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Jetlife 04-21-2016 08:21 PM


Originally Posted by tlove482 (Post 2114521)
There's not much else you can do to incetivise people to fly 402s. Either you want to do it or you don't. There is nothing they can give that's going to stop someone who wants to go to the regionals from leaving.

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But but, there's a pilot shortage that is causing this... :rolleyes:

tlove482 04-21-2016 08:38 PM


Originally Posted by LRSRanger (Post 2114525)
So why do the FO thing? If they want to go regional they will go, why pay someone to go from 500-1500TT when they will just leave anyway. Seems to me they should realize that all these starry eyed youngsters want to fly jets anyway, and crappy 402's are just a means to an end. Pay captains well and there will be enough weirdos with no real long term career aspirations to make service.


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Agreed.

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VIRotate 04-21-2016 09:11 PM


Originally Posted by LRSRanger (Post 2114525)
So why do the FO thing? If they want to go regional they will go, why pay someone to go from 500-1500TT when they will just leave anyway. Seems to me they should realize that all these starry eyed youngsters want to fly jets anyway, and crappy 402's are just a means to an end. Pay captains well and there will be enough weirdos with no real long term career aspirations to make service.


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Love the comment about the weirdos haha.

Cape Air just cannot find street captains to fly the 402. The ones they have managed to find usually end up doing pretty bad in training. The FO program is the only way they can try to have a continuous flow of captains to staff 80+ Cessna 402s and a handful of BN-2s, C208s, and ATRs. Without it, they would have to downsize severely. They already had to pull out of Providence and another city or two because they couldn't staff the flying. Heck most of the captains in the Midwest are TDY guys.

On a positive note, looks like we drove the butthurt captains out of this thread. Just stay far away. You've been warned.

LRSRanger 04-21-2016 09:13 PM

Lol no worries zero desire to fly a 402 for Cape!


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flyboy15 04-22-2016 09:33 AM


Originally Posted by LRSRanger (Post 2114525)
So why do the FO thing? If they want to go regional they will go, why pay someone to go from 500-1500TT when they will just leave anyway. Seems to me they should realize that all these starry eyed youngsters want to fly jets anyway, and crappy 402's are just a means to an end. Pay captains well and there will be enough weirdos with no real long term career aspirations to make service.


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Where is the like button?! This comment is just awesome! HAHAHA

tlove482 04-22-2016 10:05 AM


Originally Posted by flyboy15 (Post 2114772)
Where is the like button?! This comment is just awesome! HAHAHA

It is. I bet they could keep captains if they added the 10 bucks an hour to their pay. It'd make them have to take a major pay cut to leave.

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F50driver 04-22-2016 04:30 PM


Originally Posted by VIRotate (Post 2114552)
Love the comment about the weirdos haha.

Cape Air just cannot find street captains to fly the 402. The ones they have managed to find usually end up doing pretty bad in training. The FO program is the only way they can try to have a continuous flow of captains to staff 80+ Cessna 402s and a handful of BN-2s, C208s, and ATRs. Without it, they would have to downsize severely. They already had to pull out of Providence and another city or two because they couldn't staff the flying. Heck most of the captains in the Midwest are TDY guys.

On a positive note, looks like we drove the butthurt captains out of this thread. Just stay far away. You've been warned.

I applied actually a week ago since I wanna come back to aviation but it seems that there is no Captain shortage..(I see now why)

it's easier to get hired by a regional..

tell Cape they just lost a potential multi piston hugger..

(Call me stupid or whatever but I love old airplanes)

F50driver 04-22-2016 04:31 PM

Oh I forgot,

LIKE!

mojo6911 04-22-2016 05:00 PM

You could potentially work at Cape Air and get 1000 PIC and go directly to a regional as a DEC in a modern jet.

flyboy15 04-22-2016 05:11 PM

Anybody know how many signed and how many left?


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