jabfly

Thanks for offering to answer questions...
I'm a retiring military aviator and interested in PSA. How challenging is it to get the DCA hub? How long is the commitment if I accept the ATP/CTP from PSA?
Thanks again!

PSA Recruiter

DCA is very junior. There is no commitment for the ATP-CTP, but there is one for the sign on bonus. The commitment for the initial sign on bonus is 2 years, and is prorated after 12 months.

BravoPapa

Actually he asked when will a new hire know...

So when do you actually know and when do you let your request be made known? Do you bid when you're hired, and then you find out then? Or find out sometime during training? Or at the end? Will they tell you whether you can get your preferred base or not when you let them know? Will you ever know it even before you start training?

jabfly

Sorry to ask this, but I'm getting confused by the APT requirements and what PSA offers. For the ATP, I thought there were three phases: (1) APT/CPT ground school, which is required to be completed before (2) ATP Written Test, then (3) satisfactory completion of the flying/sim portion?
If I understand this correctly, does PSA offer all three? OR does a pilot recruit have to complete some portion prior? (website says minimum requirement is ATP written).

What do you mean by 'be sure to be a current instrument pilot'? Is this relating to a certain number of instrument flight hours in the last 6/12 months, or are you referring to the instrument flight hour requirements to necessary to qualify for the ATP?

Lastly, you noted in a previous post 'cross-country flight hours requirements.' How do military pilots typically annotate cross-country flight hours... as that is not a separate field we tracked in our logbooks?

mdcny

Any word if PSA will ever open ORD as a base?

flybywp

Is there ever a time where PSA will offer a commuter positive space if they fail to make it on previous attempts? I've heard of other regionals offering this to their commuters as a "last resort".

Quarryman

Never heard it happen

new guy

You put in your bid at the beginning of indoc. Same as all regionals. Based on training duration, you'll have a second opportunity to big for your base of choice prior to completing training. You won't ever know before you've started training cause, well, who did you tell? And if you told them, why does it matter? You're not an employee (as in benefits and selecting bases) until day 1 of indoc, regardless of what additional training you've completed prior.

Yup, and this is ALL done at the same time, same location (or you can test out somewhere else after completing the ATP-CTP, training in Cincinnati, but why?

No, they handle all, as all three portions are required for the cert.

Believe they're referring to the interview (where you'll be asked IFR questions and as a pilot in general. Their training isn't "how to fly IFR", it's "how to fly PSA aircraft." So if day 4 you're asking basic instrument approach questions, life's going to get real hard, real fast.

I'm a current military pilot too. The idea is that you can answer all the questions about your logbook. So when asked "what did you log under," I said military flight rules (in the army it's 95-1). But since we had no cc, I used the flooring far aim

By definition, cross-country time includes any flight conducted by a pilot in an aircraft that includes a landing at a point other than the point of departure that includes the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems to navigate to the landing point. Reference: 14 CFR 61.1(b)(3)(i).

To meet the requirements for any pilot certificate with a rotorcraft category rating or the instrument-helicopter rating, or for the purpose of exercising recreational pilot privileges in a rotorcraft under 61.101(c), cross-country time requires a point of landing that is more than 25 nm straight-line distance from the original point of departure. 14 CFR 61.1(b)(3)(v)

For a military pilot who qualifies for a commercial pilot certificate (except with a rotorcraft category rating) under 61.73, cross-country time is more than 50 nm straight-line distance from the original point of departure with no landing requirement. 14 CFR 61.1(b)(3)(vii)

Your choice (if you have the certificate) 25 miles with a landing OR 50 miles in the military with no landing.

Rotorwashed

Helicopter cross country doesn't count towards atp, at least not on the civilian side. Not sure if the military requirements are different though.


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PSA Recruiter

Actually, yes it does. And do does helicopter instrument time counts toward ATP minimums as well.