Vision input (focus on Dornier 328)
11-18-2010 | 01:14 AM
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At the end of the day, I would have to pay my own way to LAS (funds are low) to interview. Pay for training...which I have whole-heartedly preached against since I was a little 'ol CFI, and I would have to move to AEX or GFT to make $25k on the 737. Morally it is wrong, and financially, I can't make it make any sense.
No thanks.
11-18-2010 | 04:14 AM
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11-19-2010 | 06:12 PM
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From: Regional Airline Captain
I used to live in Vegas around 1999.
Never heard a good thing about Vision. That was back when your choices to get out of CFI'ing (which is what I was doing @ North Las Vegas airport) were: Vision and Scenic. Scenic was viewed as the better route to get some turbine time and then scram for a "decent" (to use the word loosely) commuter like Skywest, Horizon, etc.
Not sure how the situation is now (or what yours is). But you could always work for them, log a few hundred SIC turbine time, then scram for another regional. Not sure if that's the kind of place you would be able to hang out in long enough to upgrade then get 1000+ PIC turbine to apply to a major. But it's probably better than CFI'ing to use as an interview getter at a Skywest type place.
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Never heard a good thing about Vision. That was back when your choices to get out of CFI'ing (which is what I was doing @ North Las Vegas airport) were: Vision and Scenic. Scenic was viewed as the better route to get some turbine time and then scram for a "decent" (to use the word loosely) commuter like Skywest, Horizon, etc.
Not sure how the situation is now (or what yours is). But you could always work for them, log a few hundred SIC turbine time, then scram for another regional. Not sure if that's the kind of place you would be able to hang out in long enough to upgrade then get 1000+ PIC turbine to apply to a major. But it's probably better than CFI'ing to use as an interview getter at a Skywest type place.
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11-20-2010 | 06:55 AM
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From: Big...So Big
They wanted to interview me for 737FO. I am a furloughed legacy guy. It took me some real soul searching as well. Why? I have been out of work for two years, and the possibility of a flying job had all but vanished because I am not current. However, I was thrilled to get a call.
At the end of the day, I would have to pay my own way to LAS (funds are low) to interview. Pay for training...which I have whole-heartedly preached against since I was a little 'ol CFI, and I would have to move to AEX or GFT to make $25k on the 737. Morally it is wrong, and financially, I can't make it make any sense.
No thanks.
At the end of the day, I would have to pay my own way to LAS (funds are low) to interview. Pay for training...which I have whole-heartedly preached against since I was a little 'ol CFI, and I would have to move to AEX or GFT to make $25k on the 737. Morally it is wrong, and financially, I can't make it make any sense.
No thanks.
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