Originally Posted by Tomcat

My apologies, mis-read the tone..... Just ran into a FNWA guy down in the pilot lounge in LAX couple days ago. Nice guy.... Looking forward to SOC so we all get to start flying together.

Back to the thread. You are correct about going Guard or Reserve. We have the California Guard Unit at Point Magu in Ventura County and I have seen the advertise for new pilots. This is the way to go for someone starting out. Get training, turbine time. It's career insurance in this crazy industry, so if your company furloughs, you just go "feed from the trough" at your Guard unit and still make a great living. Not to mention that oneday you'll have a very nice retirement.

I Socal the unit has a mission of fire fighting in addition to the regular C130 mission.

TC