the next day. No failures or stage check failures tho

 

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?

 

What was your total time? SkyWest sent TBNT, PDT hasn't replied, and I will not be subject to the RPA punitive contract.

 

I can't live on $63k/yr otherwise I would consider it.

 

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?

 

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.

 

"Street first officers?" Seriously?

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.

 

In his defense ... what I THINK that means is first officers who are not near 121 upgrade minimums. So an F16 pilot and a 3500 hour seneca night cargo pilot would both also count as "street FO's"

 

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.

 

A "street captain" is one who enters employment as a direct-entry, without serving as a first officer. "Street captain" differentiates a new-hire captain from one who previously served as a first officer with that operator.

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."