One other related question: I have heard several people say “just finish training then leave.” Of course I wouldn’t do that (no point and d*ck move), but would that really be any better than someone quitting during training? I’d think wasting all the company’s time and money of training you then leaving would be way worse.


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I believe company A does AQP training.. therefore it starts day 1.

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Atta boy, good decision.
All regionals are expecting you to leave when you get the call. They do hope that you’ll be around long enough to repay their considerable investment in you. If you split right away, on a lateral move, to another regional; your commitment to any future employer would be in question.
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It’s business for the companies... make sure you pay back all of the company $ you recieve. Quitting right after SOE ends won’t win you any popularity contests but at least it won’t look like you’re a helicopter pilot who can’t hack it as an airline guy and washed out of training and therefore is a potential training risk/ liability for any other airline you apply to.

My best advice: enjoy the vacation, get through SOE and fly the Line for a bit before you make your final decision. You need 1000hrs 121 SIC time and 2500TT to upgrade to Captain at most places and even more to be competitive for majors (helicopter time doesn’t count for much unfortunately) You don’t loose anything by hanging out and gaining experience before you leave.

No plans on quitting after training, I had just heard that from a couple folks and it struck me as being worse than a quit during training. Not a helo pilot but I understand what you mean. Thanks for all your advice - very helpful. I'll be sticking with Company A and enjoying the rest of my "vacation."

Sorry, I misread some of your post and thought you were mentioning RTP and Army Rotary... got it now.

Another option that may work at Company A is emailing the training department and volunteering to be available for a short notice training class if someone needs to back out at the last minute (sick, family emergency, etc.). One of my peers was getting pretty ancy about having all the time off and sent a similar email (not asking for training timeline updates mind you but just volunteering to be available for a class on short notice if someone had to back out) and got a slot a couple of classes earlier.

As others said, always finish training and get online once you start. Probably best to finish probation as well so they don't wonder about that. After that a lateral move would be ok if you can articulate good reasons why.

You at Piedmont lol? We get a lot of paid vacation in the beginning and during upgrade, then we get some great hotel appreciation times with our low actual flying schedules. Good news, it’s affecting hiring so I’m sure market demands will effect change. Hold tight, they have little choice but to improve things.

It's all about life of liesure! Sitting at home making money.. benefits is better than anything in the world.. to think, 10 years ago people were happily sitting at home during a furlough not making a penny..

Amen to that!!