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04-24-2019, 12:31 PM
#2041
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Position: Airbus FO
Posts: 110
[QUOTE=UhOhItsTheFiveO;2807129]I see PS is still advertising 1000TT for FO. As someone who is now at about 850 and will be at 1000 soon, how long after application is it taking to get an interview if they deem you qualified enough? Also if you pass the interview, what is the timeframe they are giving new hires for classes? I understand there is probably no summer classes due to business, but just curious how much further out past summer they are having classes.[/QUOTE
My friend was told today that they are not currently hiring FOs.
My friend was told today that they are not currently hiring FOs.
04-24-2019, 03:01 PM
#2043
New Hire
Joined APC: Mar 2019
Posts: 1
Originally Posted by UhOhItsTheFiveO
I see PS is still advertising 1000TT for FO. As someone who is now at about 850 and will be at 1000 soon, how long after application is it taking to get an interview if they deem you qualified enough? Also if you pass the interview, what is the timeframe they are giving new hires for classes? I understand there is probably no summer classes due to business, but just curious how much further out past summer they are having classes.
Here's the timeline for me when I recently applied for a FO position:
Early Jan. 2019 - emailed in my 1-page resume.
Next day - received an auto-response "we got your email"
1 week later - received an email with an invitation to fill out a lengthy application
End of Jan. - emailed in the application w. supporting documents
Late Feb. - got a call to schedule a Skype interview
Early March - did the Skype interview (technical, mostly IFR knowledge)
2 days later - got scheduled for in-person interview at KPSM
Late March - did the in-person interview plus sim evaluation at KPSM
3 days later - got an invitation to a class in early May
Hope this helps. Good luck!
04-27-2019, 12:05 PM
#2045
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 441
Currently all the Part-timers are in PSM and it is 8 on 20 off (not 28). However Management is looking into having Part-timers at the other bases but if Management decides to do it the schedule will be 9 on (with the 1st and last day being an airline day) and 19 off. Also keep in mind the 1st 6-7 months you will be full time doing 8 on and 6 off. That will cover new hire F/O training, 3 F/O rotations, which will be followed by the normal Capt upgrade. That is one week of Capt ground school, then 3 rotations in the left seat with an Instructor, a week of sims in Dallas (to include the Capt checkride), followed Capt IOE. Once all that is done and you have 100 hour as a Plane Sense Captain, about 2-3 rotations after IOE, then you can go to Part-time status.
05-09-2019, 04:32 PM
#2046
New Hire
Joined APC: Apr 2019
Posts: 5
150 Page Forum Spark Notes - Your Welcome
Spent the better part of a day going through this forum...as a guy who wants to go to PlaneSense....here are copy pasted spark notes. Your welcome. : )
toonces, now at jet blue is the absolute go to guy haha
Interview:
There are many interview gouges on the web and they are all pretty spot on. Here are my tips: 1. Study your Jepp charts thoroughly. Most pilots use NOS charts throughout IFR training and aren't familiar with the Jeppesen charts so compare and contrast the two versions to get a good understanding of the differences. 2. Review GPS systems and operations. If offered an interview you will be provided a link to a GPS refresher course and I advise you to take notes. 3. Review basic VFR and IFR stuff such as airspace wx / equipment regs as well as airspeed restrictions. 4. Spend some time in a sim or use a home flight sim software to practice IFR procedures.
The interview was a good experience for me and everyone at Planesense was friendly and welcoming. Study your material and bone up in the sim and you'll be fine. They'll make you feel right at home. One last tip. Make sure you have considered the lifestyle of this job. They will want to make sure that the schedule requirements will mesh well with your home life.
IFR takeoff, basic attitude instrument flying, climbs, descents, turns, track a course, ILS to missed approach. Read and decipher charts and approach plates. We get a wide variety of candidates - some of these skills elude them.
Prior to the official ground school you will go through an IFR refresher course followed by an evaluation. If you make through then you'll move on to PC12 initial FO ground school. In ground school you will learn about the aircraft and avionics systems of the PC12. In addition, you will learn a lot about company operations with regard to flying in the 91k and 135 environment. After ground school you'll go to Dallas for sim training. I haven't been to the sim yet so I can't comment there. So, what should you do to prepare for training? Well if you know your IFR skills are a little weak then I'd highly recommend that you find an experienced cfii and spend some time in a sim nailing down departures, approaches, holds and arrivals. Many people have washed out in Dallas due to lack of fundamental IFR skills and knowledge.
I was first one for today at Daytona, and straight to Redbird sim. Managed to keep it somewhere in ball park on ILS. It was sensitive.
Tech was third. ILS and VOR plates. Sectional with airspace questions.
Last question was Part 91 alternate required related.
