Question for a wide body pilot
12-06-2018, 07:44 AM
#11
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The 135 is fun but you’ll keep looking up and wondering...
After a few years your just mucking around, my advice, go to a regional. At this point in your career you “don’t know what you don’t know” Get the ATP, a type, a couple thousand hrs in three years, then pick your ACMI. If your set on FED/ UPS then add pic and a four year to make you competitive.
After a few years your just mucking around, my advice, go to a regional. At this point in your career you “don’t know what you don’t know” Get the ATP, a type, a couple thousand hrs in three years, then pick your ACMI. If your set on FED/ UPS then add pic and a four year to make you competitive.
12-07-2018, 06:17 AM
#12
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Originally Posted by gumpscheck
However, avoid Southern Air like a plague. It’s like a stellar black hole.
I just recommend somebody go to Southern.
You need to recognize it as a step and not as a destination buddy.
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It’s looking down not up.
When I flew 135 I practically lived at FL450 lol
12-07-2018, 07:58 AM
#13
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Originally Posted by TiredSoul
Funny you say that
I just recommend somebody go to Southern.
You need to recognize it as a step and not as a destination buddy.
,
It’s looking down not up.
When I flew 135 I practically lived at FL450 lol
I just recommend somebody go to Southern.
You need to recognize it as a step and not as a destination buddy.
,
It’s looking down not up.
When I flew 135 I practically lived at FL450 lol
12-07-2018, 08:35 AM
#14
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I flew 135 in Cessna singles and twins, Twin Commander and Turbo Commander, King Air's, Piaggios, Learjets, etc, high to low; some jobs were good, some not so good, some undesirable. Ambulance, passenger, organ recovery, charter, fractional (135/91K), USFS, various government, and so on.
It would be presumptuous and arrogant to glance down one's nose at those offering, or flying 135.
It would be presumptuous and arrogant to glance down one's nose at those offering, or flying 135.
12-07-2018, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke
I flew 135 in Cessna singles and twins, Twin Commander and Turbo Commander, King Air's, Piaggios, Learjets, etc, high to low; some jobs were good, some not so good, some undesirable. Ambulance, passenger, organ recovery, charter, fractional (135/91K), USFS, various government, and so on.
It would be presumptuous and arrogant to glance down one's nose at those offering, or flying 135.
It would be presumptuous and arrogant to glance down one's nose at those offering, or flying 135.
The regionals will open more doors for you than flying 135. Most people that are flying wide bodies came from either the military or the regionals with a few 135 guys thrown in. Play the odds, and go become a known quantity. You’ll get a lot more calls that way.
12-07-2018, 10:00 AM
#16
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Most of the pilots I know have done 135.
I've met a lot of furloughed 121 pilots anxious to fly 135 when the bills start piling and the income isn't there. It's interesting to see the hands that brush away the riff raff suddenly come back with the palm turned upward.
Use caution with that arrogance. Raise the nose too high, and it snows on the brain. Don't let it freeze. You might need it one day.
I've met a lot of furloughed 121 pilots anxious to fly 135 when the bills start piling and the income isn't there. It's interesting to see the hands that brush away the riff raff suddenly come back with the palm turned upward.
Use caution with that arrogance. Raise the nose too high, and it snows on the brain. Don't let it freeze. You might need it one day.
12-07-2018, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke
Most of the pilots I know have done 135.
I've met a lot of furloughed 121 pilots anxious to fly 135 when the bills start piling and the income isn't there. It's interesting to see the hands that brush away the riff raff suddenly come back with the palm turned upward.
Use caution with that arrogance. Raise the nose too high, and it snows on the brain. Don't let it freeze. You might need it one day.
I've met a lot of furloughed 121 pilots anxious to fly 135 when the bills start piling and the income isn't there. It's interesting to see the hands that brush away the riff raff suddenly come back with the palm turned upward.
Use caution with that arrogance. Raise the nose too high, and it snows on the brain. Don't let it freeze. You might need it one day.
12-08-2018, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke
Most of the pilots I know have done 135.
Most of the pilots I know are/were in the military. Funny how that works.
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