thanks for the clarification. That is similar to what we do with new CAs at a 121 carrier. The CA is restricted to higher mins, which means add 50 to the DA or MDA and 1/2 mile to the vis mins. Once they get 100 hours that is automatically removed.

For your first officer positions, how many hours of the instrument time need to be in an actual airplane (as opposed to sim)?

Good question! Shoot for 40 in the aircraft. Actual and sim count toward the 75 hours, but we need at least half to be in the actual aircraft.

We have the same "High Mins" under 135.225.

The situation I described is actually under our exemption which allows us to have IFR captains at less than the 1200 hours normally required by 135.243 (c)(2). There are other requirements related to training and supervision as well as significantly higher airport mins that I mentioned.

EFB Program
 

There was a post a while back about testing on an EFB program starting.

Did the EFB program ever get implemented or are you guys still using paper Jepp charts?

Yes, pilots started using the new EFBs about a year ago now. We went with the iPad Mini 4s.

Here's a link to the article for anyone interested: https://w3.ameriflight.com/efbs-land...IoDhIMDcuniJos

Awesome, thanks for the reply

Right now we are only using it for the Jepp charts. Once we get approval for Ops Spec A025 we will be able to put all of our publications on it (GOM, SOP, etc.)

Thanks ! At least you aren't carrying around\updating Jepp chart folders anymore.

What about W&B. Do you have a way to do that on the iPad yet or is that still manual\Paper?

Amen to that.

It is still manual. Our metro program manager has a test app to do metro w&b but anything like that will need to be approved by the FAA before we can use it. And that will likely take a while.