I have 1300 hours and will potentially be applying for an F.O. position in the future. I am currently employeed and will retire in July which is 6 months away. I know most people apply around the 1350 range and they will be ready soon after that. I dont want to apply now just for them to say i'm not ready soon enough and to apply again 6 months later. I will be at ATP minimums in March weather dependant. I have spoken to a recruiter but they cant seem to answer this question for me. Is there a certain minimum time they want you to be ready before you apply. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Reading through recent interview reports on aviationinterviews.com, pilots are getting interviews under 1300 hours. I saw one with a job offer reported and they had 1175TT/900PIC/60ME. If Republic is where you want to be, put your app in now. They're clearly making offers to keep the pipeline flowing. If you don't have it already, you would want to have at least 25ME. You'll build the other 25 in training in a level D FFS that counts towards the ATP 50ME minimum.

Assuming you've been purusing the aviation forums, you're aware of the FO new hire contract right?

Until Republic changes their employment contract or it gets overturned by the courts... you shouldn't bother (Only exceptions are living in a base only served by Republic and being okay with missing the hiring wave and being stuck at Republic for a large portion of your career).

-instead you should continue instructing in a 172. Eventually jobs will start up again (maybe in a year or to?) and you'll be much more competitive with 2000-3000 hours of CFI'ing than 1000+ turbine /s lolz

Nobody that tells you to skip the contract is willing to pay you $90K and give you ME jet time.
The boom is over, 0 hour folks ain't going to majors anymore. Regionals aren't hiring. FlexJet just raised there mins to 3000 and NetJet will be next. But the advice to wait for a major or even another regional keeps getting repeated.

I took the contract so I'm not a burden or making a third of my base salary. I have a lot of turbine time and I'll be marketable when the market turns.

Contract stay or go? Don't know bro. May be overruled by the court or it may stand at a lower amount. Whatevs - I'll be marketable and have most of my bills paid off.



OP most my class applied at 1000-1100 hours and less than 6 months to get the rest.
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Yes i'm aware of the contract. I'm older and am not to concerned about the contract. I'm established in Indy already and don't have any desire to move. I have about 120 multi time so thats not an issue, I downloaded all of republics questions on aviation interviews when I had it. Thank you for the reply, i will give it a shot.

I'm old an live in Indy so its not a huge deal. Once I get established in an airline I dont want to start over gain.

[QUOTE=Bricky;3741900]-instead you should continue instructing in a 172. Eventually jobs will start up again (maybe in a year or to?) and you'll be much more competitive with 2000-3000 hours of CFI'ing than 1000+ turbine /s lolz

Nobody that tells you to skip the contract is willing to pay you $90K and give you ME jet time.
The boom is over, 0 hour folks ain't going to majors anymore. Regionals aren't hiring. FlexJet just raised there mins to 3000 and NetJet will be next. But the advice to wait for a major or even another regional keeps getting repeated.

I took the contract so I'm not a burden or making a third of my base salary. I have a lot of turbine time and I'll be marketable when the market turns.

Contract stay or go? Don't know bro. May be overruled by the court or it may stand at a lower amount. Whatevs - I'll be marketable and have most of my bills paid off.



OP most my class applied at 1000-1100 hours and less than 6 months to get the rest.




Thank you, My problem is i retire from my current job in about 6 months. Hopefully ifI apply and get chosen they wont say im too far out and re-apply in 6 moths. They did that to a friend of mine who was missing a little bit of multi time.
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You have the multi tho so your good there. Are you CFI'ing now? Do you know you'll be done on 6 months?

And you live in IND and don't plan if leaving? You sound ideal

Good luck

Another thread stated they are about 4 months out so apply using that time frame. That will allow you to build up hours anyway.