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05-07-2007 | 12:39 PM

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Come on bro, is it that much for an AIRLINE to ask its applicants to have 300hrs total time and 50 multi? I don't mean to have an attitude, but come on......................

No, its not "that much"....but Piedmont has hired Purdue grads since summer 2004 with as low as 25 multi. Granted those pilots had at least 500tt (still a pittance) and 120ish hours in the 727 simulator (helpful but not a Dash), but they all made it through training there okay. Knowing some of the folks they hired...if they can make it through training I'm sure most anybody can

05-07-2007 | 12:41 PM

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We had the 727 for a while. I got stuck with an A320 sim. D@mn frenchies!

05-07-2007 | 02:26 PM

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No, its not "that much"....but Piedmont has hired Purdue grads since summer 2004 with as low as 25 multi.

as low as 20

05-08-2007 | 01:46 PM

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ARe you serious?????????????????????/ THATS IS SO PATHETICALLY LOW, some of you guys have a lotta nerve, just get the godamn 50 multi is that too much to ask?

I agree with SAAB . . . It sounds super low when someones talk about 300/50. That's what some of the guys who have 4000+/2500ME think when they hear 600/100 or 1000/200. It the exact same feeling.

Nonetheless, I will NEVER NEVER fly PDT if that is truely the case. I'd rather take the bus or rent a car.

05-08-2007 | 02:14 PM

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Nonetheless, I will NEVER NEVER fly PDT if that is truely the case. I'd rather take the bus or rent a car.

Have you EVER EVER flown Piedmont anyway?

05-08-2007 | 02:15 PM

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Have you EVER EVER flown Piedmont anyway?

Used to . . quit flying them as of today.

05-08-2007 | 03:01 PM

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At our recently concluded career fair, we had a speaker who is a retired NWA 747 captain who was hired by Northwest Airlines in October of 1965 at the age of twenty-one with 265 hours. Captain on the 707, 727 and 747. Also a Flight Instructor/Check Airman on the 747.

05-08-2007 | 03:09 PM

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Required times will ebb and flow. People now think they're too low, but they'll start to rise again, eventually to the point where some may say they're too high. I think the quality of a low time pilot is highly dependent on how they were trained. I would trust a 300 hour ERAU or, dare I say it, UND pilot over someone from Joe Shmoe's FBO.

05-08-2007 | 03:09 PM

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Used to . . quit flying them as of today.

I can assure you there are no captains there under about 4000 TT. Most are well over 8 or 10,000 TT. But go ahead and leave more seats for the rest of us, thank you.

05-08-2007 | 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ellen

Used to . . quit flying them as of today.

I would sure like to know what airline ellen flies for. If everyone there hates their job as much as she does i will never fly on them again!!!..

ps. i know i don't mean it,

pps i still don't think ellen works for the airlines.