Just was wondering if the only way to get hired was to attend a group hiring. Or can you submitt your resume and wait for a call? Also I am sitting at 990TT 190ME If I put in 10 hrs early will they boot me? I know some airlines will take the extra over the multi requirement and put it towards the TT. Example in my case... requirements are 1000 and 100 for SkyWest, so take ten of my ME and count it as TT and say my new times are 1000TT 180ME which now meets the requirements. I have heard of airlines doing this but not SkyWest, I heard they stick pretty hard to their set mins. What ya think??
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flyguy
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I don't know about SkyWest specifically, but at some ailines they go into your logbook and see how many hours you had the date you applied. If you have less than minimum at the time you applied, but said you had more on the actual application you technically lied on your app and they send you home.
MusketeerMan
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Skywest's minimums are just that...minimums. 1000 TT is required...
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
You could apply at Skywest East. Which is ASA,their mins are 600/100. Congrads you meet and they're hiring!
Lee D
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Several months back a buddy of mine was in a similar boat. So I checked with the powers that be in the pilot hiring department; and the 1000 hour thing is not negotiable. Though I've heard we do have slightly lower mins IF you go through one of the programs at ATP or somewhere like that.
Get the 10 hours and get the online app and resume in. I know we are hungry for new blood.
OR if you want to live down South, like Max said, ASA is hiring too. Heck, send apps to both.
Get the 10 hours and get the online app and resume in. I know we are hungry for new blood.
OR if you want to live down South, like Max said, ASA is hiring too. Heck, send apps to both.
CaptChris
New Member
I know someone (not going to name any names) who went through that and failed CRJ training at the regional level. Nice job UND
jdflight
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Nope. Get the ten hours. Stop trying to cut corners.
Hootie
Old Skool
wheelsup
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yeah, just use a pen
Shouldn't take more than a few minutes !(fly what you can, log what you need)
stuckingfk
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He probably would have really failed if he hadn't done it. Just because someone fails doesn't mean he/she is a bad pilot. People fail stuff all the time.
Case in point: I simmed with a guy at Flight Safety this summer and he failed the type check TWICE for the CJ3. The guy had 2000+ hours in an Excel and had over 10,000 hours in jets.
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
Difference between "failing" and "really failing" is the same, though.
This guy may have failed on his attitude, too. We're getting a LOT of guys (according to some of the check airmen, at least) that are going through training here thinking they own the CRJ b/c they went through some crash course program. Even had one guy show up with a temp commercial cert for his oral. Not a problem, except it was more than 120 days old. He had the "What? But I scored high on the systems test!" attitude about it. We're getting guys like this from several places that offer the CRJ course.
I can understand paying money for a course to give you a leg up. Understand yet, but I don't agree with it. Seems kinda silly since the guys in your class all did the same thing, so who exactly did you get a leg up on? Certainly wasn't SLM since she owns your soul now. If someone goes into an airline ground school thinking they're owed a job, then they SHOULD get their balls busted. If you come in with a humble attitude and willing to learn how to fly the plane the way that company wants you to, you should do fine. If I were a ground school instructor, and some guy stood up and said something like "But at ATP/UND/JetU they said...." I'd have to restrain myself from hitting him. Guess that's why I'm not a ground instructor.
Does anybody know what about the 100 instrument hours they require?
They are kind of hard to build if you instruct and don't see much actual.
Take a situation of 20 FTD, 20 actual and 40 hood time (total 70), should I go and rent a plane for 30 hours with a safety pilot, or is this requirement a little more lenient?
They are kind of hard to build if you instruct and don't see much actual.
Take a situation of 20 FTD, 20 actual and 40 hood time (total 70), should I go and rent a plane for 30 hours with a safety pilot, or is this requirement a little more lenient?
nope...it's required.......you can only count 20 hours of sim time towards that. Go flying on cloudy days. Ask another instructor to come along with you and give you some dual while you're under the hood. The safety pilot thing sends up little yellow flags at Skywest....
Encourage your instrument students to go up in actual if you can find it......you'll get it soon enough. Just make a concerned effort towards it and it'll happen.....
Lee D
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If you are having a hard time finding actual, go file IFR on a VFR day, get a buddy to come along as safety pilot and go somewhere to get a burger or whatever. Get some night hood time if you can.
I instructed in the SLC area, and it was difficult to get large amounts of safe actual, due to high MEA's & Icing issues associated with this area. I filed IFR where I could and flew under the hood at night with a safety pilot. Some of these places in the West are more sparsely populated and hood time at night will give you about the same feel as in the clouds. (IMHO.) Lots of black, big empty places out here.
I instructed in the SLC area, and it was difficult to get large amounts of safe actual, due to high MEA's & Icing issues associated with this area. I filed IFR where I could and flew under the hood at night with a safety pilot. Some of these places in the West are more sparsely populated and hood time at night will give you about the same feel as in the clouds. (IMHO.) Lots of black, big empty places out here.
The only problem is that my students don't pay me to fly under the hood...
I don't see why a red flag should come up if I fly with a safety pilot? I'm the one under the hood and aside from logging dual given that's the only other legal way, the problem is it will cost me 2-3K rather than me getting paid for the 30h of hood time I need, and at 900/200 that's pretty much all that's missing.
Did all the recent hires at SKW really have 100h of instrument?
I don't see why a red flag should come up if I fly with a safety pilot? I'm the one under the hood and aside from logging dual given that's the only other legal way, the problem is it will cost me 2-3K rather than me getting paid for the 30h of hood time I need, and at 900/200 that's pretty much all that's missing.
Did all the recent hires at SKW really have 100h of instrument?
Lee D
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Hood time w/a safety pilot is OK, & of course flying with a safety pilot is not going to bring up any flags. Plus it might help you save some $$ while you get the needed time. Regardless you must have the 100 hours of instrument time. (Hood time, actual time, and as mentioned above, 20 hrs is allowed from APPROVED simulators. Make sure the SIM has that FAA approved letter on it.) They won't budge on the instrument req.
Personal opinion here; If you can't get actual instrument, try make the time valuable, real world experience. Don't just shoot the same old approaches to the same airport, or fly under the hood to the practice area etc. Rather get into the IFR system and go someplace less familiar and stretch your flying legs. The experience WILL be valuable to you, and appreciated by your captain when you start flying online.
Not to mention during training.