Originally Posted by
DoNoHarm
It depends on the person and the background (and the regional). If you haven't flown anything in 5+ years, and are low time based on number of years flying, it is pretty hard to get hired at a decent regional. Somewhere like Mesa or GoJet...no issues. But at a decent regional, it is hard to get hired with no currency at all.
Are you serious? The USAF was in the process of sending him to instruct brand new second lieutenants in jets. He was going to get three landings (or quite likely a takeoff, a landing, and two touch and goes) for currency, four days to read the training syllabus, and be back at work on Monday. as a supervisor.
Any regional - decent or otherwise - will fall all over themselves to hire him, even knowing he’ll probably be gone before he’s off probation. Compared to everyone else they’ve got coming in the door he is as close to a zero training risk as they’ve seen in a damn long time...