Turbine Time vs. Twin Time

[Polar742]

FWIW, here's my $5.00 on a $.02 request.

You need both ME and Turbo time. Don't ever, ever fall for the "mins" trick. True, some people will get hired with the "mins", but not everyone. And for the foreseeable future, no one will get hired with the "mins".

Instead of the "mins", you need to have "competitive" times. What are "competitive" times you might ask? You only know when you have the "mins", apply, and get called sometime thereafter. There will be one time you update, then shortly afterwards you'll get the interview call. Congrats! You're now competitive!

All that being said, you can look at "weighting" your time. Say you fly a Caravan Pt 135 vs. a BE58 Pt91.

Flying under Part 135 shows you've completed initial and recurrent training, survived multiple checkrides in your equipment, and have proven your systems knowledge on a regular basis.

Flying the BE-58 under Pt 91 shows you have a comm/multi/inst ticket and haven't wrecked.

If you're applying equal operations, say a BE-58 at Airnet and a PC-12 at PlaneSense, then I'd say either or. However, again, at Airnet, you have the opportunity to fly different aircraft types and get multi, and multi turbo on a lear. I don't know much about PlaneSense, but I'm sure if you talk to their pilots you'll find out where they head off too.

So there are many points to look at, should you desire to pursue a professional career.

Remember though, while you're working towards a certain career goal, diverse experience will open many more doors than a series of highly similar jobs.

Best of luck.

 

[Lee D]

Flying under Part 135 shows you've completed initial and recurrent training, survived multiple checkrides in your equipment, and have proven your systems knowledge on a regular basis.

Flying the BE-58 under Pt 91 shows you have a comm/multi/inst ticket and haven't wrecked.

Best of luck.

:laff: Nice!

Generally speaking most regionals are going to want the multi time to start. In many cases if you went to them without any twin, but had single turbine, they would still want the twin. Sounds dumb but many work that way.

Corporate departments may not care as much if you had decent 135 time.

Ideally you would have both! That would certainly help you stand out.

 

[docflyer]

Obviously, take any time you can get your hands on. But if you're sitting on the ramp and can't decide if you want to fly your baron or your PC-12 and you want to fly for Planesense I would go for the PC-12 and the turbine time.

I got hired on at Alpha (Plansense) with about 550 tt, however I had about 150 hrs turbine (PC-12,King Air) with about 75 multi. So if I stay with Alpha, which I probably will, I'll probably make it to the left seat in about a year and a half, PC-12 captain for a couple years, right seat of the Grob for maybe a couple years, then Grob captain. Then maybe the boss will buy the SSBJ and I can move up into that. Anyways, my point is that with Alpha, you'll have the opportunity to move from the single engine turbine pc12 into the multi engine Grob spn jet.

 

[meritflyer]

Obviously, take any time you can get your hands on. But if you're sitting on the ramp and can't decide if you want to fly your baron or your PC-12 and you want to fly for Planesense I would go for the PC-12 and the turbine time.

I got hired on at Alpha (Plansense) with about 550 tt, however I had about 150 hrs turbine (PC-12,King Air) with about 75 multi. So if I stay with Alpha, which I probably will, I'll probably make it to the left seat in about a year and a half, PC-12 captain for a couple years, right seat of the Grob for maybe a couple years, then Grob captain. Then maybe the boss will buy the SSBJ and I can move up into that. Anyways, my point is that with Alpha, you'll have the opportunity to move from the single engine turbine pc12 into the multi engine Grob spn jet.

Check your PM's.