Flight Express
#12
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 346
If you don't think you will be able to move wherever they want you to, than don't go to the ground school. They hate when people come and waste their time and money just to leave because the base they wanted was not available. I have seen many people screw over FLX for that very reason. I can gaurantee you that if you do go and leave during training because it's not what you really wanted they will not let you come to another ground school again.
Remember: it will be on your PRIA forms for when you want to apply for another air carrier.
#14
Keep flying and apply when you reach 135mins. Their mins are dictated by the regs not what the pilot job market will bare ie regionals.
#15
true. I would send that resume in now anyway. Historically they have hired VFR only guys but it was mostly because they NEEDED pilots bad. If you send now and then again when you get to 1200 they will know that you really are interested.
#16
I know things are super slow now, but what would you guys say would be an "average" upgrade time to the baron, assuming conditions better than this depression, but not quite as good as the huge hiring boom? (Ie, what we might expect in a year and a half or so)?
#17
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 346
We are down to 3 Baron runs at the moment and own 28 or something Barons, if that tells you anything. With Bayside owning Flight Express and AirNet it has messed up the way both companies use to do things separately. I think some of Flight Express' Baron runs went to AirNet and a lot of Baron runs from AirNet went to Flight Express who does them in the much cheaper to operate 210.
#18
Upgrade used to be less than a year. I started in April of 07 and upgraded in december. Things have changed though that is for sure. Nashville currently has 3 baron runs itself though. One is about to go away in a month or so but another one is rumored to be coming.
#19
If you don't think you will be able to move wherever they want you to, than don't go to the ground school. They hate when people come and waste their time and money just to leave because the base they wanted was not available. I have seen many people screw over FLX for that very reason. I can gaurantee you that if you do go and leave during training because it's not what you really wanted they will not let you come to another ground school again.
Remember: it will be on your PRIA forms for when you want to apply for another air carrier.
Remember: it will be on your PRIA forms for when you want to apply for another air carrier.
#20
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 346
You won't know until after ground school where you will go. Senority starts after the final exam for ground and whose with the higher scores get to pick what base they want.
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