Originally Posted by Convairator

you have a doctorate and want to become a regional airline pilot?!? I know you hear this all too often on these forums, but my sincere advice for you, don't do it!
With two months of training figured into to your first year pay, you will make less than 23k your first year. 5 year regional upgrade, you are six years from breaking 40,000/year.

Too many pilots go onto APC and look at wages of Delta/Fedex/AA captains, and think, wow, pilots do make alot of money. However, most people are not fedex captains. It will take you years to realize anything close to these wages, while plugging away at the regionals making extremely low pay.
I would strongly encourage you to not enter the regional airline industry.

* many who choose to enter love saying that classic line, 'my buddies are sitting in cubicles rotting while im flying this sweet fast jet all over the country'.

You are flying this awesome fast jet for minimum wage, spending christmas, thanksgiving, new years eve, and your birthday in the comfort inn Wichita. But hey, there is a Walmart within walking distance, and tomorow you get to sit hot reserve in ord, so the future is looking bright.

Originally Posted by HIREME

Could be that they view your advanced degree as a negative. They will spend a lot of $$ training you and if they consider you a risk to leave when you are weighed against an guy w/ an aviation bachelors /masters...well, who would you pick? I do think you'll eventually get there as the pool dwindles, but you're outside the norm for applicants and anything outside the norm right now is probably a risk to them. Keep plugging away and find some way to fly more frequently to show that you are committed to the profession.
To me, if I am on the interview team, I'd view your resume as someone who is sticking a line in the water but not committed to fishing. I might interview you if I had extra spots. You can't do anything about the PHD and it's a great accomplishment anyway, but bring your time in the last 12 months up to at leas the 300-500 range.

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

Great. Another career changer wanting to play airline pilot. I bet you would do the job for free.

Originally Posted by Mach Crit

I absolutely get that regarding the degree, but I wonder how many applicants these days are actually aviation-degreed versus high school grads who've earned their ratings at their local flight school. In any case, my thinking had been that they would look at it as a gauge for potential, or lack thereof, to wash out of training. I didn't think of it from your standpoint, that I could be viewed as someone who may cut and run early on. I guess they won't know that until they talk to me about it.

Until there's some movement, though, I keep humping it with my current business and, when I can, I pick up a trip here and there. If I really focused on it, I could get 50+ hours/mo. of TPIC. Similarly, I own a 172 and I could spend my days burning the wings off of it, but I have it on leaseback to a flight school instead.

Again, thanks for the feedback. I appreciate everyone's perspectives - even the ones who criticize.

Originally Posted by Stryker

Every time you update something (I.e. flight time) the employers get the update. Ignore Eagle's 90 day wait as they have brought guys in a week later after getting sent home from an interview

Originally Posted by Boomer

Are you saying that Eagle interviewed a guy, turned him down, and a week later asked him to come in to interview again?

And this was not a clerical error or something goofy?

Originally Posted by DirectTo

A friend of mine who went through a few weeks ago in the interview said that another guy there with him had interviewed the week prior, got sent home because of a paperwork issue, and given another interview the following week.

I'm guessing if they're a relatively solid candidate in Eagle's eyes that they're starting to bend on minor paperwork errors.