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Old 02-26-2014, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by dashtrash300 View Post
Won't make $50K your first year. I made $50k last year for the first time and I am a 2008 hire. I also worked my butt off last year too

i guess you must have, over a decade here and barely clear 40k
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Old 02-26-2014, 07:01 PM
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Got two emails from Jody Meegan asking me to apply even after I replied that my min salary was 50k/year (and included a professional resume...).

I'm a corporate guy with tjet type & experience, laid-off and now flying air ambulance, loving my reliable two hard weeks off every month. . .
stick with that, you wont even get two weeks worth of days off here


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Any salary information for Piedmont? Quality of life/schedule/bases?
Upgrade time? - (I have 5800+ total, 1500+ turbine PIC, 500+ tjet PIC)

Thanks for any info.
New-hire FOs paid $27.82/hr including 75-hr guarantee
qol? lol none, unless you live in or extremely close to one of their archaic outstation bases (cho,ewn,mdt,roa,sby) even then....
upgrade? i think its down to a few years now mostly because people are abandoning ship en masse
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Old 02-26-2014, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by CapnSkeptic View Post
Got two emails from Jody Meegan asking me to apply even after I replied that my min salary was 50k/year (and included a professional resume...).

I'm a corporate guy with tjet type & experience, laid-off and now flying air ambulance, loving my reliable two hard weeks off every month. . .

Any salary information for Piedmont? Quality of life/schedule/bases?
Upgrade time? - (I have 5800+ total, 1500+ turbine PIC, 500+ tjet PIC)

Thanks for any info.
http://youtu.be/TCbFEgFajGU

Watch this video and then you will understand why they want you to apply and put on the application that your desired wage is 50k. So they can disqualify you and then tell congress there are no qualified workers.
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Old 02-26-2014, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by CrakPipeOvrheat View Post
http://youtu.be/TCbFEgFajGU

Watch this video and then you will understand why they want you to apply and put on the application that your desired wage is 50k. So they can disqualify you and then tell congress there are no qualified workers.
I don't think Pilot from Outside the USA will want to come here to fly for peanuts, they are already flying 737 in China with little over 300 hours and making more money then a Regional Airline here in the USA... Just sayin....
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Old 02-27-2014, 01:41 AM
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http://youtu.be/TCbFEgFajGU

Watch this video and then you will understand why they want you to apply and put on the application that your desired wage is 50k. So they can disqualify you and then tell congress there are no qualified workers.




I don't think Pilot from Outside the USA will want to come here to fly for peanuts, they are already flying 737 in China with little over 300 hours and making more money then a Regional Airline here in the USA... Just sayin....
Wow. You completely missed the point. The point is they are intentionally trying to disqualify candidates to "prove" to congress that there are not enough qualified workers now that the 1500hr rule is in effect. In hopes the rule gets changed. Did eagle hire 600 in 2013? Is endeavor on pace to hire 400? I personally have an app in at eagle and no one has called me. I have friends who have their apps in at endeavor and they haven't gotten a call (experienced pilots). Yet the company says they can't find enough pilots. Like the video said, you can legally disqualify an applicant if their desired salary is higher than what they are paying.
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Old 02-27-2014, 08:28 AM
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Do not go to piedmont. No future
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Old 02-27-2014, 11:49 AM
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Do not go to piedmont. No future
If you want to get 121 current, get 5k in bonus money and move to a major, if you have the time, come here. We have a couple of former military and coast guard pilots doing just that now.
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If you want to get 121 current, get 5k in bonus money and move to a major, if you have the time, come here. We have a couple of former military and coast guard pilots doing just that now.
The Dash is the most uncomfortable plane in the hot weather. So if you like sweatin all day long while flying 6 legs with old crusty capts, then yes- pdt is perfect for you.
Did I mention theres no future?
Whats 5K after taxes?
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The Dash is the most uncomfortable plane in the hot weather. So if you like sweatin all day long while flying 6 legs with old crusty capts, then yes- pdt is perfect for you.
Did I mention theres no future?
Whats 5K after taxes?
Your infatuation with ripping on PDT is kinda scary. You were here less than a year. Yes it looks very grim right now.
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Originally Posted by PDTpilotXX View Post
Your infatuation with ripping on PDT is kinda scary. You were here less than a year. Yes it looks very grim right now.
Didnt mean to scare you- just the guys thinking of going there. Im shocked guys have stayed longer than a year. This forum is for info sharing- if that bothers you, put me on your ignore list. Good luck and get outta there soon man. peace
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