Who is hiring 1500hr street FO's?
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I've heard that the ATR is an incredibly difficult plane to learn, coupled with the fact that Silver isn't AQP. I hear that they have a very high fail rate. Is any of this true?
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Piedmont, Envoy, Skywest, and Republic are hiring outside of Cadet Programs. I have no turbine time, 25 multi, and have CJOs from Piedmont and Envoy. I have no degree and a check ride failure. Just keep updating your hours. My apps have sat at some places for nearly 6 months before being called. It might not be your first choice, but WheelsUp is hiring. They will sponsor ATP/CTP too.
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It's not the Indians, it's the arrow
It's better than Zero or CFI at $28 an hour. we all have to put our dues in.
Beggar can't be chooser.
Like previously mentioned, go to 135, build some time and gain experience if 121 aren't calling you back. You can have 1,500 or 2,500 hours and they aren't hiring, will you sit on the side instructing still?
Beggar can't be chooser.
Like previously mentioned, go to 135, build some time and gain experience if 121 aren't calling you back. You can have 1,500 or 2,500 hours and they aren't hiring, will you sit on the side instructing still?
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IDK how to break it to you ... but there's not some secret place where all the $100K/yr entry level 121 jobs hide.
You're fighting a bunch of type A 23yo eager-beavers who will move where the jobs are and take what they can get.
You're fighting a bunch of type A 23yo eager-beavers who will move where the jobs are and take what they can get.
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Can't live on 63,000...considering not so many years ago first officers were making less than 15,000, you may have always been doomed for the gutter. Best to go find a silver spoon somewhere, instead of the lowly wages of a forlorn pilot.
Before you focus on learning to fly the airplane, focus on learning to live within your means. It may be a critical skill for you, in aviation.
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Not really new. It was happening back in the mid-late 90s, except that back then you didn't need an ATP. Places like Mesa were taking people with around 500 hours total and a smattering of multiengine time. Of course, back then, the regionals were all still mostly flying Beech 1900s and Saab 340s and the like.
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A "street first officer" (no such term) would be a first officer who enters employment as a direct-entry, without ever having served in a lower capacity (another employment by that operator). The only other way in would be a cadet program, so a normal hire is hired off the street. There's no such thing as a "street first officer," which is why it made me laugh.
An F16 pilot with 1,500 hours who is hired without serving in another capacity with the operator is a new-hire. There's no such thing as a "street first officer."
A 3,500 hour seneca night cargo pilot is irrelevant, as the original poster enquired about a 1,500 hour "street first officer," but if that seneca night cargo pilot had only 1,500 hours, then (s)he would be a new hire, just like anybody else, because normal hiring is "off the street," and there is no such thing as a "street first officer."
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