Originally Posted by
Airsupport
ok, so my guess is that with your time and not getting calls you have been out of the game for a while. if so then yeah pinnacle might be the place for you. you will have to fly right seat for 100hrs and then you can apply for upgrade. once there and you start getting some recent flight time i am sure you will look a lot better to the other companies.
like spooled said however if you come here and upgrade within 2 or 3 months you will be on reserve for a very long time. an easy way to explain that is everyone that was hired before you will have seniority over you. even if you are a captain, an fo hired before you will be more senior. so everytime you think you are getting close to holding a line an fo will upgrade and push you back. just some things to think about.
and as far as things went with the professionalpilot he is far from high time. he only had around 2300hrs when he first got here, and was upset when either he, or they, or both got confused, misinformed, or whatever about the time he would need to upgrade. from what i hear he is going to fly a couple hundred hours more in the right seat and then move to the left as soon as he can.
Actually no. I've only been out of work for 3 weeks due to my previous airline going belly up.
And yes I know what you are saying about me being junior to an FO if I make Capt quickly... However, with a little luck, I will get a better offer from another carrier before too too long. But I'll still do a good job for pinnacle while employed there (for the record).
And after reading almost the entire "professinal pilot thread", yes, I see where he went wrong. It seems he didn't have the "PIC" time to upgrade without this "mentor" program. I don't think I need this mentor program. Besides having the 5200 hrs TT, 1023 PIC turbine, my Total PIC is 2100, and over 3000 SIC turbine. So Again I think I can upgrade with out help from mentors.
Am I correct?
What do you think