Regional Today, ULLC Tomorrow

@nibake we have spoken in the past; however I don't think you we're with SY at the time, I could be wrong. If not, congrats on the progress.
Appreciate the response; helpful now just as in the past. I'm leaning more and more towards a regional now versus staying in 135 another year. Thanks again.
 
86BravoPapa said:
@nibake we have spoken in the past; however I don't think you we're with SY at the time, I could be wrong. If not, congrats on the progress.
Appreciate the response; helpful now just as in the past. I'm leaning more and more towards a regional now versus staying in 135 another year. Thanks again.
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I agree. If your life situation allows it, take the quickest progression you can get, and with any luck there will be many options on the table soon. Thanks for the congrats. After two years in turboprops I am very happy in the 737 :)
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
How was training and transition to the 737?
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Very good question. It was a heck of a jump in some ways. Training was very good though. Memorizing limitations doesn't change much between the 150 and the 737. Staying ahead of the jet in the terminal environment can be challenging when you are used to flying to and from one horse towns. Autothrottles and VNAV have a way of adding confusion instead of simplifying things when you aren't used to them.

Currently upgrade times are dropping from sub 3 years and approaching 2 years. I have a lot to learn if I'm going to be ready for that. Fortunately we have a lot of good instructors and great captains who are easy to work with. Having an A&P and a B.S. in aeronautics, I had a good knowledge base to draw on. I often wonder how much difference that makes in the grand scheme of things. Knowing when to push VNAV and when to push LVL CHG doesn't seem to be contingent on understanding stoichiometric ratios.
 
jtrain609 said:
Without question. But seriously you'd never know about this kid unless you knew him, he just doesn't talk about how awesome he is.
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I suppose. I get tired of having this sort of conversation of one guy being better than the other. The last guy i really got into a discussion about it was more saying, "hey this kid got it at 26, youre 36, wth?" I was being my normal self until i realized he was trying to make me feel like id slacked off and kept myself at a regional too long. I remmeber laughing and asking why the hell wasnt he at delta, he was 26 and a go getter, what gives you loser. So fast forward he saw the dgi success rate and went to jetblue rather than even wait and see. How do am i suppose to keep a straight face with this crap? No one has any big plan.

Im not going to pretend i went to "job fair" job fairs. Im not gonna pretend i was all go big nuts. Swa didnt want me delta did. Theres a lot of young guys getting over here some "earned it" some didnt, and hr can eat me. I will say if you keep a good attitude it may not make you a perfect interview candidate, but your at least a person people wanna fly with. A lot of these clowns with big talk and a rush and anger your not buying into their crap aint got it right either and theyre effin annoying to fly with.

Let guys enjoy themselves, do what they want, stay away from crappy operators and make some money and build some hours. If youre smart volunteer for the union and work hard if you do. Thats about it for my magic career advise, surprise, it was my career.
 
Hearing JB is handing out interviews that it's so easy is odd to me. It took me 6 apps, 3000+ TT, and 500 TPIC with a 4 year degree... And some help from a pilot there too. I still felt that I was at the bottom of "competitive".

Not sure who is getting LCC interviews 6 months into a regional? Prior military???
 
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tcco94 said:
Not sure who is getting LCC interviews 6 months into a regional?
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I'd be surprised if that's the whole story in the cases people are talking about. There was someone at my regional who got hired at JB after roughly a year as an FO here. He was the chief pilot of I believe a 135 operator , or it may have been a 91 flight department, for a while before he came here.
 
tcco94 said:
Hearing JB is handing out interviews that it's so easy is odd to me. It took me 6 apps, 3000+ TT, and 500 TPIC with a 4 year degree... And some help from a pilot there too. I still felt that I was at the bottom of "competitive".

Not sure who is getting LCC interviews 6 months into a regional? Prior military???
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Non mil, unless you can go mil and get out by 25'ish. expert Dani's pizza eater and regular at the Hanger. If there's more to getting on he didn't mention it, all he said was, "Yeah man, Jetblue likes EDV guys." He also lived in base, he commuted at first and then found a place by the E train on the union station/kew stop.
 
jynxyjoe said:
Non mil, unless you can go mil and get out by 25'ish. expert Dani's pizza eater and regular at the Hanger. If there's more to getting on he didn't mention it, all he said was, "Yeah man, Jetblue likes EDV guys." He also lived in base, he commuted at first and then found a place by the E train on the union station/kew stop.
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At my interview they said the 2 regionals they hire the most from is OO and 9E. I mean I'm sure the numbers are supportive that a lot move on from 9E but a large majority of OO'ers I see going to jetblue still are 3000+ TT and at least 500 TPIC (minus a few exceptions, but that can be said for every airline)

Just don't know about this narrative that it's easy... Just my opinion
 
tcco94 said:
At my interview they said the 2 regionals they hire the most from is OO and 9E. I mean I'm sure the numbers are supportive that a lot move on from 9E but a large majority of OO'ers I see going to jetblue still are 3000+ TT and at least 500 TPIC (minus a few exceptions, but that can be said for every airline)

Just don't know about this narrative that it's easy... Just my opinion
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Yeah and (im not saying youre doing this)but im not offering my experience hanging in kew with old coworkwrs as proof conclusive. Theres some young and low time guys making it over, but, i dont have their resumes in front of me. Id have to go back and look but i believe my joke was something like "spend a year at EDV and go direct to jetblue as a part of the Endeavor to Jetblue program named the DGI." It may not even be this thread. Theres been some comically low time pilots at southernjets intonnationul matching jetblue, theyre out there supposedly, but at SJI theres some 30 yr pilots here trying to get their children in from big sky or whatever. Jetblue aint quite to that level of legacy hire yet. At the same time i could have said 2 yr and pissed less poster off but i wasnt thinking id spend a whole thread defending antecodotal information which is as close to true as i know it to be.

Frankly 500 hr of 1900 time is equal to 3000 jet time anyhow.
 
Hey, heres one, SJI is down to a 2 yr upgrade so maybe pilots can come here instead of edv and try to get onto Jetblue from there. Junior base is NY, good pay and work rules. Who knows if we get this new TA passed it might be worth staying for the long haul.

*Shrug*

Pelt me with stones, idc, im funny dammit
 
jynxyjoe said:
Hey, heres one, SJI is down to a 2 yr upgrade so maybe pilots can come here instead of edv and try to get onto Jetblue from there. Junior base is NY, good pay and work rules. Who knows if we get this new TA passed it might be worth staying for the long haul.

*Shrug*

Pelt me with stones, idc, im funny dammit
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SJI seems to love pulling from jetblue, lol

But how much flight time is truly just flight time? You always need some other meat and bones on your app anyways...

We all digress...
 
tcco94 said:
SJI seems to love pulling from jetblue, lol
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LOL, could be but I didn't see it when I was in class. A Jetblue CHS pilot with 4+ years did just come over, and he's my age. There's guys coming from the ULCC/LCC I just don't see a wave of them like the regionals
 
jynxyjoe said:
Yeah. If you hand fly and PNF/PM the 1900 for 500 hours, that's equal to working 3000 hours in a shiny jet.
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Do the airlines hold that sentiment? I thought single pilot turboprop time wasn't held in the same regard as jet, crew environment time; even though both check the turbine time box?
 
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