Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
When I was working my way up, I made a concious decision to walk away from a flight instructing job that put 100 hours a month in my logbook at a well respected 141 school. I chucked the hours and pay for a 60% pay cut to go fly a Navajo hauling passengers, because I knew CFI time was not going to cut it if I wanted to get anywhere. Six months later, it led to a job with a large regional as an F/O in turboprops in the Northeast. One year as an F/O and one year as a Captain with no autopilot or flight director in snow, ice, boomers and ATC put the time in my logbook to get to a major. It was the EXPERIENCE...not hours...that mattered.
If you got a job with a major after 1 year F/O on a prop and a year as a captain on a prop after not instructing or doing time building, I am assuming you got hired at your major with, say 2500 hours. Tops.
Nothing wrong with that, but consider yourself incredibly, unbelievably fortunate. There are thousands of pilots with vastly more experience who are still waiting for that call.
I have over 6000 hours, most of it in jets and several thousand PIC on jets now and the vast majority of it in the NE. Snow, ice, boomers and ATC here too. Still waiting on that call.
Nothing wrong with your experience, but if you are at a major it is not because of your vast experience when you got hired if indeed you were hired with a couple seasons in the NE.