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05-16-2014 | 01:34 PM
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That's a new one. Airways is continually asking AWAC if they can accept additional flying, especially as PSA is starting to feel the pinch and we are approaching the busy summer travel season. If anything I would say they are looking for ten new 200s.
05-16-2014 | 01:57 PM
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Its easier to have a 95% pass rate when there was a glut of pilots and you can be choosy. All the airlines probably had somewhere near that when new hires spent more years building time.
There is a crisis of fundamentals out there...partly due to less basic experience. Airline training departments can always improve, but places like AWAC have been teaching the CRJ 200 for a long time...its not like they got bad at teaching this airplane.
The general candidate is going to be less experienced on the whole from now on...either the airlines expand the training footprint or sponsor more training academies...or something else...in any case it appears that many candidates will need more training since compromising the standards is out of the question.
There is a crisis of fundamentals out there...partly due to less basic experience. Airline training departments can always improve, but places like AWAC have been teaching the CRJ 200 for a long time...its not like they got bad at teaching this airplane.
The general candidate is going to be less experienced on the whole from now on...either the airlines expand the training footprint or sponsor more training academies...or something else...in any case it appears that many candidates will need more training since compromising the standards is out of the question.
05-16-2014 | 02:09 PM
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From: RJ right-seat warmer
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Pretty high times for what many people like to think of as a '250-hr wonderboy' seat in an RJ...
05-16-2014 | 03:10 PM
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[QUOTE=kfahmi;1644612]I dunno...in my interview group at SKW, the folks in the room had:
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Pretty high times for what many people like to think of as a '250-hr wonderboy' seat in an RJ...[
Those are high times... Is it coincidence that they haven't been cold called by Mesa or going to Pretty Spineless Airlines aka PSA
5050TT (me)
~3800TT
~4300TT
~6000TT
~1500TT
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Pretty high times for what many people like to think of as a '250-hr wonderboy' seat in an RJ...[
Those are high times... Is it coincidence that they haven't been cold called by Mesa or going to Pretty Spineless Airlines aka PSA
05-16-2014 | 04:37 PM
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It's amazing to me that it's gotten to the point that airlines are cold-calling guys. When I graduated college in 1994, a regional would not even talk to you without 3000TT, 1000ME and preferably 500 turbine time. What a different world we live in...
05-16-2014 | 06:59 PM
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Sign of the times. It has to be the quality of what they've been able to find and hire. Would these people able to get hired five years ago? AWAC has a user friendly training dept. and with a positive attitude and willingness to work and work hard, they'll do whatever they need to do to get one through training.
05-17-2014 | 05:56 AM
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