Originally Posted by
paulcg77
This. Fly your ass off in the guard. Volunteer for everything. Go active guard or even consider 1-2 year Title 10/ADT/ADOS (or whatever it's called these days) orders and get AC qualified as soon as possible. If you can do a lot of C17 flying on active duty for a few years, I'd do that over a regional. In addition to the fact that C17 PIC time as an AC is (pound for pound) more valuable than FO on a CRJ-200, you're also building reserve retirement points that count towards your military pension. Every single IDT drill and every day of Title 10/ADOS counts for your reserve pension, even with that bull**** BRS pension system they've introduced for guys like you who joined after 2018.
Are you in an airline HR department and can verify that they view the C17 time as more valuable than CRJ-200 time? Granted, being military FW is a
huge advantage. But much of the apps comes down to electronic scoring and once you get to an hour level I don't think the app cares if you have more C17 time verses CRJ time.
The more boxes you can fill in is normally better. If someone can fill in another type rating, combined military and 121... it starts adding up.
I would say get the minimums needed, then put in apps. once R-ATP minimums are met. When you cross that bridge, weigh the flying opportunities Guard versus regional. We're talking several years from now. Maybe the Guard will be only flying minimums. Maybe they won't be. If you get hired by a regional, check the 121 block and another type rating there is nothing preventing you from then spending most of your time flying Guard side and dropping regional trips. As long as you have orders the regional has to let you do so.
But that's what... 3-5 years down the road? Post again when you cross that bridge. The landscape, both military and civilian, will probably be different.