Originally Posted by
AV8R72
I’m not saying that at all. I’m asking questions simply because I do not know and want to make a good choice.
Here’s a little about me. I’ve got about 5k rotor hours, a masters degree, IP in 2 helps, and making the jump with 15 years in the army.
I hope you are planning on staying with Guard/Reserve/IRR after you leave AD. Fifteen years is a lot to leave on the table for retirement that is more assured than anything else in this fickle industry.
Originally Posted by
NoValueAviator
“1000 TPIC magic bullet”
This number comes directly from AA when they are asked to define a well-qualified street regional applicant at hiring events. It isn’t a magic bullet by any means, and they are still looking for important factors like personality, cognitive ability and particularly diversity from street hires.
AQP is kinder, gentler airline training. It has a marginally better pass rate than traditional airline training and is much more forgiving - you can repeat maneuvers within certain parameters, for example - instead of getting slapped with a 5+ mark of shame and termination for messing up a steep turn.
1000 hours 121 PIC may define a “well qualified” street applicant, but how many of those do the regionals have? Plenty. The number that have Masters Degrees or even Bachelors is much less, but “well qualified” still isn’t necessarily where they are actually hiring.