Upgrading aircraft at FedEx / UPS
08-20-2006 | 03:21 PM
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Not totally true. You can take job elsewhere in the company, and when you have he requisite time, 1 yr in my case, you can get an interview. When I got off active duty in '93, most of the airlines had people on the street, and I didn't know (that I knew) anyone at FedEx. I took a job in the summer of '94 as a handler/equipment operator and spent the next 18 months loading planes, driving a tug, etc. (my clock actually started ticking in Nov '94 as a "permanent" empl. and when I was eligible a yr later they were not interviewing until Jan '96). There were alt least 4 "internal" hires in my new hire class. No FedEx pilot recommendations, no one to walk my resume through.
08-20-2006 | 03:57 PM
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From: MD11 Capt
4 yr degree + plus a few more things.
time wise.....
1500 hours total fixed-wing time as pilot-in-command (PIC) or second-in-command in multi-engine turbo-prop A/C or jet A/C or combination thereof, including a minimum of 1000 hours total fixed-wing pilot-in-command in multi-engine turbo prop A/C or jet A/C or combination thereof.
Note: PIC for this purpose is defined as Captain/Aircraft Commander of record, not simply the sole manipulator of the controls.
Note: FedEx considers only pilot time in fixed wing aircraft toward minimum qualifications. This does not include simulator, helicopter, flight engineer, bombardier, navigator, RIO, EWO, WSO, NFO, or Special Crew.
08-20-2006 | 05:40 PM
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From: FredEx Captain-Retired
The times have changed since you were hired. I agree that without references there is little or no chance. You can't even get an interview without one, unless you throw boxes first.
Anything is possible though. He11, when Drew was hired, they had not invented airplanes yet had they?
Anything is possible though. He11, when Drew was hired, they had not invented airplanes yet had they?
After paying the $10,000 for the DA-20 Type, I went home, quit the Broker's job, traded my leased MBZ 450 to a lady in the office for her free-and-clear El Camino pick-up and begged Billy Burns, the SAN manager to hire me on as a Courier. I was #5 employee in all of SAN County in 1975.
Figuring they hadn't hired pilots in over a year and there were a couple thousand suckers who had paid their $10K, who were all, ostensibly promised a flying job when the hiring started up again, having an Emp. # was a good move.
Turns out, everyone in the class, with the exception of Chat Wetherill (who was the cousin of one of Fred’s close friends and ‘Dirty 30’ guy) and the fake Israeli AF guy, most of whose time was ‘P-51’. . . independently had the same idea. One guy stuck around MEM after getting Typed and drove the crew bus. Four of us had Courier jobs and I think another was in the Hub, throwing boxes.
So, I would guess, in the absence of good references from someone already on the Line, being an “Internal” might be as good, or almost as good.
08-20-2006 | 05:43 PM
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