No, must have ATP.

 

Depends on if your Dad is friends with the CEO, they have made that exception before.

 

What are they looking for in terms of TT to be competitive? just curious

 

Can't give you an official answer, but my new hire class had 4 regional guys in the 6,000 hr range a couple of 10,000 to 15,000 hr guys, one military and one 747 guy from an out of business airline.

 

Which regionals and were they captains or FOs? How was the class? Was it a training horror story as past posts hinted or was it like every other airline?

 

Training at Omni is "firm but fair." If you're willing to study, memorize EPs and profiles you won't have a problem. The Check Airmen expect you to know your business when you show up for a check ride. At every point in time, the IPs will tell you exactly what is expected to move on to the next events.

If you do...no sweat. If you don't, they'll give you a limited amount of extra time to get it together. If you still don't...adios.

There are several gates you have to pass through to get to the final check, but if you make those hurdles, you'll be good to go. Considering the environment Omni operates in, they need pilots who are competent.

If you expect to be spoon fed and signed off with a minimum of effort on your part, Omni isn't for you.

If you're a professional aviator who knows what it takes to be QUALIFIED then the Omni training program will be right up your alley.

 

The above post is spot on. It's a training program for intelligent, highly motivated pilots. It's pretty rare, in my opinion, for a company to take low time regional FO's and essentially turn them into wide body CA's almost overnight. But the training program is setup to do just that. I know of 3 XJT FO's and 1 XJT CA that have come here in the last 3 months. All successful. I would say at least half of each class or more are regional pilots (both FO's and CA's). I asked about this and the answer was pretty simple: they work their butt off in training and they have a good attitude.

 

Be very careful about believing "horror story posts". The OMG 50% of the last class busted is more than likely a class of two and one either failed or left before the type ride. This goes for all airline training programs and not just Omni, because I guarantee you if any airline runs a bust rate that high or my guess is in the 20% or higher range the Feds would be all over that airline.

 

Because the company doesn't want a high failure rate, they will not recommend you for the ride/oral unless they know you are ready. Most of the washouts occur after not being signed off for the ride when extra training events have been given. Work hard, show up with a good attitude, and worry about the task at hand. The instructors are great, and examiners are very fair as long as you do your part. FYI, people have been sent home who have types, and lots of time in Omni equipment.

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Omni will tell you their training is characterized as drinking from a fire hose, and their not wrong. However whats not mentioned is there is a huge disconnect between ground school and simulator; ground does little to prepare you for the sim, and that is why majority of candidates have problems. For example, the sim instructor expect everyone to have everything memorized; flows, profiles,etc, for both seats day one. In addition, If you don't know how to program/run the box day one you're, well, pretty much screwed.

Simulator training isn't so much training but rather a continuous evaluation.

Hope this helps any current and would be candidates.