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IFly17 05-28-2008 12:15 PM
Luke. You are the only one I know who bought an RJ type.

Flex81 05-28-2008 03:58 PM
Lakes is what it is. I worked there and if I had to do it all over again I would work there again in a heartbeat. If F9 doesn't work out, I might just get my wish;)

HEALTH!

IslanderDriver 05-28-2008 05:09 PM
Originally Posted by BURflyer (Post 392105)
It's undeniable that flying a prop gets you the quickest upgrade and gives you some credibility in that you have good flying experience especially with no autopilot and GPS. However from what I saw the CAs at my previous airline weren't having any luck with the better majors/legacies out there citing not enough experience on jet/advanced airplanes. The only guys that made it to top tier airlines like CAL had a few thousand of pic and were instructors. I guess in the last few years there has been a rise in regional jet CAs applying though it has been tougher market for prop guys.
I personally know people at CAL that had only a few hundred hours of jet time and whatever the PIC time mins were/are (not in a jet mind you...or turbine...just PIC time) get hired.

One would think that a guy flying the Mighty Beech with 500 hours of PIC had WAY more experience that someone with 500 hours of jet FO time... But then again, life isn't fair.

Some of those CAL people won't see jet PIC time till it is in a 737...but I digress.

The guys I flew with at XJT back when we had the Beech always liked hand flying. Old habits die hard...

kansas 05-29-2008 06:49 AM
Originally Posted by Flex81 (Post 392638)
HEALTH!
Man, the fridge just doesn't look the same anymore without about 6 dozen eggs in it.

ImEbee 05-29-2008 09:08 AM
Originally Posted by belliott (Post 391432)
Why the high washout rate? They are in constant need of pilots and yet they wash 7 of 8/ 2 of 3 out of training... sounds not so good to me. I will be staying far far away...
Perhaps the difference is we don't relax our standards in a tight market. Unfortunatly I believe its a factor of low time new hires.

Originally Posted by BURflyer (Post 392105)
It's undeniable that flying a prop gets you the quickest upgrade and gives you some credibility in that you have good flying experience especially with no autopilot and GPS. However from what I saw the CAs at my previous airline weren't having any luck with the better majors/legacies out there citing not enough experience on jet/advanced airplanes. The only guys that made it to top tier airlines like CAL had a few thousand of pic and were instructors. I guess in the last few years there has been a rise in regional jet CAs applying though it has been tougher market for prop guys.
Jet and "advanced" experience has got to be one of the biggest fallacies in this industry. No offense to RJ drivers but if you can teach a 500hr CFI to fly a jet, I'm pretty sure that I can figure it out too.:cool:

Radials Rule 05-29-2008 11:12 AM
Originally Posted by ImEbee (Post 392991)

Jet and "advanced" experience has got to be one of the biggest fallacies in this industry. No offense to RJ drivers but if you can teach a 500hr CFI to fly a jet, I'm pretty sure that I can figure it out too.:cool:
I agree, glass/jet time is overrated. After several hundred hours of turboprop PIC under your belt, the transition to a jet is a piece of cake. As for the bells and whistles, after a half hour or so of punch and pray, one gets enough of the basics to work it for a flight. It is just as easy, if not a little easier, to learn Collins AMS 5000 as a Trimble 2000.


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