Originally Posted by
tryin2survive
Curious if anyone has any input on low time military pilots supplementing their military flying with piston flying hours. Specifically, how that may impact the competitiveness of an application. Is this going to have a heavy impact when applying to the majors? I think more military pilots are seeing less hours and it may start looking like a heavy percentage of total hours coming from civilian flying experience as a military pilot applies to the airlines.
First time poster, if this is in the wrong thread please advise.
Piston time isn’t nearly as valuable as turbine time. However I know people who used piston Jobs (when not flying military fixed wing) to get on with lower tier airline gigs (Regionals, Atlas, iAero off the top of my head), which allowed them to beef up their time/resume/apps and move on to a legacy.
Unless you’re on a non flying tour (or rotary tour), or on orders for .mil flying piston aircraft IFR/NIFE etc, adding piston hours to beef up your total time isn’t worth it. If you’re flying for fun then the hours are icing on the cake.