I will work part time doing that in addition to taking long cross countries in my plane to continue building time. There are plenty of CFIs with little multi-time getting hired at many regionals and making it through training.

If I qualify then I qualify- if a company sees me as a risk to have a rough time in training there is nothing I can do about that except to sell myself in the interview, prepare the absolute best I can, and if I have to work harder than some other people to get through it than that is the price I pay for not doing whatever you think is best path to get from 250 hours to 1000.

I am sure not going to take multi-engine SIC cargo job that I only fly for 2 hours a day and then sit for 8 in the middle of nowhere at a company that puts a training bond on me while I am only getting a 8 hours a week when I could be doing that in one day in a single engine.

Maybe the right 135 job will come up that works for me but they usually want at least 500 or 800 hours to hire you and it doesn't make sense to them when I am going to leave 3-6 months after they hire me because I will have a R-ATP and am eligible for 121 carriers and way more $

I try to see where you are coming from. My current career that allows me enough income and time off to do this career change to pilot has also had big changes with the new guys coming in that are from a completely different generation and have a different mindset than the older ones. There have been some adjustments....some of them fail out of training and others figure it out and are successful. Adapt and overcome. I don't expect training to be easy, especially at skywest (which has a good training reputation from what I have researched), I see it like a public service academy or bootcamp. Commit to the program and find a way to succeed.