Charter or regionals
03-31-2022, 01:52 PM
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Charter or regionals
Weighing my options between charter or regionals. Have a great opportunity to join up with flying corporate jets at double the amount of any regional. The charter has a 12 month training contract, so if I disliked it I could leave.
Does anyone have experience from charter, then going to the majors. Obviously that would depend on amount of total time. If I served my 12 months and didn’t like it I would likely have 2100 hours (300-500 Jet time). Would that get me somewhere other than a regional, assuming no recessions. Charter company also will be paying for my ATP during my start date. I also have two offers for regionals on the table.
Does anyone have experience from charter, then going to the majors. Obviously that would depend on amount of total time. If I served my 12 months and didn’t like it I would likely have 2100 hours (300-500 Jet time). Would that get me somewhere other than a regional, assuming no recessions. Charter company also will be paying for my ATP during my start date. I also have two offers for regionals on the table.
03-31-2022, 03:15 PM
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If your ultimate goal is the majors, go to the regionals as quickly as you can.
It isn’t unheard of for people going from 91/135 to LCC/Legacy, but usually those people have many thousands of hours and lots of TPIC, not to mention other titles such as check airman, chief pilot, director of ops, etc. Those roles take years to acquire.
You’d be better off taking one of those regional offers, IMO.
It isn’t unheard of for people going from 91/135 to LCC/Legacy, but usually those people have many thousands of hours and lots of TPIC, not to mention other titles such as check airman, chief pilot, director of ops, etc. Those roles take years to acquire.
You’d be better off taking one of those regional offers, IMO.
04-01-2022, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by rmcbear08
If your ultimate goal is the majors, go to the regionals as quickly as you can.
It isn’t unheard of for people going from 91/135 to LCC/Legacy, but usually those people have many thousands of hours and lots of TPIC, not to mention other titles such as check airman, chief pilot, director of ops, etc. Those roles take years to acquire.
You’d be better off taking one of those regional offers, IMO.
It isn’t unheard of for people going from 91/135 to LCC/Legacy, but usually those people have many thousands of hours and lots of TPIC, not to mention other titles such as check airman, chief pilot, director of ops, etc. Those roles take years to acquire.
You’d be better off taking one of those regional offers, IMO.
The charter company also will be paying for my ATP, and PIC type. Any leg I fly could be logged as TPIC. Little gray area there.
04-01-2022, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Captainfit2
Seems fair, thank you.
The charter company also will be paying for my ATP, and PIC type. Any leg I fly could be logged as TPIC. Little gray area there.
The charter company also will be paying for my ATP, and PIC type. Any leg I fly could be logged as TPIC. Little gray area there.
04-01-2022, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Captainfit2
Seems fair, thank you.
The charter company also will be paying for my ATP, and PIC type. Any leg I fly could be logged as TPIC. Little gray area there.
The charter company also will be paying for my ATP, and PIC type. Any leg I fly could be logged as TPIC. Little gray area there.
Unless you’re hired straight into the left seat.
Lots of 135 operators will have you do a PIC type rating, doesn’t mean you can log “acting PIC” or “sole manipulator of the controls PIC”.
It doesn’t work that way, PIC time is Captain time aka whomever signs for the airplane or is the designated PIC on the dispatch release.
04-04-2022, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by TiredSoul
No it won’t and no it can’t.
Unless you’re hired straight into the left seat.
Lots of 135 operators will have you do a PIC type rating, doesn’t mean you can log “acting PIC” or “sole manipulator of the controls PIC”.
It doesn’t work that way, PIC time is Captain time aka whomever signs for the airplane or is the designated PIC on the dispatch release.
Unless you’re hired straight into the left seat.
Lots of 135 operators will have you do a PIC type rating, doesn’t mean you can log “acting PIC” or “sole manipulator of the controls PIC”.
It doesn’t work that way, PIC time is Captain time aka whomever signs for the airplane or is the designated PIC on the dispatch release.
04-04-2022, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
If your goal is to fly 121, go somewhere that will give you 121 hours, preferably as close to 1000 a year as possible. Otherwise you are just spinning your wheels.
04-05-2022, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by immolated
Is this still true for 2022+? On aviationinterviews.com, the data for majors is starting to show low time 135 hires. And 1-2 years from now the pool of qualified applicants is expected to dry up based on current projections, no?
05-13-2022, 08:32 AM
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I have a similar situation. I’m still flight instructing. Finally found a school that is getting me some hours (about 100/mo). Currently sitting at a little over 1000TT. Got an offer from a 135 gig this week. The original plan was to go to regionals after hitting 1500. They pay for the Type and want a year as well. Now I’m considering it. Have a few friends that have been sitting for months waiting for training at the regionals. This I could get started right away and start building turbine time. Ultimate goal is the majors or possibly cargo. I’m literally split right now in the fork in the road. Lol
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