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03-24-2010 | 03:49 AM
#51
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Sorry, but a turbine is not a turbine. There is a distinct difference between an RJ Capt. and a 172-with-a-whine Capt. It's not about about the engine you know...
03-24-2010 | 07:11 AM
#52
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If it was more like a "seeeeeeeeee-yaaaaaaaa", then it is an old Mesaba - DTW controller salutation on the handoff to departure. Some of those controllers are really good at it too, but never used it with anyone else, that I ever heard. Maybe the controller moved.
03-24-2010 | 07:56 AM
#53
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All I can say is that I've been working at PW for a year and a half and it's not nearly at bad as everyone is making it out to be. I startd out as an SIC and now work as a captain. Everyone is paid a salary and it is ample to live on in Hawaii. I personally think the time built here is much more valuable than doing the whole CFI thing... it's an airline, and turbine time. I've had pleanty of friends here that have gone on to good charter jobs, and some to other airlines. Sure, it's not someplace that I want to work indefinately but the flight time I've build here is INCREDIBLE! A lot more fun than most flying jobs, and my pay as a captain is over $30,000 per year with bonusus every 6 mo. Sure sounds like a lot of people who know nothing about this company enjoy talking out their asses!
Anybody considering working for this company.....DON'T!! I watched to many people get fired for nothing. They pencil whip MX inspections, force you to fly in weather conditions not suitable for the Caravan (ask FSU pilot). One CA had smoke in the cockpit, brought it back, told the chief pilot, the next day got smoke in the cockpit again...MX never looked at it. Working here is like handing your certificate to the FAA. Oh and the "CEO" as they call him, is 24 years old and has maybe 1000 hours of flight time and is as dumb as a rock. He was a former ramper at Horizon, hows that for experience in running a company. PM me with any questions. Many law suits pending against them right now too, by former employees.
03-24-2010 | 09:02 AM
#54
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How many interviews have you been invited to? I'm not trying to pick on you but the interviewers go through the logbook and ask the validity of your flight time.
Ex. You're an SIC in a 208, you have 1000TT and 900 of it SIC. How do you justify that? I know you can use an SIC in leu of an autopilot but thats just for IFR... So, I would take a look and see if you had IMC time to equal the SIC hrs because after all you dont need an SIC in VFR conditions.
03-24-2010 | 01:06 PM
#55
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I was offered 4 jobs out of the 5 times I interviewed for a flying position. I worked as an sic in the caravan to meet the VCR 135 mins then hired to fly the canyons, and eventually on at the regionals. No problems from the interviewers regarding flight times.
03-24-2010 | 01:11 PM
#56
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03-24-2010 | 02:30 PM
#57
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I gotta say... I've seen more on one occasion where an SIC in a Single pilot certified airplane get shown the door for having nothing more than all SIC time in say a Caravan (for this example).
How many interviews have you been invited to? I'm not trying to pick on you but the interviewers go through the logbook and ask the validity of your flight time.
Ex. You're an SIC in a 208, you have 1000TT and 900 of it SIC. How do you justify that? I know you can use an SIC in leu of an autopilot but thats just for IFR... So, I would take a look and see if you had IMC time to equal the SIC hrs because after all you dont need an SIC in VFR conditions.
How many interviews have you been invited to? I'm not trying to pick on you but the interviewers go through the logbook and ask the validity of your flight time.
Ex. You're an SIC in a 208, you have 1000TT and 900 of it SIC. How do you justify that? I know you can use an SIC in leu of an autopilot but thats just for IFR... So, I would take a look and see if you had IMC time to equal the SIC hrs because after all you dont need an SIC in VFR conditions.
03-24-2010 | 10:32 PM
#59
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Joined: Aug 2007
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20 bucks says by now you have been fired or quit or violated.
Anybody considering working for this company.....DON'T!! I watched to many people get fired for nothing. They pencil whip MX inspections, force you to fly in weather conditions not suitable for the Caravan (ask FSU pilot). One CA had smoke in the cockpit, brought it back, told the chief pilot, the next day got smoke in the cockpit again...MX never looked at it. Working here is like handing your certificate to the FAA. Oh and the "CEO" as they call him, is 24 years old and has maybe 1000 hours of flight time and is as dumb as a rock. He was a former ramper at Horizon, hows that for experience in running a company. PM me with any questions. Many law suits pending against them right now too, by former employees.
Anybody considering working for this company.....DON'T!! I watched to many people get fired for nothing. They pencil whip MX inspections, force you to fly in weather conditions not suitable for the Caravan (ask FSU pilot). One CA had smoke in the cockpit, brought it back, told the chief pilot, the next day got smoke in the cockpit again...MX never looked at it. Working here is like handing your certificate to the FAA. Oh and the "CEO" as they call him, is 24 years old and has maybe 1000 hours of flight time and is as dumb as a rock. He was a former ramper at Horizon, hows that for experience in running a company. PM me with any questions. Many law suits pending against them right now too, by former employees.
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