Originally Posted by
festivus
As someone who’s about to do this myself, the only thing I’m worried about is that none of the time for single pilot 135 ops counts under 121.436. So, it’s turbine, it’s multi, it’s PIC, but it isn’t countable towards 121 PIC. That said, I sure wouldn’t be complaining to end up at NK or the like, so I’m hoping an unrestricted opens that door in a year or more.
FWIW - 1300 TT, zero checkride failures, a decent resume, and the only place I ever got a reply from was Air Whisky. These days, you can make more money than ZW going 135, so that’s where I’m going.
So get 200 hours of turbine ME and put in apps everywhere. Unlike the regionals, the ULCCs NEED FOs because they lose a lot more FOs to the legacies than they do CAs. By the time they are a CA at NK they are now making north of $270k plus 15% and the golden handcuffs are starting. It becomes more and more difficult to give up what you’ve got, for sure once you are a lineholder to go back to being an FO on reserve at $100k, even if it’s a better deal in the long run. So while regionals are bleeding CAs and have a surplus of FOs, the ULCCs are bleeding FOs. So get your 135 hours now and you can soon get all the 121 hours yiu want at an LC/ULCC. And if the next black swan hits and the music stops, an LC/ULCC seniority number is better than a regional one.