Did you call Sherri yet?
Did you apply?
OR are you just waiting for someone to come on here and agree with you? If they are worth their salt or have flown anything outside of the flight sim community it's not going to happen.
Yes I applied and no I'm not going to call. Honestly, knowing for sure if Ameriflight will automatically throw my app away is not really that important to me. It'd be nce to know, but I'm not going through the trouble of calling anyone about it.
You have 1400 hours and change. That's 200 above the minimums, that's nothing. Why should they take a chance to even waste time interviewing you? When was the last time you did an NDB hold? What makes you better than the 100 other guys out there applying who are current and have a resume as good if not better?
The fact that I'm not instrument current should be the last thing that affects my chances of getting a call from Ameriflight. Simply because BFR/medical/ipc currency is relatively easy to get (money notwithstanding), and it says nothing of your ability to fly (people will disagree with this statement but they're wrong). This is why it's be dumb for me to go out and pay $500 (that I don't have) to get current.
Can you go out there and fly, sure. But you aren't going to convince a company to spend a dime on you if you don't meet some basic requirements.
Sometimes a job ad will say something like "must live in [insert name of small town here], Montana" under the requirements section of the ad. That doesn't
necessarily mean they'll throw out all resume's from people without a small town Montana address.
Frankly I think your attitude is the biggest barrier to you accomplishing anything. If you came on here humble and genuinely asking for help you probably would have had a much better response. This community is awesome. I have no doubt in my mind if you were open to what this community would provide you probably gotten an offer for some free sim time from a random flight school. Maybe even some flight time. You had a handful of people who could have gone to Amflight and said we want this guy in our pilot group and you would have had an interview.
When i wanted to work at Amflight and was desperate to get the ball moving because they weren't responding to my application, I went to JC. My resume was walked into the VP of flight ops and the following day I got an interview arranged. Next I had a flight school let me use the same sim I was to do my interview in. I had twice your time and they barely looked at me until I had friends tell them I was good enough.
I'm going to go off topic here a little but, but this part kind of pisses me off a little, but for a different reason. I find it kind of disappointing that you seem to be assuming that I'm "failing" at posting here because it's resulting in people getting pissed off at me. As if the only reason anyone would post here is to just get people to like them enough to walk their resume in. The sad thing is, most people on this forum are here for that reason and that reason only.
If I were to pretent to be a Delta 777 captain who is in charge of hiring at Delta, I guarantee people would let me get away with posting just about anything. I could say the sky is purple, and no one would dare disagree. Why risk angering a person by telling them their crap stinks, when you can instead
not risking pissing me off, but instead kiss the ring and maybe just maybe someday it'll all pay off with me walking in resumes.
It pisses me off because I think this is at the core of many of the problems with aviation. Before I started flying I worked in the software engineering industry. We have forums just like this one. One of the things I like about those forums, is that you can call someone out when it's warranted. It don't matter who who are or who you work for. If you say something stupid, you're going to get called out on it. And by doing so, you were actually looked up upon by most others. Thats because most others had the critical thinking skills to see a post from an established member as even having the slight possibility of being wrong.
But on this forum is much different. I asked if anyone had any info on how Ameriflight hires. All I get is a response basically saying "Of course you need to be current, how else will you pass training!!!". Thats not an answer, all that is is drivel. Since that user is an OMG AMERIFLIGHT PILOT I'm supposed to just keel over and accept is as gospel. I don' care who you are or who you work for, if you want to make the assertion that not current = can't fly, then I'm going to respond and tell you you're wrong. If you want to cry about it and add me to you list of "internet users who called me out and made me cry" then go right ahead. Would it be better for my career if I just shut up and joined the circle jerk by letting the people feel like they're a special snowflake? Yep. But I'm sorry I just don't have the patience to put of with that crap for as long as it takes until it pays off. Also I guess I'm just too principled. If I'm going to get a job in aviation, I'd feel better if it were gotten fairly instead of by kissing up to people on the internet.
Keep pissing off people and see where it gets you. You have no idea who is reading your posts and it will be blatantly obvious when your application comes in and matches your posts. :clap:
feel free to add me to your list of "internet users who have pissed me off". write a blog post about it. twitter it.
