You will make about the same as you would on unemployment, and you will get a crap ton of hours and experience.

As awful as that sounds, it is true.

 

Wow, nice job

 

To be specific, Delta adds 0.2 per military sortie. You put in your hours as listed on your flight summary report, and you'll have to put in the number of sorties. When you review your Delta app, it magically calculates the conversion for you.

Also, to correct some bad gouge listed earlier in this thread, Airlineapps.com allows you to complete one app for free. If you want to apply to more than that, you have to pay their fee. United and Delta both use the site. If you are interested in Regionals, a handful of those use the site as well.

 

Great catch Wollac. I've heard and assumed they give a sortie conversion but have never seen it written. You're right though, the numbers it spits out on the app work out to a 0.2/sortie conversion.

 

One app for free for the first year. After that you have to pony up the cash!

 

Sort-of. The fee is a convenience fee, so that you maintain a single application that can be applied to one, two, or however many airlines (in the airlineapps system, obviously) that you wish. Don't want to pay the fee? Fine, and you can still apply to as many of the airlines as you like--but you'll have to create a separate application for all of them. You'll also have to keep each of them updated separately. The aggravation alone is worth the fee--which, of course, is exactly what they're counting on....

 

The FAA also allows for .2 per sortie when trying to get to the 1500hr requirement. Keep in mind student time counts towards that as well.

 

Will airlines look at single seat T-6 FAIP time the same way they look at Viper time? I hear about fighter guys getting hired with 1700-2000 at places like Delta, but where do they get the advantage? Is it purely in the large number of sorties they have or do you actually check a box on the application for having flown a fighter?

For an example lets say you had two guys that both had about 1800 Total Time, but of that 1800 TT one guy had 1000hrs in the Viper (769 sorties at 1.3hrs) and one guy had 1000hrs in the T-6 (also 769 sorties at 1.3hrs). If all else was equal between the two candidates when it came to recommendations, etc. are they both looked at the same way when being selected for an interview?

I guess the real question I should be asking is does a computer or person decide who gets an interview? Obviously it comes down to a person's decision when it comes to the final decision at the interview, but is it a numbers/box checking/recommendations game to get the interview?

 

There is also a difference between the .2/.3 per sortie that airlines use for all mil pilots (equates mil hours to civ hours) and what the airline might use for a fighter multiplier (fighter vs. crew aircraft). I've heard (rumor multiple times removed) that some airlines will internally multiply fighter hours to compare actual "stick time" to heavy hours. Same rumor was two or three times the hours. BUT . . . that's how they internally compare candidates and you'd probably never know if they did the multiplier or not. Also take with a grain of salt from a dude who's submitted exactly zero apps thus far.

 

Did Delta stop the military conversion? Just checked my airline apps on the Delta application and there was no longer a conversion.