Originally Posted by
banja12
I find it all pretty unbelieveable, and I'm probably killing my chances at a job here, but seriously, why hire CFI's with 1400 hours and 150 multi all in piston over the guys with 121 experience, type ratings, etc???
I have over 2000TT, 1200 Multi, 1100 Turbine, 121 exp, last 12 months with a flying job, and an EMB-145 SIC Type, full currency and an internal recommendation. Haven't heard squat while the less qualified are getting calls. Any theories?
An ex 121 guy with lots of experience is far more likely to succeed in training and is a better pilot once out on the line, due to EXPERIENCE! This has ALWAYS been a proven fact, and this is why you have to have MORE flight time to fly for a major. The cream of the crop should get picked first, right?! Not so with Eagle HR evidently, and it confuses me.
So this is the third poster I've read about non 121 guys being inexperienced. You assume that all guys who are not 121 being hired come from flight instructing. I know two who come from the corporate world who were hired at Eagle, one guy is part 135 and another part 91. Based on your Bias opinion I could assume that a Hawker pilot, Gulfstream pilot, Global pilot, BBJ pilot, Falcon Pilot, etc.... would not be able to make it thought training due to lack of experience. Yes the rules are a little different from 135 and 91 but to say that an individual is less likely to make it through based on a few people that you heard were hired is unacceptable.
If you are sitting in HR and have read each and every single resume of each and every applicant that has been hired thus far, then and only then can you pass judgment. To sit on a forum and complain because you have higher time then most being hired and can't understand why you haven't been called is useless. ATTITUDE has a lot to do with the hiring process, I never understood why my former chief pilot said he doesn’t hire former 121 but I'm beginning to understand!