You all can trash the company and the training dept all you want but please leave the coastlines out of this. Sorry just had to stand up for the A.C., we're pretty tight yo.

Go read commutair thread. Most people there wish they could get a PDT contract and pay scale. 27 an hour for first year is probably industry leading for dash. IMO as a professional pilot, asking 50k a year as base should be the minimum but as sad as it is, we're struggling for a measly 30 an hour as first year pay. Morale sucks there from a handful of friends I got there. Morale sucks in PSA where I'm at. Look around. The super regionals are worried about furloughing, seniority integration troubles and what not. Get your time and get out. That's what pdt/psa is good for. For the senior pilots and the lifers, of course they're beat and tired of the bs they deal with from the company for 20 years. If you've been there for 1-5 years and whine, don't act like you've been there for 20 years. It was a risk going there and you took it. Tough it out, get your pic time and go whine at the majors. I guarantee if you're whining here, grass ain't that much greener on the other side. Inversely, if you're making the best of it wherever you are, you will have a happy successful career in the majors. Sorry about venting. Just tired of 21 year olds with 250 hours complaining when they get washed out. But I am sincerely happy for and envious of the 21 year olds that made it thru. You guys are way ahead of the game.

Agreed. What seems to get lost here is the larger number of new-hires that do make it through training. Not only at PDT and PSA, but other airlines as well. Successful completion of any airline training program is a great accomplishment and a credit to both the new-hires that studied and worked hard and the instructors they had.

Exactly, these are the type of comments we should be reading more often! Not wasting our time feeling bad for all those failures we had this past year.

Dude...I'm not gonna lie...you come across as a HUGE d-ck. Those "failures" are people. Those people whos careers are now ruined because of a lousy training department. I've heard plenty of stories about the Piedmont training department and not alot of them positive. So quit thinking people want to share positive stories about a bunch of lousy and lazy instructors.

If you have what it takes, nobody can fail you! I personally have no issue with any of the instructor there, all are approachable and will help you if need be.
And stop bashing anyone based on STORIES!

I'm slightly more concerned with our fleet of antiques then anything else. LOTS of major mx issues lately. Anyone see the report on the D8-100 in new guinea? Both side props oversped 20-60% photos of the wreck show both sets in fx. Have Had a couple planes having major pcu issues the last 3 months... Keep your eyes open guys.

Your right! No more listening to BS stories. We have awesome instructors here. In my opinion cream of the crop. The only down side is we maybe have hired to many pilots in anticipation of the 200's we were suppose to get. So maybe thats why you see a larger wash out rate but anyway thats besides the point. So who on here has been taking advantage of the new permanent bids we have been doing over the last months or so? Must be nice to get all situated and everything in base. Especially for the newbies who passed training and everything

Lets not try to scare anyone around here now. The 100 which overtorqued in NG hadn't had its proper checks. This issue was brought up to MX in MDT and they work around the clock to ensure our aircraft are the safest around. They are very pro-active in the work they do. Kudos to them

Dashes are monsters! They're like the cockroaches, never dies. RJs we got, especially the 200's are getting engines overhauled left and right. Had at least 3 in flight shutdowns in the past two months that I heard of. Repoed two of them. Feel like a test pilot without the glory and the money and the women lol