Regionals to Fractionals
08-10-2022, 06:41 PM
#11
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Former regional and then ULCC. This is the best job I’ve ever had. It’s not for everyone, but it is for me. I love absolutely everything about it.
I was on my company paid ticket home (no stress). Mainline flight from LA to ATL. Every 20-30 minutes, we’d hit a pocket of light chop and the captain would turn the seatbelt sign on and make the obligatory PA.
But he sounded so monotone and absolutely done with everything. Like….. I felt bad for him. But it also removed ANY doubt in my mind of wanting to go anywhere else. I’ll take wiping down the tray tables but flying into ASE or TEX over doing an ILS after ILS after ILS to the same six airports.
YMMV, but this is the best thing to ever happen to me.
I was on my company paid ticket home (no stress). Mainline flight from LA to ATL. Every 20-30 minutes, we’d hit a pocket of light chop and the captain would turn the seatbelt sign on and make the obligatory PA.
But he sounded so monotone and absolutely done with everything. Like….. I felt bad for him. But it also removed ANY doubt in my mind of wanting to go anywhere else. I’ll take wiping down the tray tables but flying into ASE or TEX over doing an ILS after ILS after ILS to the same six airports.
YMMV, but this is the best thing to ever happen to me.
08-10-2022, 06:43 PM
#12
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Joined APC: May 2015
Posts: 440
Former regional and then ULCC. This is the best job I’ve ever had. It’s not for everyone, but it is for me. I love absolutely everything about it.
I was on my company paid ticket home (no stress). Mainline flight from LAX to ATL. Every 20-30 minutes, we’d hit a pocket of light chop and the captain would turn the seatbelt sign on and make the obligatory PA.
But he sounded so monotone and absolutely done with everything. Like….. I felt bad for him. But it also removed ANY doubt in my mind of wanting to go anywhere else. I’ll take wiping down the tray tables but flying into ASE or TEX over doing an ILS after ILS after ILS to the same six airports.
YMMV, but this is the best thing to ever happen to me.
I was on my company paid ticket home (no stress). Mainline flight from LAX to ATL. Every 20-30 minutes, we’d hit a pocket of light chop and the captain would turn the seatbelt sign on and make the obligatory PA.
But he sounded so monotone and absolutely done with everything. Like….. I felt bad for him. But it also removed ANY doubt in my mind of wanting to go anywhere else. I’ll take wiping down the tray tables but flying into ASE or TEX over doing an ILS after ILS after ILS to the same six airports.
YMMV, but this is the best thing to ever happen to me.
08-10-2022, 07:58 PM
#13
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Joined APC: Mar 2011
Position: Bizjet Captain
Posts: 251
Originally Posted by DiveAndDrive
Former regional and then ULCC. This is the best job I’ve ever had. It’s not for everyone, but it is for me. I love absolutely everything about it.
I was on my company paid ticket home (no stress). Mainline flight from LAX to ATL. Every 20-30 minutes, we’d hit a pocket of light chop and the captain would turn the seatbelt sign on and make the obligatory PA.
But he sounded so monotone and absolutely done with everything. Like….. I felt bad for him. But it also removed ANY doubt in my mind of wanting to go anywhere else. I’ll take wiping down the tray tables but flying into ASE or TEX over doing an ILS after ILS after ILS to the same six airports.
YMMV, but this is the best thing to ever happen to me.
I was on my company paid ticket home (no stress). Mainline flight from LAX to ATL. Every 20-30 minutes, we’d hit a pocket of light chop and the captain would turn the seatbelt sign on and make the obligatory PA.
But he sounded so monotone and absolutely done with everything. Like….. I felt bad for him. But it also removed ANY doubt in my mind of wanting to go anywhere else. I’ll take wiping down the tray tables but flying into ASE or TEX over doing an ILS after ILS after ILS to the same six airports.
YMMV, but this is the best thing to ever happen to me.
09-20-2022, 06:53 AM
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Joined APC: Sep 2022
Posts: 37
Not quite a regionals question here but how many Flexjet guys end up going onto the Legacies successfully? Thinking of flying with Flex for a little while instead of the regionals. Debating whether 121 time at a regional would be more valuable than 135 (potentially more PIC since upgrade is so quick now) time in this market. I already have a little 135 PIC and a good chunk of turbine, just have to get my CTP/Written out of the way.
09-20-2022, 07:01 AM
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Position: SW4
Posts: 121
Originally Posted by ShoutVFR
Not quite a regionals question here but how many Flexjet guys end up going onto the Legacies successfully? Thinking of flying with Flex for a little while instead of the regionals. Debating whether 121 time at a regional would be more valuable than 135 (potentially more PIC since upgrade is so quick now) time in this market. I already have a little 135 PIC and a good chunk of turbine, just have to get my CTP/Written out of the way.
09-20-2022, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by pilotguy7
I'd say if you want to go to a major, stay at the 121 - not that you can't go to a legacy from FJ (people do), but the legacies will see you "like and can handle" the 121. Bouncing fro 121 to frac then trying to go back to 121 could be a flag. Also, I'd say that just keeping up with the different type of pace in the 121 is important / different than the pace and soft skills in 135 and fractional.
09-20-2022, 07:43 PM
#18
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Joined APC: Dec 2019
Posts: 113
Originally Posted by pilotguy7
I'd say if you want to go to a major, stay at the 121 - not that you can't go to a legacy from FJ (people do), but the legacies will see you "like and can handle" the 121. Bouncing fro 121 to frac then trying to go back to 121 could be a flag. Also, I'd say that just keeping up with the different type of pace in the 121 is important / different than the pace and soft skills in 135 and fractional.
You are a troll!
09-21-2022, 05:15 AM
#19
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Originally Posted by FRAC
Everyone leaving Flex is going 121. You have your paces mixed up (anyone can look up your prior post on your experience) Did 121 RJ flying for almost 15 years. It’s beyond vanilla pudding comparing hub n spoke 121 to 91/91k/135 flying. 121 50% of your flights you are cradled all the way in by ATC. The other 40% you’re going into C/D airspace. Flying fractionally or for any big 135 operation almost half you flights end in canceling IFR on your own.
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You are a troll!
09-21-2022, 05:55 AM
#20
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Joined APC: Dec 2019
Posts: 113
Originally Posted by ShoutVFR
Lot of lower time guys jumping ship or is it longer term pilots getting curious about "the other side?"
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