UPS Announces Training Program - FlightPath
12-13-2018 | 04:13 AM
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Agreed. That’s a bizarre comment.
A couple years ago I was told by an AA recruiter that I should quit my RJ job, go to Frontier or Spirit and “Learn how to fly big airplanes” to be competitive at AA. At the time I was a CRJ PIC flying multiple legs into Aspen every week. I was without question the sharpest I’ll ever be in my career at that time. His comment was clearly laughable, stupid, and I’m sure not representative of most people at AA.
A couple years ago I was told by an AA recruiter that I should quit my RJ job, go to Frontier or Spirit and “Learn how to fly big airplanes” to be competitive at AA. At the time I was a CRJ PIC flying multiple legs into Aspen every week. I was without question the sharpest I’ll ever be in my career at that time. His comment was clearly laughable, stupid, and I’m sure not representative of most people at AA.
I was told nearly the same at my AA meet and greet at the WAI job fair. At the time I was (and still) flying a squirrelly Citation X into the most challenging airports and all kinds of weather. He told me to go to The regionals, and perhaps get a large cabin type like the 320 and come back.
12-13-2018 | 06:23 AM
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I was told nearly the same at my AA meet and greet at the WAI job fair. At the time I was (and still) flying a squirrelly Citation X into the most challenging airports and all kinds of weather. He told me to go to The regionals, and perhaps get a large cabin type like the 320 and come back.
12-13-2018 | 07:09 AM
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From that article, what does the year-long internship consist of before you get the enjoyment of Ameriflight?
Let me get this straight. UPS wants to take someone with limited knowledge and flying skills and “train” them by using ameriflight to the UPS standards?
Why not take an individual who has extensive aviation knowledge and skills and train them to UPS standards?
Let me get this straight. UPS wants to take someone with limited knowledge and flying skills and “train” them by using ameriflight to the UPS standards?
Why not take an individual who has extensive aviation knowledge and skills and train them to UPS standards?
12-13-2018 | 07:48 AM
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From that article, what does the year-long internship consist of before you get the enjoyment of Ameriflight?
Let me get this straight. UPS wants to take someone with limited knowledge and flying skills and “train” them by using ameriflight to the UPS standards?
Why not take an individual who has extensive aviation knowledge and skills and train them to UPS standards?
Let me get this straight. UPS wants to take someone with limited knowledge and flying skills and “train” them by using ameriflight to the UPS standards?
Why not take an individual who has extensive aviation knowledge and skills and train them to UPS standards?
12-13-2018 | 09:16 AM
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12-13-2018 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Vital Signs
Why not take an individual who has extensive aviation knowledge and skills and train them to UPS standards?
Think about it this way: by UPS creating a program for interns to go to AMF and gain real-world experience flying freight in twin turboprops before having the opportunity to wear brown polyester, they have created a small but steady stream of new pilots to fly their feeder aircraft instead of those former interns going to a regional airline to build the experience necessary to be considered for employment flying for UPS.
It is a win/win for UPS, Ameriflight and UPS interns alike - and for interns it is a moderate risk but extremely high reward proposition.
As to your question about 'what does the year-long internship consist of?', I cannot speak for the current program but as a former Training Center Co-op much of my duties revolved around program development.
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