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You probably tell people that you fly for United and leave off the express part.

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Originally Posted by cynical

You probably tell people that you fly for United and leave off the express part.

No, I wouldn't wish UAL on my worst enemy. It's USAirways.;)

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Originally Posted by cynical

If that makes you feel better about yourself.

No, but the fact that I won't be getting furloughed anytime soon does:D

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Originally Posted by Browntail

Great, another quality commuter pilot.

WOW thats awsome that you know what kinda pilot somebody is after hearing one sentence. I never said anything about his flying you should be on a hiring bored...........i cant wait to see how you fit in with CRM, but start with the small stuff first like your drivers license. Ha get it off your chest now, becuase if you do make it to the airlines, you wont be able to hid behind your monitor, your captain will put you in your place really fast!!!!!
no more waste of my time, ive given my 2cents about brownstain

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Originally Posted by Browntail

Great, another quality commuter pilot.

Actually, he was. Learned alot, and studied. Didn't take anything for granted. Turned out to be a good captain.

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Originally Posted by cloudkicker1981

Dude what makes you say that, have you seen the seniority list compared to the number of quailifed pilots ready to upgrade. In my recurrent ground last month the #1 ***** was guys who were here for a year and the seniorty compared to teh number of upgrades a month was going to be another 6 months before they seen the left side. These guys all in there 2-3000 hr range. Upgrades are in the 190 number for senority and ive been here a year and iM above 220. If anything i would completly say the opposite, that colgan actually wants low time guys so that way there not going anywhere for a year...

The problem is not now. There are enough guys with the right times to meet the insurance mins and keep the upgrade committee happy. The problem will be 12 - 18 months down the road. This company is not done expanding by any means. What HR (CC, jr) specifically is worried about is hiring a large group of 500 - 600 hour pilots now which means in 12 - 18 months they only have 1300 - 1600 hours, to low for upgrade. If you're going to upgrade pilots in a 18 months it's better if the mix includes some 1000 hour guys initially.

The problem the company has also found with low time guys is that type of guy has a tendency not to stick around. He's quickly figures out it's going to be close to two years before upgrade. So he gets 400 - 500 of turbine and runs off to a jet. Then we're stuck with training a new pilot ($$). And before you jump on the second year FO pay scale, yes they know it's a problem.

thanks for the info, I'm just gonna continue to build and build, thx

Does Colgan have any scheduled class dates for the next couple months?
What are the dates?

Thanks.