if you say so.

When on reserve at my first airline, Crew Tracking would call the senior crew member on the list and ask if he wanted to fly. That continued until someone accepted or the junior guy was forced to take the shift. I don't know if that was company policy but that's the way it worked.

I don't have SJS...I flew the BE1900 heavy at the world's worst regional airline. Anything is a shiny jet compared to that. Honestly, though, it was some of the funnest flying I've ever done...no autopilot!

I just want a good quality of life and the company, base and aircraft that will give that to me.

If the ATR will be off property in two years then those pilots will be put in a displacement bid, right? They can bump junior pilots in other equipment at any base. Please be gentle, it's been a few years since I had to know how this worked.

As far as the supposed 700 pilots hired in 2012, who knows what will happen, but it sounds good. I could always go to GoJet and upgrade next Thursday. But, I do know that getting "stuck" at a regional like AE is better than 90% of the other operators. Timing is everything in the airline biz. If movement stops at Eagle then I've screwed the pooch and given up a solid career with awesome retirement to sit as a Regional FO till I'm a grandpa!

OK...here's a stupid FNG question. What is the ATP Regional Jet Training program? I read on line that it gets you some kind of RJ experience that AE wants. Is this program worth the investment before an interview for a guy who's been out 10 years?

ATP has/had a 2 day RJ program for Eagle. It was 2 days and $995. About 10 hours of RJ sim time with an instructor. I was out of the loop for a while and did that program and it was money well spent. Really helped get me up to speed with a glass panel, autopilot, etc and made my sim life much easier than it would have been.

Real level D sim time?

No it's a CRJ 200 Frasca, and please don't do it. Eagle will send you to the Rj course (and pay for it) if they need you to take it. But it sounds like you have more than the required hrs, low time guys are the ones that go to the RJ course... ATP says that you can interview with Eagle with 500/100 if you complete their RJ program this was an agreement that ATP and Eagle entered into earlier in the year. Since this agreement Eagle has lowered their mins to 500/50. If you are between 500/50 & 800/100 and pass the interview you will be required to attend an RJ course hosted by ATP at Eagles expense (you will have to sign a 2 year contract with Eagle). Now if you go to the ATP website this is not shown in this matter for obvious reasons. They advertise allot of people completing the RJ course and immediately getting hired by Eagle, but these are the people who Eagle send there and after sucefull completion of the course they are offered a class date.

So eagle is paying ATP by sending the new hires between 500-800TT to the RJ program because of the agreement they had before lowering the mins. Let's see how long it would last!

Anyone have the class breakdown for 10/24 class?

15 Dallas ERJ
10 LGA ERJ
7 JFK ERJ
6 ORD ERJ
4 ORD CRJ
3 LGA CRJ
2 SJU ATR

One question, I almost always see that ATR numbers are lowest in pretty much every class.
Is it because there are only so many vacancies available or is it because ATR gets picked as a last resort.

Eagle only has a handful of ATR's compared to 200 plus jets.