Hey everyone, Ive currently been working as a CFI (at KBVI !) for about a year and looking to move up. I seem to like Air Wisky and Piedmont due to their proximity to where I live (pittsburgh) and the positive comments I hear about both company's.

So I'm asking anyone who works at either of these places to tell me the pros and cons of both as it would help me make a better informed decision.

Thanks for the time.
-Jesse

 

AWAC from everything I've seen and heard. You'd most likely fly better equipment as well.

 

I went to ProFlight back in the day, I guess you're working at Moore now.. SK was my old instructor. Republic has a PIT base, you could cut out the commute.

 

Piedmont is good company ,small, alot of pilots come here get there time and move on....kind of at a plateau with moving up but things good change in the good direction once mainline decides to give a planes e.t.c. Feel free to PM me with more questions be happy to answer them.

 

Probably 15% of the AWAC pilot group is a Piedmont alum.

 

Republic would be nice, but from what I hear the PIT base is real senior, so I think I would have to commute anyways. It seems their multi time mins are very flexable but the 1000 is pretty firm, I know cause my good friend got a call from them today. Im at about 500tt and 70 multi, so i could get in with either piedmont or air w i think, but republic would be a little ways down the road.

It seems so far its mostly a choice not between air whisky and piedmont, but more like which base and which airplane do you want. lga / sby and dash 8 or phl /dca and the crj.

which do you guys prefer the dash 8 or crj...i personally like to crank and bank and hand fly.

KiloAlpha - Small world! I work with him daily, Sean is a great guy and helped me get my CFI last year, he just got a job for corperate air and will be moving up.

 

I've flown both and worked at both. I will never talk bad about the dash, but when you are on your eighth leg of the day "crank and bank and hand fly" gets old. You just want to get to the hotel and have a day off. The summer gets long sitting in Navy blue airplanes with less than reliable APU's. The dash is a blast to fly, but you get more creature comforts and feel the need to shower just a little less in the RJ. Both have pretty good contracts, but the pay is higher at AWAC. You mentioned SBY, the place is a nightmare to nonrev in and out of in the summer when everyone is going to Ocean City. Philly is a nightmare to get to from PIT all the time, and you have to go through Philly to commute to SBY. As Boiler said, there are a lot of PDT refugees at AWAC, and I don't think I ever ran into an AWAC pilot at PDT. Take that for what it's worth. G2T

 

PIT isn't too senior for RAH, I'm hoping to get it within a few months.. until then, I'm stuck in PHL

 

the secrect to the pit-phl commute is WN.

 

g2tt- thanks for that inside info, exactly what i was looking for! i appreciate it. would lga be a better place to commute to / from pit ?

doug or - the secret to the commute is WN? could you clarify that, washington national you mean? commuting or driving from there? - thanks

kiloalpha - thanks for the update