Originally Posted by
itsmytime
exactly. Some of these folks are misremembering some years. I know plenty of guys that got picked up in 07, and early 08 with 250. If a guy had 500 back then, people were wondering why he wasn’t already at the regionals.
I believe that was around the late 08’ timeframe. In 2005-7 or so most “good” regionals were all pretty much 1000/100. There were a few that went down to 750/100 or even 600/50, but that was the lowest around that time. It was prop airlines like piedmont that went all the way to wet commercial as there were a few hired at 250/6, but that wasn’t until around 2008 or so.
Even places like Colgan had a pay for training setup in 2005(?)ish. You PAID for a beech 1900 type essentially for the job.