Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
rickair7777 - It seems that many companies don't really care how much flight time you have as long as you meet the minimums. I mean other threads on the forum are rife with stories of people with crazy amounts of time not getting jobs while others who had to use conversions just to make the mins are getting hired. I've heard others say on here that once you get past a few milestones in the TT, PIC, and Turbine time that the number of hours doesn't really matter. Do you not agree with this?
USMCFLYR
I agree. Depends on the company, but once you meet their competetive (as opposed to min) times, additional time probably won't matter much unless the quality of the time is significant (ie military).
If you can stay out of trouble for 2000 hours 121 TPIC you probably have more than luck going for you...after that, the returns diminish.
You can definately be overqualified at a regional...if you have plenty of TPIC they might suspect you won't stick around. But I think most regionals would feel you out and give you a chance if you are looking for a home. I know plenty of ex-corporate turned regional pilots who came with thousands of hours.
Rumor has it that some majors don't like pilots who have many thousands of TPIC, and have not done a training event in years. Perhaps they consider them a training risk.
Also, word is that in 2007 a certain major had 8 out of 15 new hires bail during training for brown or purple...supposedly the hiring manager decided to hire only people who had upgraded but ot yet reached 1000 TPIC
