What are you doing now? If you get furloughed due to the economy, etc., you still will have recall rights at most places, so unless you're building jet/turboprop time now, I'd say go for it. If you hesitate, it'll put you farther behind your peers.
That's a different problem then. If I were you, I'd stay put and get 1000 TPIC. Then, you can look at the landscape and see where to go from there.
That's a different problem then. If I were you, I'd stay put and get 1000 TPIC. Then, you can look at the landscape and see where to go from there.
Having said all that, I have no clue what I'm doing, and am still trying to get called up to the majors, so ymmv.
Edit: SE or ME turboprop? If it's a single, it's again a different story. I have almost 1000 PIC caravan, and most of the jobs I'm looking at are looking for METPIC, so it depends on where you want to go.
Says the guy who's had pretty damned good timing in his career.
Says the guy who's had pretty damned good timing in his career.
OP, as of right now, if you're looking for boxes, ME-TPIC is king. I have over 6500TT, 1500 JPIC, 2485 TPIC (985 Turbine Suburban time), and am still trying to get hired on to the career destination.
What the future holds, only time will tell. You have to look at the info in front of you and make the best decision for you, your career, and your family.
Best of luck, no matter what you decide. When you're looking at K4, I'll probably be the grumpy old captain you're flying with.
I remember the time vividly...i got out of aviation because of it. I refused to buy my interview and training. That was when PFT was running rampant after you had 2500TT. Ah, the good old days.Because I didn’t try to time it. When I got out of college, many of my classmates were “eff THIS noise” because Pan Am and TWA were dead and you were competing, still, with Eastern pilots for CFI jobs, I got hired at a commuter that was considered a backwoods podunk airline in the middle of the frigid Midwest where my counterparts were waiting for Skywest and WestAir and eventually got hired at an airline where everyone said I’d be a B-scale 727 flight engineer for a decade.
Very little of what I did made any sense at the time, but luckily, it worked out really well.
...so far...
Yup, the good old days. Kids these days have no clue!
Imagine CC's butthurt over those kinds of calls and shenanigans. I have a hard time wrapping my head around this. So this PFT thing was very commonplace at the regional/commuter level during the 90’s/early 2000’s? It’s unbelievable of how much the landscape has changed in the last 2 decades. I’ve heard people bring this up from time to time in conversation, but now I’m starting to think this was widespread in the industry then.Yup, the good old days. Kids these days have no clue!
All of these guys Derg's and my age, almost guaranteed, paid for training. It was rampant in the industry. It was very hard to avoid...like I said, I actually got out of the industry because of it. Derg found a good spot, and I commend him for his progress, and this site. It's made my transition back into aviation almost 20 years ago much easier.
Back in the day, most regionals were 135. I never looked into the check hauler 135's because I wanted to go airline, but from what I remember, it was build to 1500tt at least, get hired by single pilot 135 ops, build up to 2500tt for the regionals and make $19k per year, after PFT. That pay didn't change for almost 20 years, sadly.
