Inverted
mmmmmm wine
In the past three years out of my base, 6 have gone on to fly corporate jets, 1 has gone to JetBlue ( recently), and one left for air whiskey.
Lately MOST pilots have left for corporate flying. I'm work here and I'm telling what I know about not just what I've HEARD about.
PR pilots fly to far more countries than any regional pilots wou old ever fly to. There is a lot of interesting flying that goes on down there. We deal with customs quite a bit more than you'd think. All the flight plans aren't canned. Sometimes we have to go into the flight planning offices and file them ourselves.
One thing about is that no two customs procedure is alike. There nothing too difficult about it but it's experience non the less.
It looks like you guys have gone to AMF gotten your experience and left or bailed for the regionals. And in the meantime selling everyone else's experience here short.
@Inverted, your boss and his boss (who I just hung out with last week) believe that AMF produces pilots that have gained the experience that fits in well with there own company to the point where the exclusively only hire AMF pilots. You mentioned it was the GIVE AMF pilots a chance. But it goes a bit further than that. It's because they know exactly what type of pilot they're getting. They know how they were trained and they're skill set.
There are two other companies that are doing the same thing.
The experience at AMF is worth something and it's a shame that you guys sell that experience short.
I'm not trying to sell AMF short, it worked for me, but 121 isn't the end all be all for me. I wouldn't trade my time at AMF for anything. Out of the revolving door that is the HWD base, I only know of. 4 out of maybe 15 people that haven't gone to the regionals.
Hiring AMF guys at my company just makes sense, they're local, good enough pilots to pass training, and are most likely miserable and ready to get out. Plus this is an entry level jet job.
It was really fun flying by comparison, although teaching acro is still the tops for me. When we are all push button flying at our dream jobs down the road, we will miss the single pilot hands on flying we did, I know I will.
Btw KLB, do you fly the Bro in MIA?