I appreciate all the comments here. I will be finishing a multi-engine program in the next month or so and have been curious about PSA. They have a base in CLT and this is just up the road from home. It would be much easier to have my family stay where they are and me commute from CLT. That's only if I am able to get a job once finishing my program, otherwise i will probably just try to find a job instructing locally

Again, not trying to start a debate about low time pilots and 3 month zero to hero with jet certification jumping into regional seats. I am just trying to make a living doing something I love.

A thought about those thinking about making a comment about my posts...I am 33, I have never made more than $35,000 a year, we have made it this far with this little doing things we/I hate. I will work as a pilot for 15,000-25,000 a year for my first two or three years if I have to because in this time, in this market, this is how i will pay my dues...and if i do not get a job at a regional then i will pay my dues and earn my time by instructing, forest patrol, whatever it takes and i will deliver pizzas or dig ditches to get to that next pilot position.

123bt will taxi to the active and hold short.....Waiting for release!

 

To answer a few more of your questions... Yeah we have a CLT base but its a couple month wait to get it the same with reserve, i spent two months on reserve but im sure with the slowing in hiring the wait will increase, but we are upgrading still quite a bit so once youre in things are moving along

 

I walked in a resume to director of training last week. The scoop is that theyre trying to get a few more captains upgraded and so ground school has slowed a little bit meaning there are already currently enough hired and the next interview date would likely be around the end of may or so. He said my friend would def. be interviewed and that he would get a call as soon as they had a date set for the next interviews. I think the current competitive mins are something like 600/100 or somewhere around there. I was hired in November with right under 1000 tt and 12 multi. Pay is what it is, currently for me starting class in December and still currently on reserve with 8 people ahead of me till I hold a line. Im sure now with the slowing of hiring, reserve will only be longer.

 

Appreciate the info ksatflyer...I don't mind sitting reserve, again paying my dues in some form or another. I just think that, like you said, with everything slowing down right now that I would be lucky to even get an interview much less a job.

Thanks again

 

where are u based at?

 

Im Dayton Based, currently have 8 in front of me for a Dayton line and 28 in front of me for a knoxville line I think it was. As for Charlotte, god knows how many people in front of me.