Originally Posted by de727ups
"The best one I can think of is Flight Safety Academy's Direct Track program"
"Minimums: ASA and TSA: No hourly requirements, just need Comm-Multi-Instrument"
Personally, I don't think people with 250-300 hours belong in the right seat of an RJ.
You get hired at 250 hours, but that doesn't mean that's the time you will have when you get to the right seat.
The Eagle minimums are 336 TT / 36 multi, because Eagle insurance requirements dictate new hire pilots to have at least 400 TT and 100 Multi (this according to FSA Career Coordinator)...
...that basically means that you will pick up a minimum of 64 hours in this program. As a result, most graduates of this program at the start of the airline's ground school have over 300 hours (in the range of 315 to 400+ hours).
But don't forget, there are many who go to direct track that have a significantly higher total time than the bare minimums before even starting the program (like 400-500+ hours).
Another negative of FSA direct track is you could be "hired" into the program with ASA, do the program, and then ASA stops hiring. There is a guy at Jetcareers this happened to that, last I heard, has been waiting several months for a class date and still doesn't have one.
True, but look at the latest hiring updates from FSA:
http://www.flightsafetyacademy.com/c...ment/hired.php
For the class of 2006, the following ASA students have been hired:
Robert Gilbert (AATP)
Jose Riviera (AATP)
Lloyd Sunvold (AATP)
Carlos Curiz (AATP)
Neil Tornblom (AATP)
Bobby Hsu (AATP)
Taso Iraclidis (AATP)
Gretchen Hermanson (AATP)
Kevin Gwinn (AATP)
Michael Scorza (AATP)
Robert Burch (AATP)
Joseph Cook (AATP)
Charlie Pruitt (AATP)
John Gary (AATP)
Now keep in mind that the ASA program has been on HOLD since November. So, these are the students who have gotten class dates in 2006. They did direct track last fall sometime.
I believe you're talking about Badco99 on jetcareers. He may not yet have a class date, but he will.
Even the FSA website's FAQs say it can take 1 to 3 months to get a class date (and sometimes longer in some cases).
The program has been very successful with ASA.
There are testimonies by Capt. John Robertson and Capt. Julie Skugland(sp?), that are on FSA's website.
They're very pleased with this program, and apparently it has served ASA very well.