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Old 10-26-2006 | 11:17 AM
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fludy12
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Originally Posted by lovek
On a similar subject, how is T-6 time viewed for the airlines? Doesn't seem like it counts for much, being SE turboprop. Seems like they only want ME Turbine or SE/ME Jet, ignoring SE turbine.
Well, it's still 120 hours or so (for Navy flight school) of turbine, high performance, complex flight time. Consider that most civilians will never even get to fly turbine equipment at all until they get hired by an airline. T-6 time will put you that much further ahead. I'm an old fart, but my T-34C Mentor time counted just fine. And once you get winged, take the FAA test ($50 or so) and convert your military training over and get commercial ASEL/instrument and commercial rotorcraft - helicopter/instrument all in one easy step! I wish after being designated a Navy helo instructor I could have converted and gotten my CFI/II, but the FAA wouldn't allow that so I added those on (along with MEL, MEI) via the civil route after I got out.
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