Each new hire class has spots for 12.
Training
Training is 10 days in Portsmouth, NH, and 8 days in DFW for Flight Safety. They typically split new hire sim training into two groups; if you are in the second group you will be sent home while waiting for the sim. Expect anywhere from 3-4 weeks total from start to finish.
Training is 2 weeks in Portsmouth, NH for ground school and a week in Dallas at Flight Safety. Checkride is done in the sim. You may have to wait between ground school and the sim; they will send you home if you aren't PSM based.
You get a small stipend during training. All hotels are single occupancy and all transportation is provided. You get paid as a full employee on the day you complete your checkride.
If you are really a go getter, just get your hands on a PC-12NG POH and become familiar with it.
You guys will get an email with access to the crewroom which will have your prep material about 30 days prior to the start of your class date.
You will be staying at the Hampton inn and you guys will have your own rooms.
Your schedule will be a bit different from the one we had because they recently modified it but basically you will be in class from 8 to 4 almost every day during ground school.
It's a fire hose. Study together as a group and try to have fun with it.
2 full weeks in IFR refresher / ground school and a full week in the sim. Plan on 3 straight weeks of training and a final checkride before you're officially offered an FO position.
they do provide 3 (I think, at least 2) uniforms and you get an allowance for tailoring
At the end of ground is a 85 question multiple choice test. Then at the end of sim there's a standard checkride. I think my oral was just over a hour and the flight was maybe 1.5 hours or so.
The entire length of training, not once was there a situation where there was a trick question or someone was trying to fool me in to something simple. Everything is straight forward.
Dallas was challenging and great experience. Study every day and pay attention to what instructors pass along. Keep a good attitude through the process and you will do fine.
Chair fly at IGS and work on check list flows and profiles. That will help set you up for success at the sim.
Dallas was the most stressful week of my entire life, but I just got my official offer letter, so who can really complain now?!?
Go to quizlet. Search PC12NG, or PLanesense or whatever and there will be everything in there you need to know. Limits, icing speeds, Pusher ice, flap speeds, v speeds, and whatever else.
Schedule
Well, the schedule is the schedule. It is busier in the summer and less busy in the winter. In general, you'll fly 3-5 legs per day, about 60% passenger legs, and average maybe 50 hrs per month with 17 days on duty. You may be gone all 8 days, you might not. We stay in business class hotels, mainly Hilton, IHG, Marriott, and you will frequently, but not always, get a rental car at your overnight.
I've enjoyed my time at PlaneSense. It's a good company with management that generally works hard to both support the pilots and satisfy our owners. Sometimes you get the short end of the stick and sometimes you get pretty good deals.
Hours
You will fly between 700 - 800 hrs per year
Im certainly not complaining with over 50 hours a month. And likely to see more coming soon here
Contract
18 month prorated $12,000 first officer training contract
It's pro rated per month. Take 12k and divide by 18 and you get what it goes down by each month. Per the agreement you owe what's left. That begins the day you pass your ride in Dallas.
MISC
This is for your "on file" request. It's used for when you have a reroute or reschedule and they need to know what will pass muster with your delicate tastebuds. Pick whatever, make it simple, something any catering company could reasonably produce. I.e. Chicken Caesar salad.
Try T-Mobile. Free international data.
toonces, now at jet blue is the absolute go to guy haha
Interview:
There are many interview gouges on the web and they are all pretty spot on. Here are my tips: 1. Study your Jepp charts thoroughly. Most pilots use NOS charts throughout IFR training and aren't familiar with the Jeppesen charts so compare and contrast the two versions to get a good understanding of the differences. 2. Review GPS systems and operations. If offered an interview you will be provided a link to a GPS refresher course and I advise you to take notes. 3. Review basic VFR and IFR stuff such as airspace wx / equipment regs as well as airspeed restrictions. 4. Spend some time in a sim or use a home flight sim software to practice IFR procedures.
The interview was a good experience for me and everyone at Planesense was friendly and welcoming. Study your material and bone up in the sim and you'll be fine. They'll make you feel right at home. One last tip. Make sure you have considered the lifestyle of this job. They will want to make sure that the schedule requirements will mesh well with your home life.
IFR takeoff, basic attitude instrument flying, climbs, descents, turns, track a course, ILS to missed approach. Read and decipher charts and approach plates. We get a wide variety of candidates - some of these skills elude them.
