Cnx'd/un-cnx'd/cnx'd/interview/hired Pacific Wings

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jhugz said:
I agree w/ Mike, go check it out, and see what kind of vibe you come up w/ if it isn't to much money. It'll should be a good learning experience for you. As for my comment about blackballing you it was based solely on the trolling aspect of these threads. I can't remember who came up w/ this phrase on here but do less talking and more listening and you'll be fine, advice we all could follow more including myself. I don't think you qualify w/ your multi time but I know Key Lime is hiring navajo drivers. Martinaire seems to be always hiring caravan captains where you'll make more, fly less, and have a better QoL. This goes back to the whole community thing. I was offered an interview at Martinaire solely from my connections through JC, along with my current job offer solely on my JC connections. Network.Network.Network I'll keep an ear out for you though.
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Nah I don't need to see it. Even if they came across as the nicest people during the interview theres nothing to stop them from screewing me over. The only good thing about them is they said I can fly VFR PIC until I get the last 40 night hours, that's why I can't get a call from any other part 135 companies.
 
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ppragman said:
Screw turbine time, follow the money. That's my biggest advice to you. Follow the money.
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:yeahthat: but I'd say money and/or QOL. I think my biggest life lesson was that I need to be less focused on getting there and instead slow down and enjoy the ride. Keep the eye on the prize (a job at a real airline), but don't get tunnel vision. I went to school in a place I hated because I thought it would help get me to that coveted airline job. It did (not that other paths wouldn't have). But when I got here, as nice as it was there was a lot of "I put up with all that crap for THIS?"

Not to be Debbie downer, I like my job. But when you are so focused on something, you make it out to be more than it is. So you're setting yourself up to be underwhelmed when you finally make it.
 
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rockman2343@aol.com said:
Thanks for the advice everyone, another potential disaster narrowly avoided.
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Until a month from now, when there's a thread here titled "Oh yeah, Landed the Pacific Wings interview!! yet again!!!"
 
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MikeD said:
Ironic that Colgan doesn't even pay their pilots on time, along with all the other crap the pilots there put up with; yet still guys flock to that place hand over fist. Yet I hear zero people giving someone grief for going to that operation.
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It's because everyone wants to be Han Solo 8)
Chicks dig beta!
 
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lol, chicks dig beta. I like that.
 
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Screaming_Emu said:
:yeahthat: but I'd say money and/or QOL. I think my biggest life lesson was that I need to be less focused on getting there and instead slow down and enjoy the ride. Keep the eye on the prize (a job at a real airline), but don't get tunnel vision. I went to school in a place I hated because I thought it would help get me to that coveted airline job. It did (not that other paths wouldn't have). But when I got here, as nice as it was there was a lot of "I put up with all that crap for THIS?"

Not to be Debbie downer, I like my job. But when you are so focused on something, you make it out to be more than it is. So you're setting yourself up to be underwhelmed when you finally make it.
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SJS destroys your QoL, I made twice as much at my old gig, and was home 99.9% of the time at night. But it wasn't turbine, and it wasn't twin. So, you live and you learn. Being home, having money, and time off far outweigh turbine time, multi time, or any other type of time, it'll come, or it won't, who cares?
 
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ppragman said:
SJS destroys your QoL, I made twice as much at my old gig, and was home 99.9% of the time at night. But it wasn't turbine, and it wasn't twin. So, you live and you learn. Being home, having money, and time off far outweigh turbine time, multi time, or any other type of time, it'll come, or it won't, who cares?
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My personal opinion: There's a compromise somewhere in the middle. If you only care about QOL and having "just enough" money, you'll most likely get stuck flying small aircraft around for so-so money. Ask the guys I know with 5,000 hours in C402s. Most are perfectly happy (and that's great for them), but there are those who want to move on but can't because they have zero experience outside single-pilot IFR in piston equipment. One-trick ponies, if you will.

I'm actually having this conversation right now with a friend of mine. He's a King Air PIC deciding whether or not he should make the jump to the company I work for. He's home every night and makes a comfortable amount of money for his needs, but he's hooked on that lifestyle even though he's single and doesn't have kids. He doesn't want to change jobs because he'd actually have to go back on the road.

What's more important in that case? QOL, or your resume? Unless you've got a family at home, I vote resume. My outlook is that you should never pass up an upgrade in seat or equipment unless 1) the company sucks (applies to the OP in this thread), or 2) you have a family that needs you at home. If neither apply, sleeping in your own bed every night is a poor excuse for not aggressively bettering your career opportunities.
 
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MikeD said:
Until a month from now, when there's a thread here titled "Oh yeah, Landed the Pacific Wings interview!! yet again!!!"
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I know....It's like a teenage girl trying to pick out a boyfriend.
 
