They were so impressed with my ability to read and study an interview prep package that they named their parking lot after me. Well...to be fair, they only named the spot in the parking lot with the garbage bins after me but I am looking to aggressively expand.

Even though I know you are just trolling at this point, I still want to offer you some career advice (absolutely free, no obligation) based on my *parking lot garage bin's worth* wealth of knowledge......

 

^ this, but I think Mesa might be the only one to hire you.

Your attitude blows. Every time you get a response you don’t agree with 110%, it turns into a dumpster fire.

I’m quite confident that if you stay on this **** attitude, refusing to take advice, 24/7 adversarial garbage you keep letting out, your life will be miserable for the rest of your most likely short career as a pilot.
You have to remember that every trip will be with a different crew and we ALL talk to each other. It’s a small community and *******s are widely known.

Don’t put the cart in front of the horse.
There are a lot of recruiters/management types on these forums and it’s quite easy to deduce who you are. Tone it down.


Now that I think about it, you should probably start your own regional! I’m sure with your vast knowledge it will be an out-of-the-park success overnight.
You keep posting about wanting to learn or advice, but you are quite clear that you already know more than everyone in the industry.


Seriously, you should probably just ditch the userID and start fresh bc you already have the reputation.

 

OP, don’t let these guys ruffle your feathers. You asked some good questions and you called out some posters for trying to derail the thread. Basic internet MB stuff. Now you see all the BS that comes with dealing with a bunch of pilot ego-maniacs.

If anything lesson learned is this is a group that doesn’t take criticism very well because they all think they fly like Chuck Yeager, and they think being trained to be a mindless procedure follower makes them Albert Einstein. You have to bite your tongue a lot out there but it really is a very fun and rewarding profession. The job is very easy, especially once you get some seniority, and pays very well once you get to the next level.

Best of luck young man. Keep looking 5+ years ahead and you will do well in life.

Heads explode in 3,2,1...

 

I’m gonna be a little cranky against the primary premise of the question, which I take as “yeah, anybody can get hired today but what about the day when they only take the really good people “

Airline hiring environments tend to be great or awful with little in between. Airlines have furloughed 20% of their workforce and not hired a single new pilot for years. Airlines fold and dump 1000 experienced pilots on the market. The rare civilian pilots who succeed in a really bad market do it mostly by being the one guy with connections and experience.

So I applaud your go-get-em-ness ... but don’t think you can bootstrap your way to success through any hiring environment. Doesn’t work that way.

 

Where? Just curious, been in both seats of it.

 

Probly the most sensible post in the history of APC.

 

lol, this reminds me of that classic thread somebody bumped a couple weeks ago where that guy, who wasn't even at a Regional yet, asked how do I become a Chief Pilot because he strives to be better then everybody else in everything he does.

These type of personalities do not go over well in this world. Threads like this are the gift that keep on giving.

 

Ryan Air up in Alaska.

 

Don't over think it.

The best prep would be complete training on the same type at another regional.

Next would be 135 in similar equipment

But if you already have ATP mins, it's not going to be worth a career excursion to be "better prepared" for a regional. Unless you suck as a pilot and struggle with training events. In that case you can buy sim training in a specific RJ to improve your odds. Obviously in that case you'd want to stay on that jet for the rest of your career.

 

Those are definitely words.