Originally Posted by
evilboy
This is a myth that's been around since the darn Flight Sims came out. Recruiters would notice there's something fishy if your resume says B747 time, but there's no rating.
Sadly Evil,
In this market, there are a LOT of pilots with B747, B727, B737, B757, A320, MD-11, DC-10, and anything else that you can think of that are now on the street, but were furloughed before they got the PIC Type (Yeah, I know, they got the SIC type though...). This is very much like the early 1990's, when Eastern, Pan Am, US Air, TWA, America West, Midway, the military, etc. all furloughed. The only difference between then and now is that in the 1990's there were the have and the have nots... But now, Everybody is or is about to "have not".
So, tragically, there are a lot of Kalitta, Gemini, Focus Air, Cargo 360, Air Tran, Sky Bus, Atlas, Frontier, United, Spirit, American, ABX, Astar, etc. "big" airplane pilots on the street.
Good luck to us all in these 5h1tty times.
In Unity,
B727DRVR
