An SIC type requires 3 takeoffs and landings, some single engine work and a little ground instruction. I've got two in large-cabin bizjets, and I can't imagine what it proves. Earning one's CFI is vastly more difficult. Heck, even the CFII add-on is more difficult.

Anyhow, it's news to me that the bonus covers SIC types. Wow.

Your attitude here is really telling about your character and proclivity to learning.

My SIC Lear 35 ride was harder than my SkyWest CL-65 PIC ride. It was essentially the same ride with the same maneuvers as what I experienced at SkyWest, except that we didn't use autopilots or flight directors...and the Learjet is a much tougher aircraft to master. That one took place in a Flight Safety simulator. I thought my SKW CL-65 ride was so easy due to autopilots....

My CASA 212 and Falcon 20 SIC rides were all conducted in the actual airplane and gave me very valuable experience which the PIC CL-65 ride in a simulator never provided. Some of the maneuvers and approaches were conducted in actual instrument conditions.

True, plus someone with an SIC rating from 135 stuff likely has some good experience to offer the airlines! I came into SkyWest with a lot of valuable real world experience flying turboprop/jet aircraft all over North America...thanks to my worthless SIC ratings. Unfortunately I got on before the bonus was offered to 135/SIC rated guys, but oh well that's life :D

CFI is more work, but not every piston prop pilot can handle the speed and complexity of a glass jet. Apples to oranges.

A type rating is a good indicator for training success, which saves money and maximizes staffing. A pilot hired in the fall to staff the holidays who washes out on Dec 15th can't be replaced in time.

Is there a simple place to look up, what airframes are based at which bases?

yes...........

CRJ: Every Domicile we have. Subject to change with PDX going all 175.
ERJ: ORD, DEN, PDX, SEA, SFO, LAX

Big Thanks!

Really? Hmm. I must not know much 'bout learnin', given that I've co-founded and successfully ran one of the largest flight schools on the left coast, taking a 3-airplane Part 61 flying club to a 30-airplane Part 141 school with more students than we could possibly count and a perfect safety record.

Yup, don't know much 'bout learnin'. No siree.

And I stand by my perspective on an SIC type rating. You stand by yours. We'll all be happy.

I don't care what you've founded, you are quite simply utterly wrong in your assessment that an SIC type rating is worthless. And we all know that not all school founders are the best teachers that exist. Perhaps the company that helped you receive yours did not put too much of an investment in its pilots. That is too bad. All I know is that mine were all earned with equal sweat and fear of failure as my SkyWest CL-65 ride. I wouldn't be the pilot that I am today without having earned them. I'm not trying to get on your case here personally, but your original statement was not very thought out all too well. Let us leave it at that.