Best Regional for living in Greenville, SC
09-04-2016 | 11:52 AM
#11
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Wow, you must have the worst luck ever...I live around GSP and has never taken more than hour forty to get to CLT at the worst...
09-04-2016 | 12:59 PM
#12
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But ASA upgrade is 7 years. Total 7 year compensation at PSA would be better..
09-04-2016 | 05:40 PM
#14
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Apparently you've never heard of Waze...I can't count how many times it's auto-rerouted me around major backups along that stretch. Once you get into the Gastonia area it's a little harder, but as someone else mentioned I've never come close to 2 hours total drive. 1:45 is usually the worst I get. As long as it's not morning rush hour I've never had any recurring issues, just the random normal accident every couple of months or so.
09-04-2016 | 05:58 PM
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09-04-2016 | 09:38 PM
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How's the drive to RDU?
Trans States and gojetz have bases there. I can't speak for GoJet, but RDU is fairly junior at TSA. You should be able to get it shortly after training.
Here's my theory on this: they don't want to pull too many pilots out of the regionals and kill off their feed... so they skim the higher-time (high time being relative) military pilots off the top of applicant pool, (the ones that would be more likely to find jobs flying cargo, dod contract work, work for an LCC, etc, than go to a regional). The mil pilots that are too low time to make the cut to to a regional. Once settled in at a regional, they'll end up in the pool with all the other regional pilots where they won't want to take too many too quickly to prevent choking their feed.
Trans States and gojetz have bases there. I can't speak for GoJet, but RDU is fairly junior at TSA. You should be able to get it shortly after training.
Here's my theory on this: they don't want to pull too many pilots out of the regionals and kill off their feed... so they skim the higher-time (high time being relative) military pilots off the top of applicant pool, (the ones that would be more likely to find jobs flying cargo, dod contract work, work for an LCC, etc, than go to a regional). The mil pilots that are too low time to make the cut to to a regional. Once settled in at a regional, they'll end up in the pool with all the other regional pilots where they won't want to take too many too quickly to prevent choking their feed.
09-05-2016 | 01:15 AM
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From: Professional Eugoogoolizer at the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good
How's the drive to RDU?
Trans States and gojetz have bases there. I can't speak for GoJet, but RDU is fairly junior at TSA. You should be able to get it shortly after training.
Here's my theory on this: they don't want to pull too many pilots out of the regionals and kill off their feed... so they skim the higher-time (high time being relative) military pilots off the top of applicant pool, (the ones that would be more likely to find jobs flying cargo, dod contract work, work for an LCC, etc, than go to a regional). The mil pilots that are too low time to make the cut to to a regional. Once settled in at a regional, they'll end up in the pool with all the other regional pilots where they won't want to take too many too quickly to prevent choking their feed.
Trans States and gojetz have bases there. I can't speak for GoJet, but RDU is fairly junior at TSA. You should be able to get it shortly after training.
Here's my theory on this: they don't want to pull too many pilots out of the regionals and kill off their feed... so they skim the higher-time (high time being relative) military pilots off the top of applicant pool, (the ones that would be more likely to find jobs flying cargo, dod contract work, work for an LCC, etc, than go to a regional). The mil pilots that are too low time to make the cut to to a regional. Once settled in at a regional, they'll end up in the pool with all the other regional pilots where they won't want to take too many too quickly to prevent choking their feed.
My theory is the companies hiring committee is now run by hr and not by pilots, of which many of those pilots are not military. Therefore the preference of military is waning a bit. Not saying it's not there, but just not what it used to be.
09-05-2016 | 09:27 AM
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Who knows.. I fly with a freaking b52 guy and he can't even get a job interview. We have c130 guys that are just here.. They are applying.. The one guy that just got picked up at delta... No military, only a year as a captain.. He was the first person to get picked up from delta at my company..
My theory is the companies hiring committee is now run by hr and not by pilots, of which many of those pilots are not military. Therefore the preference of military is waning a bit. Not saying it's not there, but just not what it used to be.
My theory is the companies hiring committee is now run by hr and not by pilots, of which many of those pilots are not military. Therefore the preference of military is waning a bit. Not saying it's not there, but just not what it used to be.
But you are spot on about these hr folks doing the hiring. At least with people at my airline, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to who gets the call. We have senior captains and check airman that have done multiple job fairs and have 8000tt that can't get the call, then you see an FO with less than 3000tt get the call., but they had a Masters degree with a high gpa
... Doesn't make sense.
09-05-2016 | 10:02 AM
#20
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I wouldn't say worst luck ever. I'm at the southern most tip of Grenville so it's already an 1:45 or so on a good day. The 4 hour drives aren't common, but it does happen occasionally and only when I really need to get home. There's a fella named Murphy who wrote a law about it.
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