Comair about to lower thier mins again!!!
04-11-2007 | 02:22 PM
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You two are making me sick. Go get some more experience and quit begging online. Besides, its junior pilots with your will work for food (but not rent...) attitude that is letting the regionals pay garbage. Trust me, you will not regret it as your confidence, experience, and self respect will be much higher.
04-11-2007 | 02:33 PM
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I think you HAVE to apply on www.airlineapps.com and i think it will only go through if you have 50 hours or more. Again there are multiple people that I know at comair and just about every other airline that have less than 100 multi hours most around 60 lowest time i have heard of someone gettin on at comair is 620 tt
I have a buddy at Air wisconsin that got on at 280 TT
I have multiple friends at Pinnacle that got on at about 500/50 and know people there that got hired with less than 300 TT
there are a ton of jobs available out there to pilots with low time, everyone at comair that I know though has done flight instruction or some other form of flying for a while before coming here
Good luck to
all!
I have a buddy at Air wisconsin that got on at 280 TT
I have multiple friends at Pinnacle that got on at about 500/50 and know people there that got hired with less than 300 TT
there are a ton of jobs available out there to pilots with low time, everyone at comair that I know though has done flight instruction or some other form of flying for a while before coming here
Good luck to
all!
250tt with Comm. M.E. Inst. or maybe it was 300tt. As far as multi-time goes, it maybe just that, a Multi Add-on. it will be interesting to see as thier annoucement is expected soon.
04-11-2007 | 02:50 PM
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Well anyway, I don't know what their plans are, I don't pay much attention to it as I have the job now...I do however believe that it is worth getting out into the CFI world...I only did it for a short time (6 months) but I learned more in those six months than I did in the previous 4 years about my flying skills, weather, and dealing with ATC, it was a great experience (even though it wasn't the best place to work) and you will be surprised at how fast you can rack up flight time ( I doubled mine )
04-11-2007 | 05:13 PM
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I agree with the CFI route. I don't plan on continuing CFIing long, but I get about 30+ hours a week and the associated learning. The only downside is, some of your skills deteriorate while others are refined.
04-11-2007 | 08:29 PM
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250TT?????? i think that is just UNSAFE... Aren't there any regs on this sort of stuff... somebody said it the other day, i think it was on here actually, but its gonna take some sort of catastrophe, maybe these desperate regional airlines should just start paying a decent amount... and it might be more appealing to prospective pilots.
"if you take care of your employees, your business will run itself."
"if you take care of your employees, your business will run itself."
04-12-2007 | 03:04 AM
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250TT?????? i think that is just UNSAFE... Aren't there any regs on this sort of stuff... somebody said it the other day, i think it was on here actually, but its gonna take some sort of catastrophe, maybe these desperate regional airlines should just start paying a decent amount... and it might be more appealing to prospective pilots.
"if you take care of your employees, your business will run itself."
"if you take care of your employees, your business will run itself."
One thing we must realize, is that the rest of the world has been doing this for years. When I was in flight school, I remember seeing many foreign students (Chinese,European...etc) That would leave after thier Comm.ME and go fly the big iron, I always felt it was just a matter of time before this country caught up to the world standard.
I mean look at Cathay Pacific, Shenzen, British Airways and the rest. Those guys take 250tt like you breath in air, don't think about it, and could care less. They only care if the canidate can fly the A/C to thier requirments.
Hopefully, as this shortage become more severe, it will put upward pricing pressure on salaries, benefits, etc.
04-12-2007 | 05:23 AM
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One thing we must realize, is that the rest of the world has been doing this for years. When I was in flight school, I remember seeing many foreign students (Chinese,European...etc) That would leave after thier Comm.ME and go fly the big iron, I always felt it was just a matter of time before this country caught up to the world standard.
I mean look at Cathay Pacific, Shenzen, British Airways and the rest. Those guys take 250tt like you breath in air, don't think about it, and could care less. They only care if the canidate can fly the A/C to thier requirments.
Hopefully, as this shortage become more severe, it will put upward pricing pressure on salaries, benefits, etc.
I mean look at Cathay Pacific, Shenzen, British Airways and the rest. Those guys take 250tt like you breath in air, don't think about it, and could care less. They only care if the canidate can fly the A/C to thier requirments.
Hopefully, as this shortage become more severe, it will put upward pricing pressure on salaries, benefits, etc.
Cathay
All First Officer applicants must meet the following minimum requirements:
- An ICAO Airline Transport Pilot's License (ATPL)
- A minimum of 1000 hours in one of the following categories:
- Airline Jet Transport
- Command Turbo Prop (MAUW greater than 20,000 Kgs)
- High Performance Military Jet
- Corporate Jet Command
- A current Class One Medical
- Fluent spoken & written English
- Experience commensurate with age
An applicant must possess the right to live and work in the chosen Base Area. The Company will not sponsor applications to immigration authorities for Flight Crew to live and work in any port other than Hong Kong
Requirements for Position of First Officer - A330/A340 and B777
- A minimum of 4,000 hours total flying time
- A minimum of 2,000 hours multi-crew, multi-engined jet aircraft experience
- ICAO ATPL
- English language fluency (written and verbal comprehension)
- Experience commensurate with age
- Type rated would be advantageous
04-12-2007 | 06:41 AM
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If you want to get some serious experience in a short amount of time.. Take your 300 hours and go tow banners for the summer.. You could easily have 700 when you're finished.. Then go up to Alaska where you can fly VFR part 135.. Do that for a season and the confidence and knowlege you will have will far exceed what you will learn watching the clouds go by a FL 330 on auto-pilot. With part 135 IFR mins, you can start flying muti-turbine PIC at many of the cargo outfits... Just a thought..
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