Originally Posted by
clb2vnav
If you have 1000 121 SIC but no QX time, they’ll evaluate it on a case-by-case basis (speaking from experience.)
But remember these two words: “airport reserve”. You will be on that for an undefined amount of time. Flying can be pretty dry on airport reserve. As long as you’re cool with that, then good (also speaking from experience.)
I want to make something very clear. Horizon does not hire street captains. Regardless of how much experience you have you will be hired as a new hire FO. Once you are eligible to bid you may bid Captain. You may finish FO training and go right back into CA training. More than likely you will start FO training and at some point removed from that training and placed into CA upgrade training. Upon successful completion of CA upgrade training you will be CA.
What could go wrong(and it has). There is a shift in bids for Q CA and your seniority no longer permits you to be awarded CA slot. You will continue training as an FO, qualified as an FO and when seniority permits awarded a CA slot,
Your CA pay doesn’t start until completion of CA OE however long that takes. In a few instances pilots have been here 6 months before the first CA paycheck.
The company will mislead you on this to get in the door in hopes that you will just stick it out.
Yes you will be on R for an inordinate amount of time. Last I heard R are flying 30 hours or less per month.