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02-01-2024, 06:59 AM
#2961
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Joined APC: Apr 2022
Position: Skipper
Posts: 32
Originally Posted by 121noob
wow ok then I guess I wont be applying there.
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02-10-2024, 08:21 AM
#2962
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
Posts: 313
Please, for the rest of the forums' sake, learn how to post a GIF properly.
02-11-2024, 08:15 PM
#2963
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Joined APC: Apr 2022
Position: Skipper
Posts: 32
Originally Posted by Brickhut
Please, for the rest of the forums' sake, learn how to post a GIF properly.
03-21-2024, 09:37 AM
#2967
On Reserve
Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 14
Hello All,
I am just winding up a USAF/Part 121 career at Jetblue. I turn 65 in Sep. I just dont think I am ready to hang it up yet!I just came across the ad yesterday on FB, so I applied. I have a couple questions after digging through this lenghthy thread.
I have never flown a turboprop in my life. When I started flying, the USAF trainers were all jet. How hard is the transition to this SE beast?
Are all the PC-12's NGX? All have the Honeywell APEX?
Is there a rush to move to the left seat? I really don't need the hours, and I never like to turn down money, it's just that with my retirement funds, I am not that hard pressed to upgrade too quickly, particuarly with all that will be new to me.
Do the TPA and MCO guys do any island flying? That is what I am going to miss.
Are the young guys nice to the old guys? (trying to insert wink emoji.....not working)
I am just winding up a USAF/Part 121 career at Jetblue. I turn 65 in Sep. I just dont think I am ready to hang it up yet!I just came across the ad yesterday on FB, so I applied. I have a couple questions after digging through this lenghthy thread.
I have never flown a turboprop in my life. When I started flying, the USAF trainers were all jet. How hard is the transition to this SE beast?
Are all the PC-12's NGX? All have the Honeywell APEX?
Is there a rush to move to the left seat? I really don't need the hours, and I never like to turn down money, it's just that with my retirement funds, I am not that hard pressed to upgrade too quickly, particuarly with all that will be new to me.
Do the TPA and MCO guys do any island flying? That is what I am going to miss.
Are the young guys nice to the old guys? (trying to insert wink emoji.....not working)
03-21-2024, 04:34 PM
#2968
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 441
Redex
Flying the Pc-12 is not hard, especially being a turboprop since there is no mixture or prop to control. The lack of SE time won't be an issue, what will be the issue is that you must have either a Commercial SEL or a SEL ATP.
The majority of the fleet is the NG but all the new 12s are NGX. Both aircraft have the Honeywell APEX.
You can upgrade whenever you want or stay as an FO if that is what you want. However you can't go part-time until you have 100 hours as a Captain.
As far as the island flying that is done by all the bases. However since you are over 65 the only international flying that you will be doing will be to Canada. That is not Planes Sense's decision but an ICAO rule which happened a couple of years ago. The rule says no commercial flying if over 65 unless a county specifically allows it. The US and Canada does while the Bahamas, Mexico, and other Caribbean countries don't.
I'm in my 70s, and not the oldest pilot there, and us old timers are treated fine. In fact we are treated as if we are just one of the guys, which we are, so age is not an issue.
Flying the Pc-12 is not hard, especially being a turboprop since there is no mixture or prop to control. The lack of SE time won't be an issue, what will be the issue is that you must have either a Commercial SEL or a SEL ATP.
The majority of the fleet is the NG but all the new 12s are NGX. Both aircraft have the Honeywell APEX.
You can upgrade whenever you want or stay as an FO if that is what you want. However you can't go part-time until you have 100 hours as a Captain.
As far as the island flying that is done by all the bases. However since you are over 65 the only international flying that you will be doing will be to Canada. That is not Planes Sense's decision but an ICAO rule which happened a couple of years ago. The rule says no commercial flying if over 65 unless a county specifically allows it. The US and Canada does while the Bahamas, Mexico, and other Caribbean countries don't.
I'm in my 70s, and not the oldest pilot there, and us old timers are treated fine. In fact we are treated as if we are just one of the guys, which we are, so age is not an issue.
03-21-2024, 04:39 PM
#2969
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Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 441
Originally Posted by 818AJM
Do they have a training contract? If so how long?
Are taining contracts nomal ?
Are taining contracts nomal ?
03-22-2024, 07:17 AM
#2970
On Reserve
Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 14
Originally Posted by tanker
Redex
Flying the Pc-12 is not hard, especially being a turboprop since there is no mixture or prop to control. The lack of SE time won't be an issue, what will be the issue is that you must have either a Commercial SEL or a SEL ATP.
The majority of the fleet is the NG but all the new 12s are NGX. Both aircraft have the Honeywell APEX.
You can upgrade whenever you want or stay as an FO if that is what you want. However you can't go part-time until you have 100 hours as a Captain.
As far as the island flying that is done by all the bases. However since you are over 65 the only international flying that you will be doing will be to Canada. That is not Planes Sense's decision but an ICAO rule which happened a couple of years ago. The rule says no commercial flying if over 65 unless a county specifically allows it. The US and Canada does while the Bahamas, Mexico, and other Caribbean countries don't.
I'm in my 70s, and not the oldest pilot there, and us old timers are treated fine. In fact we are treated as if we are just one of the guys, which we are, so age is not an issue.
Flying the Pc-12 is not hard, especially being a turboprop since there is no mixture or prop to control. The lack of SE time won't be an issue, what will be the issue is that you must have either a Commercial SEL or a SEL ATP.
The majority of the fleet is the NG but all the new 12s are NGX. Both aircraft have the Honeywell APEX.
You can upgrade whenever you want or stay as an FO if that is what you want. However you can't go part-time until you have 100 hours as a Captain.
As far as the island flying that is done by all the bases. However since you are over 65 the only international flying that you will be doing will be to Canada. That is not Planes Sense's decision but an ICAO rule which happened a couple of years ago. The rule says no commercial flying if over 65 unless a county specifically allows it. The US and Canada does while the Bahamas, Mexico, and other Caribbean countries don't.
I'm in my 70s, and not the oldest pilot there, and us old timers are treated fine. In fact we are treated as if we are just one of the guys, which we are, so age is not an issue.
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