Commitment for upgrade to captain?
#1
Commitment for upgrade to captain?
I'm coming off a contract flying 135 cargo. Quite a fair amount of ME PIC. Turbine not so much. So I'm looking at regionals to get that turbine time and 121 time.
Talking to former coworker's who have preceded me down this track, apparently some majors will hire regional FOs with only turbine SIC time and some of them won't, requiring turbine PIC time as a CA.
It's not that I don't think I'll enjoy flying the line in a regional because I will, but it is not the ultimate goal. I'd just like to know my options.
Can anyone tell me what sort of a contractual commitment you incur when you upgrade to CA at Compass and how that might compare with Envoy, Mesa, or Skywest?
Talking to former coworker's who have preceded me down this track, apparently some majors will hire regional FOs with only turbine SIC time and some of them won't, requiring turbine PIC time as a CA.
It's not that I don't think I'll enjoy flying the line in a regional because I will, but it is not the ultimate goal. I'd just like to know my options.
Can anyone tell me what sort of a contractual commitment you incur when you upgrade to CA at Compass and how that might compare with Envoy, Mesa, or Skywest?
Last edited by Excargodog; 01-29-2018 at 09:20 AM. Reason: Forgot an option
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I'm coming off a contract flying 135 cargo. Quite a fair amount of ME PIC. Turbine not so much. So I'm looking at regionals to get that turbine time and 121 time.
Talking to former coworker's who have preceded me down this track, apparently some majors will hire regional FOs with only turbine SIC time and some of them won't, requiring turbine PIC time as a CA.
It's not that I don't think I'll enjoy flying the line in a regional because I will, but it is not the ultimate goal. I'd just like to know my options.
Can anyone tell me what sort of a contractual commitment you incur when you upgrade to CA at Compass and how that might compare with Envoy, Mesa, or Skywest?
Talking to former coworker's who have preceded me down this track, apparently some majors will hire regional FOs with only turbine SIC time and some of them won't, requiring turbine PIC time as a CA.
It's not that I don't think I'll enjoy flying the line in a regional because I will, but it is not the ultimate goal. I'd just like to know my options.
Can anyone tell me what sort of a contractual commitment you incur when you upgrade to CA at Compass and how that might compare with Envoy, Mesa, or Skywest?
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When I got hired at Compass, we signed a training contract as a new hire FO for one year. Didn't even finish training before the company got rid of it, though. Never heard of having one for captain upgrade though.
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