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USMCFLYR
Cute diversion Sly - but unsuccessful once again.
No one has said anything about having special columns anywhere for special time; so I'll go ahead and answer that non-question. None.
Satisfied with you bogus point of contention Sky?
You still have not proven that a person with radial time won't make it to an interview. We are all waiting for proof of this concept and you provide nothing - as usual - in the way of anything other than negative opinions. Where do you get these "odds" you speak of?
You seem to assume that we are talking about someone applying to UAL with nothing other than the round engine to fill their resume. If this is your contention, I'm thinking many on here might agree with you, but I haven't taken this thread in such a manner. We are talking about someone adding such time to an already attractive resume and your thinking that this "side track" will derail them. That has already been proven a false notion by many on here who have done that exact thing.
USMCFLYR
Yes, for starters this thread is in the "low time" section and the OP in this thread mentioned that he only has 700 hours. My point is that if someone wants a career in the airlines then they had better focus on things that will add to that goal. A better plan is to go straight to a regional. 700 hours is getting close to being enough to get on with an operator that flies turbine or jet glass paneled planes.
I consider myself to be an expert on these matters since I have spent much of the last 20 years studying hiring trends in this industry. Most here who have posted opposition to my posts have not had to find a job for sometime now. Nostalgia is great but it is not going to help someone who is trying to get a career off the ground.
Piston time only holds value to the point where one can get hired at a regional. 1500 total time and perhaps 200 multi-engine. Anything beyond that faces steeply diminishing returns. Anything fun like DC-6 time, Float time and taildraggers are neat but will not gain you any points over a few thousand hours in 121 turbine operations.
Skyhigh