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.
Would I mind sitting right for 4 years, build hours while I'm at, and finally be eligible to upgrade? Well, in those 4 years I'll be 23. Old enough to finally be able to take the ATP....So it might be more beneficial to me, a 19year old, than to a 25+ person. I'm still in college now anyway, so can't go anywhere fast unless i finish that. Getting hired right now by the regionals, live on soup for 4 years, might be ok for me....