Originally Posted by Ravenwing

Interesting. Before I left Mesa, I remember the chief pilot calling to literally yell at me for telling crew tracking I was too tired to fly after my scheduled duty off time on day six after a week of late night reserve and stand up over nights. He was especially mad because I had vacation starting. I got away with saying no but it wasn’t a pleasant experience.

I figured someone would correct me over something. I just have a hard time with the idea that the Mesa experience is equal to any other regional.

I have been wanting to get back into flying after 15 years away and have narrowed it down to SkyWest and Envoy to get current. The advantage of SkyWest for me is the potential to get based in Seattle. The advantage of Envoy is that they are union and I might possibly be able to bounce to Delta faster to get a Seattle base as Delta seems reluctant to hire pilots from their regional feed, especially captains. I have lots of 121 TPIC time figure both Envoy and SkyWest would force me to upgrade quickly so I might as well volunteer; someone on the Envoy board said they let you sit right seat for 300 hours if you haven’t flown in the last five years but they don’t want to train you twice. There are pros and cons to everything, but I understand how strong the pull of a pilot base can be.

It is amazing how much the industry has improved in 15 years.