Fantastic. Thank you for the info, I'm looking forward to pursuing it. I've done CTS back in my 135 days so I have no illusions of brevity...

On the online FO job posting, stated minimums are simply ATP. How much simulator time will they allow as part of the 50 multi hours required? I know the regionals are maxing it out at 25 hours.

By the time I’d be applying I’d have about 2000 TT, with ~1000 TPIC and ~1000 135 experience, but all in PC-12s. At the moment I’m only sitting on 24 hours of Seminole time and realistically by the time I could apply I’d have a little Aztec time on top of that.

Get as much as you can in an airplane. Maybe someone else who went through can chime in, but as I don’t think they get anywhere near the max 25 hr credit in the sim if they can avoid it.

I’m not there, but I was told directly that 300 multi turbine or 500 multi piston hours are the absolute lower limits for any FO applicants, insurance drives this.

I’m not a GAMA pilot, just a casual reader who understands reason and logic. The statement above is unreasonable and illogical.

One cannot prove a negative: “Prove you are NOT a murderer.” It’s impossible.

That someone has never been violated doesn’t mean they will never be, of course, but it’s solid evidence they’ve never been violated. It’s reasonable to infer a poor safety culture would be reflected in violations.

An accusation is not an opinion. And the party making an accusation has the burden of substantiating it; if they cannot, it deserves to be ignored.

This is just common sense. But alas that is often uncommon...

Oh pay no attention to Brody comments. He has a personal problem with Gama. He’s a leftists scam artist. He’s never wrong and will be mad at the world forever. We gave him every opportunity in the world to inform the world of what happened to him. He thinks Gama has agents following him around trying to destroy him. We all have work for bad companies before. It’s fair to bash companies but one must give a little facts on what happen to be taken seriously.

I’ve been thinking about applying for a FO position with WU. I certainly meet the mins (have an ATP and 500 multi-jet). I just wanted to get some feedback from the current pilots on something a little more subjective. How do you all like flying the King Air 350 on an eight day stretch? Are you counting the days until you are upgraded to the jet fleet, or are you enjoying it?

I think the King Air 350 looks like it would be a very fun airplane. I have some experience in the Pilatus PC-12 and really enjoyed it. A buddy of mine who is in jets recently remarked to me that flying a King Air that much (on an eight day schedule) would be awful (as compared to working in jets). I know you’re cruising lower and dealing with more weather, but that doesn’t really bother me. My eventual goal is not the major airlines, which is also why I don’t mind going from jets to props. Any thoughts on how you all do or don’t like the airplane? Thanks very much.

I personally love to fly the king air and enjoy my 8 days flying it. Most of my colleagues would agree with me. Don’t apply if you have shiny new jet syndrome, we are a company that flies king airs with a few jets in the mix...not the other way around. Guys are regularly moving to the jets but it’ll take a year or two at least.

I don’t work for Gamma and don’t fly for 8 days in a row; but I came from Marine tactical air and my organization flies King Air 309s, L60s, and Challenger 601/04/05s. I’ve been asked to transition to all of them and I have chosen to stay in the King Air.

I love it!

Busdriver91 and USMCFLYR... thanks for your responses. I think I would really like the King Air as well, but it’s great to hear about the airplane from pilots currently flying it for a living.

Would the company allow San Diego as a base / gateway airport? I imagine it would just make days one and eight a little rougher on me, but I really like Southern CA. I currently live in the Mid-Atlantic area. Just considering the move west. Thanks again.