menglish1

So I'm getting ready to put my resume into PSA today and have been studying the aviationinterview website and had a question. for all the low timers that PSA has been hiring did most have CRJ transition courses? I've seen them hire down into the 300's and my time is about 430/45 so I'm hoping that since I don't have a CRJ Trans. course that I'll still get the interview. Thanks in advanced. Also anyone care to share a really good resume format. Mine is not bad but i'm curious to see how others do it.

trackpilot

I think i remember reading about another guy on here who had the same hours as you that got hired.
I'm also thinking about applying there sometime in the near future. But i still need to do a little more research.
I'll be one of the 300hr guys with the CRJ course.

oldveedubs

What's your reasoning for PSA? Have you looked anywhere else or possibly staying in your current position to build some more TT and possibly multi?

menglish1

I could stay for awile but building TT is slow here. I'm an airport manager in a small (very small) indiana town. However i've been building 5-8 hours multi a week but that is going to dry up soon. PSA and ASA are my two favorite because Dayton is a 2:30 hour drive from fort wayne and ASA has flight from FWA to ATL as I build time I will also try comair since they fly from FWA to Cincinatti. My parents gave me $10,000 when I graduated to help me build time to get to the regionals. (thank you parents) I have about 7100 bucks left so just trying to figure what I could do with that 7100 and my time to get to the next step. I hate the PFT because the airlines going to train you anyway but I would like to get on sooner rather than later because 1. I'm bored at my sleepy little midwestern airport 2 senority is everything! Thanks guys keep the ideas coming. If you think there is another good airline that i'm qualified for please let me know. Thanks guys

de727ups

There is so much more to the story than "Seniority is everything". That's big academy marketing at it's best. Now, "luck is everything" is a more true statement, but it doesn't sell as well.

Go get a job flying the Grand Canyon or get a CFI job for six months somewhere outside of sleepy Indiana where you can experience something new and do some different kinds of flying. Save your $7100 and go out and build some more experience as a pilot. That way you earn your airline job rather than paying for it.

Squawk_5543

Thank you! My thoughts exactly.

trackpilot

You know i'd love to do that as well. Or maybe fly out in the Bahamas or something fun. But that's not financially feasable for everyone. The only reason i want to hurry up and get a job is so i can make some "decent" money and start paying off all these bills...
Plus with the CRJ course you have an edge up on everyone because you have basically already completed the ground course and have FTD time in the CRJ.

menglish1

I never intended on paying for my training. Thats why I was asking about if this would hurt me or not. However I'm not surprised on this bored to here the same old things as- get your cfi- build time that way. Well I have my cfi and I'm building it the old fashion way. thats why I still have all that money(which was the only thing my parents gave me). I have CFI friends and other people getting hired with less time than I. Why would I move pay to a new apartment, lose a good job that I have now 32kyear just to get someplace I could probably get now. I understand everyones gripes about "low time" pilots I just hate that every thread that starts with a legitimate question turns into the older guys, who had to have higher times to get on(I get it, it was harder then), bashing the younger guys and then the younger guys try to rationalize. Hey I'm not going to rationalize that low time pilots are as good as a higher time pilots because their not. but h$ll I bet you would have jumped at the chance if you could of. What ever happend to the older pilots at the airport helping the younger ones out. All I'm saying is for a change lets leave the "grumpy old timers" and the "punk new kids that haven't paid their dues" out of it and answer the D!amn question.



Rant Over

trackpilot

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah man i don't understand what these guys problems are but whatever... You basically hit the nail on the head, and they need to get over it.

de727ups

Nothing in this thread that calls for a rant...

Tad sensitive are we?

"Hey I'm not going to rationalize that low time pilots are as good as a higher time pilots because their not"

Couldn't agree more.

"What ever happend to the older pilots at the airport helping the younger ones out."

I think I am. Why do you think spend hours moderating this site? It seems to me you are hearing answers to your questions you don't like and would rather rant on, all a cussin' and a swearin', than wonder who so many folks at this speak out against 300 hour jet F/O's and paying for RJ programs as a way to get hired will less experience as a pilot.

"All I'm saying is for a change lets leave the "grumpy old timers" and the "punk new kids that haven't paid their dues" out of it and answer the D!amn question."

What was your question again?