Pinnacle Lowers Upgrade Times

[machaf]

Hot off the press.

3500TT

Reduced to:

2500TT if you have 1000 hours at Pinnacle.

Within the next 60-90 days they will start a mentoring program. Where the FO must fly with a specific captain and be reccomended for upgrade. This lowers it to 2000TT if you have 1500 hours at Pinnacle.

Discuss...

 

[Amish RakeFight]

What are their hirng projections for the rest of the year?

 

[slackass]

With Pinnacles safety record this is reassuring.

 

[ratherbeflyen]

This lowers it to 2000TT if you have 1500 hours at Pinnacle.

Who got hired at 500 hours?

 

[Rook]

Are you asking who on this msg board?

I trained lots of the 250TT guys.

 

[HOURBUILDER]

where did you get that info from?

 

[DoinTime]

Hot off the press.

3500TT

Reduced to:

2500TT if you have 1000 hours at Pinnacle.

Within the next 60-90 days they will start a mentoring program. Where the FO must fly with a specific captain and be reccomended for upgrade. This lowers it to 2000TT if you have 1500 hours at Pinnacle.

Discuss...

This is still a proposal.

 

[Ridgeback]

Northwest shouldn't walk away with doing buisness with 9E, they sould RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will no-longer feel safe putting my family on 9E, however I am still forced to jumpseat on them. I'm not joking when I say I am increasing my life insurance.

 

[Longhorn]

I am not one to make comments about PCL since I have many friends still there but WTF are they thinking lowering the mins for upgrade? In any other circumstances I would not think about it too much but after the 410 accident, the MKE inncident and now the TVC deal, you would think that lowering or even proposing to lower the mins for upgrade would be a bad idea for PR and in general. All three situations above were directly related to lack of experience in the plane one way or another. The 410 accident, the fo had very little time overall and the ca did not have much time as a CA there, I knew both very well. The MKE situation, the same thing adn TVL, while the CA was a LCA the FO had less then 25 hours in the plane. You would think that experience would be the #1 priority for the company to look at and protect....and what do they do, they propose to lower the upgrade times. It is trouble waiting to happen...again :erm:

 

[shortbus driver]

I disagree

The reasoning behind dropping mins I am not a fan of. They do it because they need people. This means they need people to upgrade. However, I do think there are a select few that have the discipline of captain at a lower time and it seems foolish to make them wait.

HOWEVER, i do think there are many who do not deserve the upgrade and it should be much more selective. I do think that a 2,995 hour pilot seems to be about as qualified as a 3000 hour guy. Now I know thats not a great example but it shows that there should not be an exact number.
In reality what do I know I am just some idiot cargo guy stuck in a jet listening to the guys I fly with trying to learn instead of just log time