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Originally Posted by Plopter72
rickair,
Are you advocating getting picked up by a regional first, like Republic, to build turbine FW time fast?
Not if you can help it. Get your time in the military if you can.
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A lot of blogs mention that crossing from Regionals to Legacy is hard; I'm not sure why.
There's no reason that working at a regional would "taint" you...if people have trouble making the jump it's probably because they weren't too competitive in the first place, or had some other issue. But it's quite common for RW guys to work at regionals and then move on. That would probably be considered normal for RW, while it might be considered not normal for a fighter or heavy guy.
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Originally Posted by Plopter72
If I left the AF in 2 years, flew regionals (a huge pay cut) until I got the minimum FW turbine, who knows what a Legacy would think of my resume or if they'd even look at me. I wonder how many military pilots have taken this route.
Plenty have taken that route, but I'd avoid it if possible just due to the pay issue.
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Is age not of concern here?
Not unless you're over 60.
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I have been told, and the DAL website says, they take into account quality of time versus quantity. I understand your concerns with the landing techniques of a tiltrotor over a FW...makes sense, but I hope a Legacy could see what else my experience has to offer and that I can be taught how to fly a coupled ILS to mins with crappy visibility.
It's not MY concerns. There's not going to be ANY subjective valuation of your powered lift time...they either take it or they don't and their policy will apply to all applicants. As far as I know they don't, so you can't even get an interview. You can alwayshope their policy changes in the near future, but I wouldn't hang my hat on it. But do research all the majors individually, I could be out of touch on this.
V-22 is powered lift in the FAA world, neither RW or FW. Airlines could accept PL time towards some or all of their mins if they wanted to but that's typically more of a regional thing where they allow some RW credit (I assume but don't know those that accept RW would take PL as well).