If you like the canyon thing, I don't see anything wrong with taking the job and enjoying life until you get a better offer. Turbine PIC IS turbine PIC and NetJets hires from all backgrounds. We always have. The only snag you may hit is I believe we have an instrument hours requirement, but I would have to check to see what it was since I had all mins plus a bit when I first applied. Good luck! One word of advice: Never pass on a good job hoping a better one comes along. I don't know if you consider the canyon job good, but if it fits right now for you, take it. There's nothing stopping you from taking a better offer later, and if it is awhile until the better offer, you arfe building turbine MULTI. The multi is important since you have 30 hours.

 

Thanks Tim. I think commuting and sitting reserve for a regional would would totally suck. I don't even know if it would build time very fast if I were sitting reserve either. There are a couple of jobs like this and another one where I would probably be able to build flight time pretty quick and still work military reserves (which is where the money would be compared to these jobs, but doesn't build much time at .8 hours per sortie).

I really do think that NetJets would be the type of place for me, I just hope that they are still hiring when I get the mins and that if they are they like me. It sounds as though they are getting very picky with having so many applicants, but that is how it works when everyone (or a lot of people anyway) want to work for you.

 

That is exactly what is making this decision sooooo hard..... I have a class date for the canyon job. It's basically 3 times the pay (if you can believe that lol) compared to what I am making right now instructing. That's not saying very much at all though. (The instruction pay can get better, I am just in a slow season at the end of the semester here.) I am having a really hard time giving up on this job when I don't have so much as an interview on the horizon at a regional. (I will have my stuff on airlineapps.com as of Monday) Basically I would be giving up a sure thing, for the hopes of a regional job. I am seriously back and forth every day on it.

Some may say take the job and if the regionals call, just bail. But there it a really annoying 1 year contract at the canyon job........makes it a tough decision.

 

I second this, I flew a BE-1900 on the Alaska North Slope and NJA loved that. You won't get any better hard IFR flight time, white-out conditions, flatlight, etc anywhere else than you would in Alaska. That's my two cents of info!

 

I'm a 4000 hr pilot, with all of my PIC in singles, and about 1000 121 jet SIC. Without the multi PIC, would I be towards the bottom of the stack?

 

I don't think anyone other than the union guys doing the hiring, with Derinda's help, can say how the stack flows. My CAPT buddy says their internal message boards are always full of guys scratching their heads trying to get guys hired. I think it was already said, but quality/uniqueness of your flying may weigh just as heavy in your favor.