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04-26-2020, 07:23 PM

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Turbosina

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Originally Posted by senecacaptain

back in mid 90s competitive was 2500 TT, 500 multi engine, preferably at a 135 flying Barons or Twin Cessnas

"have a pulse" only began around 2015 ish, my estimate

Pretty much. If I recall correctly in the late 90s I was told 3000TT, 500 ME, 'preferably some turbine time' to apply at SKW. Oh, and an ATP of course.

04-26-2020, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by saxman66

There was the 2005 to 2008 timeframe when regionals were hiring at 250 hours. I was “lucky” and had less than 900 when hired.

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exactly. Some of these folks are misremembering some years. I know plenty of guys that got picked up in 07, and early 08 with 250. If a guy had 500 back then, people were wondering why he wasn’t already at the regionals.

04-26-2020, 08:26 PM

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Nobody knows what the fck they’re talking about here. Nobody knows the future.

04-26-2020, 08:51 PM

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Nobody knows what the fck they’re talking about here. Nobody knows the future.

Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus, and Miss Cleo would know...
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04-27-2020, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by itsmytime

I believe that was around the late 08’ timeframe. In 2005-7 or so most “good” regionals were all pretty much 1000/100. There were a few that went down to 750/100 or even 600/50, but that was the lowest around that time. It was prop airlines like piedmont that went all the way to wet commercial as there were a few hired at 250/6, but that wasn’t until around 2008 or so.

Even places like Colgan had a pay for training setup in 2005(?)ish. You PAID for a beech 1900 type essentially for the job.

04-27-2020, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by itsmytime

IIRC, getting hired at a place like ASA into the 200 was totally doable at 400 hours, but at least 100 of those hours needed to be multi.

04-27-2020, 04:14 AM

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sflpilot

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I wouldn’t put it past some regionals to try and renew PFT.

04-27-2020, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by usmc-sgt

Even places like Colgan had a pay for training setup in 2005(?)ish. You PAID for a beech 1900 type essentially for the job.

No doubt. In the 90’s, ASA was PFT, and that was with mins of at least 2500/1500.

04-27-2020, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by ninerdriver

IIRC, getting hired at a place like ASA into the 200 was totally doable at 400 hours, but at least 100 of those hours needed to be multi.

agreed. That’s why ATP was so popular during that time frame. Price was still reasonable, and you got enough multi time to go the regionals with a wet commercial.

04-27-2020, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by itsmytime

There were some regionals who hired at 250-400 after the late '90s. Others stuck to their guns for 1000.

But if hiring was slow, competitive times went up quickly (ie 2002, 2008).