Fastest way to the regionals???
02-16-2008, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by tom14cat14
How can you be concerned with the fastest way of becomeing an airline pilot when you/they are working on their ppl? Your feet are barely wet and now you want to fly 50 or so people around. I think that this is a crazy way to think.
He'll know for sure when he gets some more experience. I'll tell you what is crazy - those that want to waste away their time doing something mediocre just because...
Originally Posted by Clue32
What ever happened to the days where you would have to instruct for a couple of years and save up enough money to buy 50 hours of multi time so that you could land a job flying checks from Jacksonville to Brimingham single pilot IFR and scare yourself enough times with no one on board so that another one or two years later you were confident and skilled enough to fly 19 passengers around in a 1900 for four years while you waited for your first part 121 upgrade to captain?
Originally Posted by 145Driver
What would you think if you knew your doctor had found the quickest and easiest way through med school?
02-16-2008, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Clue32
What ever happened to the days where you would have to instruct for a couple of years and save up enough money to buy 50 hours of multi time so that you could land a job flying checks from Jacksonville to Brimingham single pilot IFR and scare yourself enough times with no one on board so that another one or two years later you were confident and skilled enough to fly 19 passengers around in a 1900 for four years while you waited for your first part 121 upgrade to captain?
That's what we thought about doing in college ten years ago... or join the military and fly.
That's what we thought about doing in college ten years ago... or join the military and fly.
02-16-2008, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Clue32
What ever happened to the days where you would have to instruct for a couple of years and save up enough money to buy 50 hours of multi time so that you could land a job flying checks from Jacksonville to Brimingham single pilot IFR and scare yourself enough times with no one on board so that another one or two years later you were confident and skilled enough to fly 19 passengers around in a 1900 for four years while you waited for your first part 121 upgrade to captain?
Attitudes and the industry have changed.
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02-16-2008, 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
For the worse if you ask most people in the industry...
You're right. There is no one magic pill if you will that will cure all the "ills" of this industry. There's management, oil prices, consumer confidence, unions, mediation boards, differentiation in pay for the equipment pilots fly, and the list goes on and on....
It's the same in the healthcare industry. Is it doctors, insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies? Who btw pander all of these miracle drugs... yet the side affects alone could kill you.
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02-16-2008, 04:23 PM
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Fastest isn't the best. If it were there wouldn't be so many making lateral moves from one regional to another. I'm sure there are several that have done it that would vote against it. There are many quality experiences out there that will teach you valuable lessons you'll never learn flying 121. I don't care how many hours someone has there are still things they'll learn from instructing. Also if you want to be a shear badass just fly 135 freight single pilot 
02-16-2008, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 145Driver
What would you think if you knew your doctor had found the quickest and easiest way through med school?
02-16-2008, 04:26 PM
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To answer the original post, it really depends...there are at least 5 regional airlines hiring with wet ink on the multi. That being said, the quickest way to get it done, as stated above, is to go to a well staffed/maitained FBO. Something else to take into consideration is weather year round. I recomend finding somewhere down south where you get the most flying days out of the year...
To everyone else bashing the guy for not wanting to instruct, let me be the first to welcome you to the new era of aviation...you can either accept it or change careers, but I can honestly tell you that complaining won't change a thing...once again welcome to the new regional airline industry.
To everyone else bashing the guy for not wanting to instruct, let me be the first to welcome you to the new era of aviation...you can either accept it or change careers, but I can honestly tell you that complaining won't change a thing...once again welcome to the new regional airline industry.
02-16-2008, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by waflyboy
Yeah but do they have a union?
Don't like your current computer gig? Well, quit and go to work at some other computer job. Usually for more money, better location, better bennies. Very little, if any sacrifice for making a lateral move. What a freaking concept.
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