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TheFlyingTurkey

TheFlyingTurkey

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The posted minimums are a little high at 1000TT 200Multi, but I know people were getting hired with as little as 500 hours and 50 multi a year ago.
Looks like they are lower than that now because Piedmont has started a company referral program to provide employee's with incentives to find pilots to join Piedmont.

The interview has gotten tougher than it was when I interviewed. They changed the written test, and added a SIM ride. It also looks like they might be getting the Q400 because the PDT MEC chairman is in talks with USAirways Chairman and VP's about flow-through and scope relief for the Q400 (in the 69 seat config).

I encourage anyone near 500TT and 50 Multi to send in a resume. I really enjoyed working at PDT and if I ever get back into airline flying...PDT will be the first place I send a resume.

Contact info:

Corporate Recruiter
5443 Airport Terminal Road
Salisbury, MD 21804
Email: treaves@piedmontmail.com

Link to Piedmont careers:
http://www.piedmont-airlines.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=cat&cat_id=70
 
BTW, PDT up until now has only hired low-timers from ERAU, UND, Purdue, and DWC (and maybe another I forgot). My roommate (less time than I) and I applied there back in the fall at the same time. He got a call a week later for an interview and I never heard anything. I even had my stuff walked in after that from current pilots... nothing.

So my roommate just started class, and asked the HR woman what was up with that (as they are hurting real bad for FOs... seriously)... and she said that if I didn't go to one of those schools, then I needed the 1000/100... I went to WMU. I don't think they owe me a job or anything like that, but I don't think they realize why they can't get people in class.

Funny thing is, I teach at one of the schools they do take low timers from. They'd take someone with much less time, who I taught how to fly, before they would take me. I can't say I have much sympathy for their FO shortage (plenty of sympathy for the CAs and FOs that are getting junior manned, but the company needs to figure it out).

Oh, and I got hired somewhere else now... that's one less pilot they could've had. Too bad, their pay is pretty good and I've heard their contract is pretty decent as well.

And as for junior bases, from what I understand, new hires can get just about anywhere except EWN.
 
I was based at EWN and loved it because my wife had family there so I had a free crash pad with home cooked meals and my own room and my own bathroom. Free. 15 minutes from the airport. It is pretty senior now but thats because PDT closed the base at CLT. But it is very difficult to commute to EWN because the flights are almost always full of Marines going to and from Cherry Point. I know a few senior capts and FO's that took LGA because of the easier commute. So pretty much you could end up at any base.


I don't know why some people get called and others dont... I dont think that is specific to PDT...I hear it all the time. I never got called to interview at XJT while all my buddies with similar times got the call. There is just something in your resume they dont like...its not personal. I got called to interview at PDT because I was a CFI at Pan Am Flight Academy, they took some low time guys from there. I had 1100 TT and 125 Multi when they hired me. Other guys in my class had more, some had as low as 600TT. They seem to hire a wide range of experience and see what sticks. Out of 8 hires in my class 7 passed training. 1 guy failed because he hadn't flown in a few years and was just too rusty and couldn't pass the SIM.
 
Actually, she specifically said it was because I didn't go to one of those schools. Another tidbit is that I know they don't have an actual 'bridge' program at my current school (a preferred PDT supplier), because the mgmt. doesn't want any.

If I sounded bitter, I really didn't mean it that way. I just think it's odd that they can't figure out why they can't get people to come. When you constantly have 15 people scheduled for class and 5 show up, you've got to change something. The most recent class was supposed to have 5 new hires... 2 got other offers and decided to turn down the class at the last minute.
 
It it seriously start to look like PDT and PSA are going to merge (after YEARS of speculation). Scott Kirby has been talking about a major shakeup for the Wholly Owned's and unless it is the fact that we are switch from a blazer to a leather jacket, a merger makes the most sense. I guess I'd better hope for some fences or I may become a LGA Dash FO.
 
On APC there has been talk about PSA maybe being dismantled?

This true? They're one of my top choices...
 
SmitteyB said:
On APC there has been talk about PSA maybe being dismantled?

This true? They're one of my top choices...
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A friend of mine has been at PSA for a little over 2 years. A lot of people talk down on them---but I have heard nothing but good things from this guy. The only gripe is last year as a lineholder he had about 15 days off a month. Now lines are being built with pretty much min. days off (which I think is the case everywhere right now).

Plus---CLT is a pretty awesome town to live in!
 
PDT aka Republic Airways Pilot Development (RAPD)

Oh, and if you go to PDT you must talk smack about AWAC, and deny the jumpseat to those losers.
 
wheelsup said:
Oh, and if you go to PDT you must talk smack about AWAC, and deny the jumpseat to those losers.
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Huh? Do they not like you guys for some reason? Just make sure you don't make fun of their nifty baseball caps they wear some times and you should be all set.
 
I interviewed at PDT recently and was offerred the job but turned it down to take another offer. The written has changed as was noted earlier but it isn't all that tough if you know the right things to study. Any people interviewing there in the future can feel free to pm me and I will send you an "unofficial" study guide to the written.
 
BobDDuck said:
Huh? Do they not like you guys for some reason? Just make sure you don't make fun of their nifty baseball caps they wear some times and you should be all set.
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Some of them are pretty bitter because they used to own ORF and now we operate the majority of the flights in/out of ORF. I think the gate agents/rampers are PDT still??
 
wheelsup said:
PDT aka Republic Airways Pilot Development (RAPD)

Oh, and if you go to PDT you must talk smack about AWAC, and deny the jumpseat to those losers.
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Where's the whiskey love?...I have a good friend there...seriously what's the beef? Did they take some of PDT's flyin' when they began flying under US Airways?
 
When I interviewed I had 1175 TT/ 220 ME / 135 turbine part 135 and no "big name" collegiate aviation degree.
 
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