LOL congress demands response. HAHAHA!

Um, because PC. Next issue...

 

Hi, I am a first time poster with a career question looking for opinions. I would like to meet Delta's minimums one day and I am trying to determine the best way to do that.

Sitting at 600TT (all civilian). Currently flying part time contract SIC for a company that operates King Airs and Lears. I think it will turn into full time within a few months. Only flying about 10-20 hours per month right now but hope it will increase to around 30-35 if they hire me full time.

I have an opportunity to fly a Caravan aprox 100 hours per month (start in right seat with quick upgrade in about 6 months). 40 years old. Plenty of academics but very little total time. Should I jump to the Caravan for the hours or stay where I am and wait for full time work soon in King Airs and Lears.

(I much prefer my current company and equipment, it is local and the people are great, and I could see myself happy there for the rest of my career----- but I am not getting any younger and feel that I need to be flying something full time even if it is an unpressurized single.) I am leaning toward staying where I am for a few years or possibly forever as QOL is excellent but if hours are everything in this business maybe I should consider flying everyday for a couple of years no matter what the equipment is?

All opinions appreciated. Thanks.

 

If you are somewhere you coul stay for the duration, stay put and wait for Delta.

 

Its kind of hard to answer your question without knowing what paths would be acceptable to you. You only mentioned two, and neither will likely ever get you to DL or any legacy, or even most of the better LCC's at least for a very long time. Possible, but not likely.

In your specific situation you'd probably need to get larger, more verifiable turbine time at either a regional airline, a LCC or a well known fractional. If what's keeping you from those jobs is total time, then I'd lean toward taking the Caravan job to quickly bulk up your TT, and then move on ASAP.

A couple hundred hours a year of King Air time is a very slow pace for someone in their 40's wanting to move on.

That said, if the King Air job is truly stable and a place you could be happy ending up, perhaps staying there isn't a bad option. Only you can decide that of course.

 

Delta makes it clear. They want 1.military 2.regional 3. Extremely well known corporate. Other than that, they won't really look at you. My best suggestion is to get to a regional ASAP.

 

Same with me. I was worried I would somehow get put on the bottom of the stack, but 2 weeks later, I got the invite. The e-mail came from [email protected].

 

The 10 year request is strictly for your previous residences. See Falcon20's cut/paste for the job info.

 

Has anybody used a service to specifically review the AirlineApps application with respect to Delta?

I had emerald coast review my cover letter and resume but they said they couldn't review AirlineApps information. I'd like a professional pair of eyes to look over it.

Cheers,

Airfix

 

That's my best friends company. He reviews the airlineapps data. I'll PM you his info.

 

AeroCrew reviewed mine. Just black out your SS# before you send it to them.