How important is multi hours?
 

Let's say I have 500TT/375MT and another guy has 500TT/15MT. Will regionals look at me differently than the other guy or do they only look for TT?

Take your pointer and index fingers and place them on the opposing wrist. If you can count 5-10 pulses you should be golden.. ME time is a bonus

If I could go back to when I had 500 hours, I'd pick a different career.. would have gone to be a pharmacist.. pop out of school making 70,000-100,000+ per year.. sure as h3ll beat 21,000

multi time is golden time, but yes more than likely they will favor you especially with such drastic differences in multi time. they consider a lot of things when they hire you, such as having a cfi, ii, mei, types of planes flown, other forms of education, grades, personality during the interview, pretty much anything under the sun is fair game.

If everything else were roughly equal, you would get the job.

Actually in this environment they would hire both of you.

multi seems like the biggest thing holding me back....

I know how the aviation industry is :/ but thanks for further enlightning me :P

At least you can say you tried, and are chasing your dream......many don't......

but then again, is a dream worth getting paid 21,000 a year? O_o

leaving flying for the dream of filling little bottles with pills all day long? um.... no thanks.

no kidding. my family owned a pharmacy. my GOD how boring.

Yes. It is, I've wanted to fly all my life.

well I have a question about multi aswell. I'm going to get my MEI, but the school i'm going to CFI at has no twins. I plan on instructing for a couple years. will I be hireable at the regionals with like, lets say 800TT and only like 20ME with a 4 year degree?

Yes the money sucks starting out. It is much lower than it should be but, if you can say that you are genuinely excited to go to work then you are on the right path. Many people out there make lots of money only to be unhappy. To those "living the dream" I salute you (AC/DC style)!

I heard Mesa just lowered there mins to only 3 pulses!:D

I heard they now have a waiver for pacemakers and artificial lungs.

And Go-Jets is starting to hire dead people. I'm sure they can get em to PFT.

Well Gulfstream will always sell you the pulses you need.:eek:

Well, in keeping with the grammatical theme of the title of this thread i guess my answer would be : "they be pretty important":D

Ya, gotta have the ME ticket to get the job... as long as you have 6 pulses within 6 months and one bp reading.... :rolleyes:

The airlines would obviously like the higher multi time of the two, but only if the applicants are equal in all other respects. There are a lot of things they look for in interviews like attitude, likability, general knowledge, etc.. With the state of the regionals at this point, they will probably hire you both... from what I hear from some folks on here, many carriers are having trouble filling classes.

lol Deez...

Multi hours are as important as the market...i was hired a year ago with unheard of low multi time because of a "crunch" ... a year later, and multi time is "nice to have" time....When i first looked to see what jobs were out there...the only thing that mattered (typically) was Multi time...AE would take our grades @ 500 hrs...but you better have a solid 100 multi, or no call (friend was told to get two hours when he had 98 multi)

On other notes, the higher paid friends of mine who graduated college with me started around 40k or so...promotions do come, but there's no guarantee, and while it's totally possible to make over 100k a year in some of their fields, there are far less people actually doing it in many majors than there are in aviation...while not the overwhelming majority of pilots, there are still a very fair share making nice six figure incomes.

To contrast...a year and half ago when i was applying, you needed more ME time then some places are asking for TOTAL time now. It's all relative.

I dunno if Im going to be miserable, I would rather be miserable with money, I love what I do, and I love shooting the **** with pilots, but to me, my dream is to have a Ferrari/Porsche/Lamborghini (any of those will do) wear linen pants all day long, drinking mojitos with hot spanish women at my side, also I would like a nice house, a boat, and a J-3, now thats what I call living, the sad thing is, the "glory days" pilots could have all that (minus the Lamborghini), our generation we consider ourselves lucky if we get on with CAL, making poop wages:o

You would be hard pressed to make that much money even if you weren't a pilot.