Currently, a first-year Bro FO would most certainly make more than his Jet-counterpart...lower staffing, 120-hr Block/month, and less reserve means for great paychecks!

But even on the Jet-side, I don't think upper 20's is too difficult in the first twelve months. I'm in line to do about that much (only because the girlfriend as of late has decided I can't work as much LoL)

 

RAH=$400 per week tax free

 

You can always supplement your income. Gemini Cargo has a DC-10 captain, I'm not kidding on this either, that's an Elvis impersonator. He made more doing that than he did as a junior FO!

 

If only I had some talent like that...hell...I can't even fly Airplanes good

 

I'm sure you can fly airplanes plenty good. You're just afraid of the automation

For what its worth, got to fly a full procedure VOR-DME approach in Mexico last week complete with course reversal and step downs. But I wussed out and used the FD so I could free up some brain bytes to look at the big ass freaking VOLCANOES! You should check out Oaxaca, Mexico. Bet you would think you died and gone to heaven.

 

How'd you find that out? Try to hire him for your wedding or something?

 

I don't think I would have lived through that - way too exciting!!

I lucked out today and got to depart Rwy 28 in HDN (uncontrolled woohoo) today...low overcast so had to fly the published ODP...no FD and no white-needles...flew direct CHE VOR, teardrop (should have done a parallel) entry to climb to 10,000 for on course...and since I was green anyway, I just shot the arrival into DEN old-school too.

Made an "oops" on the procedure turn though - flew outbound at 200 KIAS in the climb, but as we turned inbound, we also broke 10K, so I cranked her over to 250 KIAS...would have worked out great, but with the tail-wind and the addt'l airspeed we didn't quite intercept the inbound course as smoothly as I would have liked...never something I would have thought about the last time I shot a hold (over a year ago in a Seminole ). Well - ya live and ya learn I suppose!

But wow it felt good to use the brain to fly the plane for the first time in months and months! And then I had to pound her in hard just to bring myself back down LoL

 

If he was available I'd have to consider it. Just from a guy that works there.

 

Thanks for all the replies gents. I'm constantly evaluating what the best course of action for my family and me is post Army. With family in Portland and Denver and me being from Montana SkyWest is up there on the list.

I'll probably still have to get a side jot at Starbucks or Barnes and Noble to make the ends meet, but it is a small price to pay to continue flying and to not settle for some office managment job through a headhunter no matter how much they'd be willing to pay a former officer.

 

Possibly $30K, but you'd have to get lucky on a few counts...

A nice 5 week break between sim and IOE will cost you.

Also if SKW remains heavily staffed there will be little to no open time to pick up, meaning that you will probably be stuck with whatever line you get...probably 90 hour average for the jet (not sure about the bro but obviously higher). With workrules, you might credit 95 hours on a line that originally was built at 90 hours.