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rockman2343@aol.com said:
Nah I don't need to see it. Even if they came across as the nicest people during the interview theres nothing to stop them from screewing me over. The only good thing about them is they said I can fly VFR PIC until I get the last 40 night hours, that's why I can't get a call from any other part 135 companies.
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Curious, why can't you get any night time? Student pilots need 3 hours to get the PPL, instrument guys can fly at night.
 
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dasleben said:
I'm actually having this conversation right now with a friend of mine. He's a King Air PIC deciding whether or not he should make the jump to the company I work for. He's home every night and makes a comfortable amount of money for his needs, but he's hooked on that lifestyle even though he's single and doesn't have kids. He doesn't want to change jobs because he'd actually have to go back on the road.
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I genuinely hope that he's happy. I wish him the best. And I understand where he's coming from. That said, you have another "buddy" (from the internet) who has jet PIC experience and would screw Waco's Mom to be where you are. Not naming any names.

In all earnestness, different strokes for different folks. Maybe he's happy there and that's what he wants. There's no shame in that, provided his decisions aren't predicated on a "best case scenario" notion of the Future. Me? I want a seniority list and a schedule. Viva la differance!
 
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mojo6911 said:
Curious, why can't you get any night time? Student pilots need 3 hours to get the PPL, instrument guys can fly at night.
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They are foreign students and don't need night in the VFR phase. They aren't doing an FAA program
 
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OMGZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!11!!11!!!!!1!!1! PW is hiring again A/S/L? I mean whatz the upgrade time???!!?!?11

But really have you tried a different flight school in the valley? There are only 100 of them. Like I said before try transpac or "visky visky". Either one of them are flying at all hours of the day and have twins just sitting around waiting to be flown
 
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dasleben said:
My personal opinion: There's a compromise somewhere in the middle. If you only care about QOL and having "just enough" money, you'll most likely get stuck flying small aircraft around for so-so money. Ask the guys I know with 5,000 hours in C402s. Most are perfectly happy (and that's great for them), but there are those who want to move on but can't because they have zero experience outside single-pilot IFR in piston equipment. One-trick ponies, if you will.

I'm actually having this conversation right now with a friend of mine. He's a King Air PIC deciding whether or not he should make the jump to the company I work for. He's home every night and makes a comfortable amount of money for his needs, but he's hooked on that lifestyle even though he's single and doesn't have kids. He doesn't want to change jobs because he'd actually have to go back on the road.

What's more important in that case? QOL, or your resume? Unless you've got a family at home, I vote resume. My outlook is that you should never pass up an upgrade in seat or equipment unless 1) the company sucks (applies to the OP in this thread), or 2) you have a family that needs you at home. If neither apply, sleeping in your own bed every night is a poor excuse for not aggressively bettering your career opportunities.
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The problem is to get the requisite time to get to where you need to be you've got to take a pay cut, or have a crap schedule. My dillemma, as always has been "mortgage the present against the future, or the future against the present," eitherway you'll probably end up with the same net QoL, but its just how you go about getting it. He'll I'd love to go fly a CRJ or a Bro, the problem is that the fiancee and I can barely make it on what we've got right now, why would I take a pay cut to get 121 Jet Crew time when the future is uncertain? Unless I'd be getting a pay raise at my first 121 gig, as of right now, the QoL cut sure as hell isn't worth it.
 
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ppragman said:
The problem is to get the requisite time to get to where you need to be you've got to take a pay cut, or have a crap schedule. My dillemma, as always has been "mortgage the present against the future, or the future against the present," eitherway you'll probably end up with the same net QoL, but its just how you go about getting it. He'll I'd love to go fly a CRJ or a Bro, the problem is that the fiancee and I can barely make it on what we've got right now, why would I take a pay cut to get 121 Jet Crew time when the future is uncertain? Unless I'd be getting a pay raise at my first 121 gig, as of right now, the QoL cut sure as hell isn't worth it.
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Horizon is a pay bump for you and you wouldn't have to move much. Plus you get to wear the monkey suit!
 
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crazyjaydawg said:
OMGZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!11!!11!!!!!1!!1! PW is hiring again A/S/L? I mean whatz the upgrade time???!!?!?11

But really have you tried a different flight school in the valley? There are only 100 of them. Like I said before try transpac or "visky visky". Either one of them are flying at all hours of the day and have twins just sitting around waiting to be flown
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I've tried Transpac, they won't hire me, I don't know why.
 
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Boris Badenov said:
That said, you have another "buddy" (from the internet) who has jet PIC experience and would screw Waco's Mom to be where you are. Not naming any names.
Viva la differance!
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I would imagine you'd screw my Mom anyway...even if it was just to fly a Tomahawk with an Indian passenger who hadn't showered in a week across Texas on a hot day. It's just who you are...you shouldn't try to fool us into thinking you have standards and would only do that for a shot at a big jet. Lest anyone think this is a criticism it's not...it's one of the things I find most endearing about my good friend Boris.
 
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Wait, does this mean PW has an interview slot open?!


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