I saw Pacific Wings and had to jump at the chance to let people know what its really like.

Now to start this was 4 years ago now about, so there may be many changes (but from what I have heard....not so much)
They did say that as an SIC you do ramp/ticketing/phone calls and all that stuff, but also was told that you were allowed to fly on your day off and it was no problem getting 100hrs a month! (which was the whole reason I went here....to avoid the instruction route)
After I moved out to Maui I found out very quick how different it really was, you were only scheduled for 1 day of flying per week and the other 4 were desk days. You had to come in on your day off if you wanted to fly which all the SIC pilots set up a sort of schedule to allow everyone to share the EXTRA flying.
There were many days that our management/er would come in look at someone and say "go home, I dont like your attitude" "certain people were not allowed to fly under this managers personal demands. To sum it up it was largely broken promises.
On top of it all at the time I was bringing home about 1050$, with a bedroom rent of 550$ a month that left me with 500$ a month to live!
I loved living in Maui, it was one of the most fun times in my life, but as far as moving forward with an airline career DO NOT DO IT!

Again, it may have changed since then, and as a captain you didnt have to deal with any of what I stated above. But if you want a good work environment and to further your career look elsewhere.

-Cheers_