Originally Posted by
freezingflyboy
Oh boy...
Put this in your pipe and smoke it shanejj:
IF you did get hired, which is not out of the question, you won't be able to upgrade for 4 years!!! Colgan and Commutair have been known to hire that low. Would you really want to spend that much time in the right seat waiting to upgrade? That means 4 years of no PIC time. If you get furloughed, mess up and lose your job or the company goes under, you won't have many other options. Personally, I'd rather have 500-1000 PIC time from instructing to make me marketable to just about anyone rather then the select few operators who would hire a 19 year old with 350 hours.
4 years of no pic, but 4 years of 121 experience. Delta doesn't even have a limit for PIC currently posted, just 1200 total and 1000 multi turbine... so in that four years you've racked up a lot of multi turbine instead of a lot of single engine cessna pic. IMO 4 years of multi turbine sic is a lot more valuable than 4 years of single engine pic.
Not only that, but a commuter might see you as someone beneficial to hire since they know you won't try to leave anytime soon, unlike other pilots...