Originally Posted by
t6marine
CBP would be an option if and when they start hiring. Seeing as there is a hiring freeze in effect across the board it may be awhile.
Flight Time is flight time whether it be SEL or MEL. VR would be fun, however VT works as well. I know a bunch of Helo Guys that went VT and got picked up for airlines, same can be said for VR. So I am not sure there is much of a difference. I would save your money though and forgo the Masters, not much to be gained by getting that if you want to be at an airline.
VT's have another board in May/June if you are interested. Did you keep your Commission in the IRR? If not might start looking at how to go about getting it back.
Rule #1 in the reserves, stay as close to home as possible, it gets old quick having to commute.
There was another thread on APC recently talking about whether single-engine turboprop time would count the same as how single engine fighter time would count (this thread was Fedex specific), and all of that T-34C or T-6 time would not help with the meeting the required mins for FedEx.
I think jrow's problem is going to be two fold with regards to most of airlines. TOTAL fixed wing time (though the VTs would quickly fix this problem) and the much harder to get - multi-turbine fixed wing (total and PIC) time.
As far as your chances of getting on with the VRs - I have no idea either and no experience. I do know a few guys in the NAS Jacksonville C-40 squadron. I could ask them if they have any helo-only background guys in the squadron or try to get a feeling for the future hiring if you wanted me too.
I knew that some sections of the gov't were on a hiring freeze, I wasn't sure about the CBP but it makes sense
USMCFLYR