Originally Posted by
Crockrocket95
I had 135 TPIC in citations that had 7 seats... got hired at a major 121. Did legality change in the last 2 years?
I think s/he’s just referring to the flight experience requirements to upgrade and act as PIC under 121. A pilot needs to have 1000 SIC operating under 121 in order to be qualified to act as PIC under 121. There are a few things that can substitute or compliment the 1000 SIC requirement. One of them is PIC time in a turbojet/fan operated under 135, but the aircraft must have 10 or more seats. So, he is technically right that your citation PIC time would not count towards upgrade requirements if push came to shove. Someone generally won’t have that problem if they went 135 to major though as they will have accrued plenty of 121 SIC by the time upgrade would come around anyway. It was more of a problem at the regional level during the last boom. In some cases, seniority list movement was so quick that a first officer’s seniority could hold a captain spot before they even met the experience requirements. In that situation it helped if they came in with some other form of qualifying experience at their time of hire (like the discussed 135 PIC time).