Per their website...

Pilots » SkyWest Airlines

If you're in the ballpark but not quite there, go ahead and apply anyway.

You said two different things. I was just wondering if I heard you correctly.

Thanks much for the replies. I guess what has me confused is why they would accept my quals three months ago but not now? Also, they own expressjet which accepts all my helo time and SKW doesn't, there the same company and if anything, expressjet is flying much more IFR on the east than SKW out here. Seems like the quals would be the other way around if different at all. It is what it is, and I completely accept it. They can do anything they want. ALLLL Good!

:)

The website says what it says. There is anecdotal evidence that they sometimes dip below their published mins.

The two airlines are owned by the same company, but they are two separate airlines with different SOPs, cultures, and service geography.

IFR is easy, especially in the east where things are relatively flat. Helo IFR experience is GTG.

IMO the concern is landing skills and low-level aircraft handling skills, particularly the second-nature ability that come with doing a lot of them. SKW operates to small fields with extremely constrained geography, high winds, and potential ice/contamination...that's probably driven the culture to value stick-and-rudder skills as much as IFR. Helo stick and rudder is not the same.

No. Helo stick and rudder is harder. A lot more "gotchas" that can get you in my experience.

I'd much rather take an E-2 aboard ship or into a short field in bad weather, than take a helo aboard a frigate in high sea states.

Oook, Thanks.. Did the challenges of potential ice/contamination increase between this month and two months ago when I was qualified?

Goodspeed,

I am not a member of Flight Level Jobs, so I couldn't read the entire ad.

Goodspeed,

Job Details
Company: Air Methods
Address: Hornell, NY , , New York
Website: http://
Contact Person: Human Resources
Tel:

Job Title: Fixed Wing Aircraft Position ($7500 Sign On Bonus)
Description
General Requirements: • Commercial & Instrument license (for category and class of aircraft) • ATP rating in category meets this requirement. • First OR Second Class Medical certificate required. • Pilots must have flown in category within the previous 12 months Flight Hours (Flight time must be verified through reliable documentation) Visual Flight Rules (VFR) Program: • 2000 total flight hours with minimum of 1500 flight hours in category • 1000 hours PIC in category • 500 hours of rotor wing turbine time • 200 hours of cross-country flight time, at least 50 hours of which were at night • 100 hours unaided night as PIC • 50 hours total actual or hood instrument time in flight and in category (simulator time does not count) Instrument Flight rules (IFR) Program: • 2500 total flight hours with a minimum of 2000 hours in category • 1000 hours PIC in category • 500 hours of cross-country flight time, 100 hours of night flight time • 75 hours of actual or simulated instrument time in category and at least 50 hours which were in flight in an aircraft including 20 hours in actual instrument conditions in category For Fixed Wing Programs (in addition to IFR requirements): • 100 hours of flight in actual instrument conditions in category and 300 hours of turbo prop experience Source: company website
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Hope that helps

If those guys went to your headquarters recruiting, half the executive staff would be Mesa FO's. Let's keep it real.