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What are the competitive numbers? I'm willing to bet it involves TPIC at the legacies. This is was matters in the end. People at majors on this very site say 1500 TPIC is optimal. With a background of 121, 135, CFI, TPIC, and PIC time in general I expect to be more competitive than most of the 2007-2008 zero to hero wave of pilots.
Also TPIC has had a huge past. AMF uses it as a recruiting item, but so does everyone else as it is was makes a pilot competitive for a good job in the future. When I joined AMF the airlines still required 1000 TPIC unless they were a national carrier such as Spirit, JetBlue, or Virgin.
Well you were stuck in oak. To get the maximum benefit out of AMF you have to move. I'll have my 1000 TPIC at about the 2.5 year mark.
In the end we won't know, but I believe a more varied background will be what can put me ahead at an interview.
Again though, thats what they say now, ask some of the guys that have been there for 10 years what they got hired on with. This stuff all changes. Hell I heard SWA requires applicants to have turbofan time. Nobody is getting that at AMF without the Lears. So we can get all the TPIC we want, without these specific requirements nobody is getting in. A lot of airlines require real multi-crew experience. And these companies know that AMF multi-crew is different from real multi-crew minus the Bro.
As these requirements mold and change, we will not know if we meet anything until we see a posting somewhere. I have heard about the turbofan requirement from 3 different SWA pilots. This literally screws 99% of the pilot crop at AMF. So you spend 4 years at AMF getting your 1000TPIC only to find out you need a bunch of turbofan time, then its off to the regionals or corporate to get it. This is where a huge percentage of pilots are weighing options and finding it a better option to head to the regionals (especially on west coast bases that are going to be gone soon). The QOL will be better there I think we can all agree with that. The first year pay will suck ass I think we can all agree with that. But we can also all agree, the equipment, and environment at a regional are much better suited to get you to a major than freight. So if the dream is to get to a major that has funny requirements, such as a year of 121 experience, or turbofan time, or FMS experience, multi-crew aircraft experience, or hours in an aircraft above 40,000lbs. Whatever it is, freight ain't gonna get any of us there unless we work for Atlas or the like.
Thats not an AMF bash, I loved the experience I got there I wouldn't change it. Hell it got me my current gig because of the reputation AMF pilots have. But for the guys with the end goal to get into a major, a major major, you are going to be competing against guys with the 1000TPIC sure, but they will also have been flying aircraft built this century, in the 121 environment already. I don't think anyone will argue at the advantage of that.