Quick upgrade is even more important now that 65 has passed. The best position you can be in if the Majors start slowing hiring down is at a Regional logging PIC, 900 hours a year PIC at that.

Why logging this PIC you can look at other options beside the Majors, like the growing fractional market.

For most of us the Regionals are all about getting in a getting out ASAP. Nobody looks at Regional pay scales at the 8-12 year level. The way to get out is PIC as quickly as possible.

Most of us instructed at a school where we were billed out at a cost much higher than what we were paid. Why did we do this? To get the dual given time and get out. The used us and we used them for the time. The Regional market is a lot like that. What logical person would spend $50K+ on a education to make such little at a Regional. Whether it is Great Lakes pay or SkyWest pay it is too little for what we do, so why do we do it. We do it to get the TPIC and move on, they use us and we use them.