Prior to the official ground school you will go through an IFR refresher course followed by an evaluation. If you make through then you'll move on to PC12 initial FO ground school. In ground school you will learn about the aircraft and avionics systems of the PC12. In addition, you will learn a lot about company operations with regard to flying in the 91k and 135 environment. After ground school you'll go to Dallas for sim training. I haven't been to the sim yet so I can't comment there. So, what should you do to prepare for training? Well if you know your IFR skills are a little weak then I'd highly recommend that you find an experienced cfii and spend some time in a sim nailing down departures, approaches, holds and arrivals. Many people have washed out in Dallas due to lack of fundamental IFR skills and knowledge.
I was first one for today at Daytona, and straight to Redbird sim. Managed to keep it somewhere in ball park on ILS. It was sensitive.
Tech was third. ILS and VOR plates. Sectional with airspace questions.
Last question was Part 91 alternate required related.
Each new hire class has spots for 12.
Training
Training is 10 days in Portsmouth, NH, and 8 days in DFW for Flight Safety. They typically split new hire sim training into two groups; if you are in the second group you will be sent home while waiting for the sim. Expect anywhere from 3-4 weeks total from start to finish.
Training is 2 weeks in Portsmouth, NH for ground school and a week in Dallas at Flight Safety. Checkride is done in the sim. You may have to wait between ground school and the sim; they will send you home if you aren't PSM based.
You get a small stipend during training. All hotels are single occupancy and all transportation is provided. You get paid as a full employee on the day you complete your checkride.
If you are really a go getter, just get your hands on a PC-12NG POH and become familiar with it.
You guys will get an email with access to the crewroom which will have your prep material about 30 days prior to the start of your class date.
You will be staying at the Hampton inn and you guys will have your own rooms.
Your schedule will be a bit different from the one we had because they recently modified it but basically you will be in class from 8 to 4 almost every day during ground school.
It's a fire hose. Study together as a group and try to have fun with it.
2 full weeks in IFR refresher / ground school and a full week in the sim. Plan on 3 straight weeks of training and a final checkride before you're officially offered an FO position.
they do provide 3 (I think, at least 2) uniforms and you get an allowance for tailoring
At the end of ground is a 85 question multiple choice test. Then at the end of sim there's a standard checkride. I think my oral was just over a hour and the flight was maybe 1.5 hours or so.
The entire length of training, not once was there a situation where there was a trick question or someone was trying to fool me in to something simple. Everything is straight forward.
Dallas was challenging and great experience. Study every day and pay attention to what instructors pass along. Keep a good attitude through the process and you will do fine.
Chair fly at IGS and work on check list flows and profiles. That will help set you up for success at the sim.
Dallas was the most stressful week of my entire life, but I just got my official offer letter, so who can really complain now?!?
Go to quizlet. Search PC12NG, or PLanesense or whatever and there will be everything in there you need to know. Limits, icing speeds, Pusher ice, flap speeds, v speeds, and whatever else.
Schedule
Well, the schedule is the schedule. It is busier in the summer and less busy in the winter. In general, you'll fly 3-5 legs per day, about 60% passenger legs, and average maybe 50 hrs per month with 17 days on duty. You may be gone all 8 days, you might not. We stay in business class hotels, mainly Hilton, IHG, Marriott, and you will frequently, but not always, get a rental car at your overnight.
I've enjoyed my time at PlaneSense. It's a good company with management that generally works hard to both support the pilots and satisfy our owners. Sometimes you get the short end of the stick and sometimes you get pretty good deals.
Hours
You will fly between 700 - 800 hrs per year
Im certainly not complaining with over 50 hours a month. And likely to see more coming soon here
Contract
18 month prorated $12,000 first officer training contract
It's pro rated per month. Take 12k and divide by 18 and you get what it goes down by each month. Per the agreement you owe what's left. That begins the day you pass your ride in Dallas.
MISC
This is for your "on file" request. It's used for when you have a reroute or reschedule and they need to know what will pass muster with your delicate tastebuds. Pick whatever, make it simple, something any catering company could reasonably produce. I.e. Chicken Caesar salad.
Try T-Mobile. Free international data.
05-10-2019, 03:45 PM
#2048
New Hire
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Posts: 8
Total flight time/fixed wing minimum: 1000TT hours
Highly qualified candidates will have a CFII and 75+ hours of instrument time
Current and valid second class FAA medical
Current passport with unrestricted international travel privileges
Valid driver’s license
Preferred but not required: Part 135 and/or Part 91 subpart K; Corporate flight; and/or flight time in advanced avionics systems or glass systems.
https://www.planesense.com/careers/o...pc-12-first-of
Highly qualified candidates will have a CFII and 75+ hours of instrument time
Current and valid second class FAA medical
Current passport with unrestricted international travel privileges
Valid driver’s license
Preferred but not required: Part 135 and/or Part 91 subpart K; Corporate flight; and/or flight time in advanced avionics systems or glass systems.
https://www.planesense.com/careers/o...pc-12-first-of
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