Old 05-26-2010 | 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by asims33
Thanks for relieving yourself on my efforts, if you dont have anything helpful to say please refrane from saying anything at all.

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We pay for the CRJ course because most regional websites say that reduced minimums will be considered if you have the course. and american eagle has sent guys as recently as the last hiring boom at AEs expense to ATPs CRJ course to get them ready for the initial training


You can say its useless but i would disagree,


I do have connections at PSA and someone high up on the hiring board said that with the CRJ course and 500 TT i would have a good chance of being competitive enough for the job...This post was for your opinions on what the hiring minimums were.

I do plan on instructing but in this economy im lucky to get 10 hours a week and if hiring starts big in august i wont have enough hours. I still have some money aside for that last push if i need it so the c172 block time at 80 bucks an hour wet is way cheaper and more appealing to me since i dont need much more multi.


So again please give me opinions on what the mins will be a few months into the hiring streak, save the opinions on my CRJ course i already have it and those who i have talked to in higher positions say that it will help alot.
Well, if you go look at the websites of some airlines, they are in the neighborhood of 1500/200. My guess is that is what the mins will be as more hiring resumes. This isnt like a couple years ago where extremely low time pilots were getting picked up. There is too large of a well to draw from right now with all the high time furloughs with previous experience. I think the absolute lowest you will see will be 1000TT.

That CRJ course probably would have helped you during the last round as it was used to supplement low time. I would be willing to bet it will be as good as good as useless right now. Regardless just work on building time, because 500 hours wont get you anywhere for now.
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