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Old 03-11-2014 | 06:42 PM
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Don't be deceived. They are all desperate. Some more than others and some sweating bullets. If you are close to the mins, apply and interview. Go to wwww.aviationinterviews.com and study up. Read a book or two and get your first interview suit and tie and enjoy the ride.
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Old 03-11-2014 | 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by rcfd13
Companies doing that probably aren't the ones you want to be working for. There's a reason they're desperate.
What's so bad about that? Get the interview and everything out of the way so you can just hit 1500 and schedule a class right away. Everybody is hiring, I don't see the issue with expediting the process by interviewing a couple hundred hours in advance. Although receiving an email with a class date without even doing a phone interview is a bit strange...
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Old 03-11-2014 | 07:20 PM
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At some point multi engine time won't even be required outside of the few hours to get the rating.
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Old 03-11-2014 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by tom11011
At some point multi engine time won't even be required outside of the few hours to get the rating.
True, but for all but a few, we aren't there yet. Still worth sorting out.
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Old 03-11-2014 | 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Grrrr
What's so bad about that? Get the interview and everything out of the way so you can just hit 1500 and schedule a class right away. Everybody is hiring, I don't see the issue with expediting the process by interviewing a couple hundred hours in advance. Although receiving an email with a class date without even doing a phone interview is a bit strange...
I never said that it was a bad idea to interview at soon as you could. I said that companies that are offering phone interviews and giving people conditional class dates before they even meet the mins are probably not places you want to be working. These are the first places to get desperate meaning these are the places that have the worst working conditions. No one wants to go there so they offer 1,000 hour pilots conditional class dates to sucker them in.
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Old 03-11-2014 | 08:45 PM
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Agreed. When they start repeatedly calling and emailing job offers it definitely raises some red flags. Sadly that strategy works on a lot of ppl I think. I have friends that went to certain airlines just bc the had COEs and it was easy.
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Old 03-11-2014 | 09:06 PM
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I understand the reasoning behind wanting to find out who hires at bare minimums...but maybe those guys should be looking at the individual threads to see what kind of places they are before they either: sign a TRA, move or just spend time with generally unhappy people at the beginning of their professional career.

I may be wrong in thinking this way, but spend more time researching the companies than trolling for the restricted ATP carriers...

Just my .02

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Old 03-12-2014 | 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by flyingmau5
Actually, the ones that are desperate have sign-on bonuses.
Is eagle really desperate? If they were desperate wouldn't they relax the training a little bit and try to get someone through rather than giving them a checkride in 8 sims? Maybe its an eagle thing and they don't want to change. The few pilots i know at eagle said the training was extremely tough but thorough compared to other regionals.
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Old 03-12-2014 | 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by tom11011
At some point multi engine time won't even be required outside of the few hours to get the rating.
How? 50 multi is mandatory for insurance isn't it?
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Old 03-12-2014 | 01:35 AM
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What's so bad about that? Get the interview and everything out of the way so you can just hit 1500 and schedule a class right away. Everybody is hiring, I don't see the issue with expediting the process by interviewing a couple hundred hours in advance. Although receiving an email with a class date without even doing a phone interview is a bit strange...
let me guess, Mesa Airlines?
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