There are probably a lot of pilots out there (or at least on this forum) who wish they were in your shoes right now and had an offer from RAH. I'm sure the training agreement would be a non-issue for them, so I wouldn't sweat it.

But of course, you gotta do whats best for you. Don't let anything said by anyone else in here sway your opinion.

 

I had 0.0 hours of glass, jet, turbine, anything before walking into RAH. I was 1800TT and 350 ME when hired. You will do fine in the sim. The FSI guys have taught this enough to know how to get it through to you the first time.

Study at nights...but not too long. 2-3 hours a night should be plenty if you take good notes in class. Make sure you go out on Friday or Saturday night and have some fun...otherwise training will be miserable.

As far as the training contract...I've heard some people they haven't gone after, others they have. Luck of the draw I guess but I doubt you'd be jettin' outta here in two years anyways. Good luck.

 

Hey, same here. I am in DFW FSI. I'm with Eagle though, not RAH but all the same stuff anyway.

 

Once again, thanks for all of the comments. As far as the training contract goes, I was more interested about what they would do if a student couldn't complete the training or decided during the training that airline life wasn't the way to go.

 

All the training contracts I ever heard of hinged upon the trainee completing training before they take effect. If you leave training, you won't owe them money, in most cases. As for being worried about the training contract, don't sweat it. RAH is a destination of sorts, i.e. lots of RJ guys and 135ers like me have flocked this way because it is a good company. I would imagine most people who move on are captains going to bigger things or maybe guys who get jobs closer to home. The training contracts to beware of are from pits of hell (mesa, crappy 135, etc) who want to suck you in and beat you regularly for the contracts duration, or make $ off you when you run screaming.

 

RE Training agreements, if you leave voluntarily, expect the company to come after you. Whether they do or not is at their discretion, but I know plenty of companies that have simply sold the debt (at a discount) to a credit collection agency and let them be the bad guy. If you wash out of training or are fired for cause, then companies probably won't come after you.

Simply put, if you sign an agreement, make darn well sure that you can commit to it (either through time or money), and be sure to look at (or ask) all of the conditions under which the contract applies.

This is a rapidly changing industry. Although 2 years sounds like short time, a lot can happen in that time frame. I know plenty of people who have left regionals with less than 2 years to go elsewhere (either corporate or other gigs, or lateral moves to better regionals for better money or QOL).

 

The RAH training agreement hinges on you finishing training. If you bow out before you complete training, you owe nothing. That is straight from Linda Bannister's mouth.