ACMI is 121 cargo/passenger charter, where the company supplies Airplanes, Crew, Maintenance, and Insurance.
CMI is where the customer supplies the airplane. Think of Kalitta(K4), Atlas, Southern, ATI, ABX, Western Global, Sky Lease, Omni, and a few others.

 

Yes, sometimes in aviation there's bad apples or giant ego's that can be unfair, but generally speaking, you must own it moving forward.
I can speak for Kalitta(K4) and will not hesitate to say that the training is very difficult for some one new to international wide body flying, is a fire hose at times, and instructors who only respect you giving 150% effort. People that complain about early or late sim times... Just don't do it.
Point being, the training I received at Mesa was geared for new people leaving bug smasher flying, new to jets, etc. It was a great transition.
It is my understanding that the training at majors is top notch and geared to making you the pilot they want. Everyone between regionals and the majors is geared towards weeding out those that aren't cutting the mustard, not interested in growing you.

 

I definitely own it, I know I could have done more.

 

Not really wanting to share which one, but it wasn't Air Wisconsin. It was one that is well known for not having a great training program and MANY failures (which I didn't believe was true until I was there). Trained by an outside company, evaluated by bitter company pilots (mostly, not all). It seems they are attempting to use the pilots coming through training to try and prove a point or effect change.

 

PSA? TSA? You don't have to answer.

 

I’m guessing psa they flunk out a lot of pilots.

 

It sounds kinda like Gojet tbh.

 

Hey nebiew right here on the latest October class, any advice or gouges for the next 3 months or so of training?

 

I second that

 

Yeah, but PSA isn’t considered a crap regional. OP said he went to a “crap” regional.