CAL Flight Time Reqs.

[waterskier]

ATL AirInc. seminar was told by CAL that you needed 500 of JET PIC time to be considered by CAL.

Odd part is I know of several guys that have been hired there with no JET PIC (just a bunch of JET SIC)or even an ATP... Guess they had great LOR?

Any thoughts?

 

[CA1900]

I personally know 3 people who started with CAL in the past six months, and not one of them had PIC time in anything bigger than a Beech 1900, and had zero jet time (let alone PIC).

Unless the requirements have changed recently, I think the recruiter was in error.

 

[hotwing]

This is what people are being told now, as the hiring has supposedly changed... I have not seen it in writing, but a candidate was just told this recently that another CAL pilot buddy was pushing for an interview with recruiting...

 

[waterskier]

Well I guess I will just be scheduling's best friend, and beg for more trips.... I so can't wait to get to a real airline....

 

[nathan jesup]

Anyone else have credible information that CAL is going to require 500 JET PIC? I was at the ATL AirInc conference as well, and the recruiter advised that I stay at my current job (turboprop captain/check airman), and since I have a good internal LOR, I'll probably hear something from CAL within six months or so.

I'm tired of getting stirred up over every rumor, but the situation has happened to me before where I stayed at a company based off what a recruiter at AirInc told me, and it proved to be inaccurate information. It's hard to plan career progression when the requirements keep changing.

 

[Phrogs4ever]

Maybe someone got it confused with the 500 jet sic with 500 pic anything requirement. Last I heard was the acceptance rate from the interviews has steadily gone down. I can't imagine that the requirements, even the unwritten ones, would go up.

 

[bearcat]

This really isn't all that cosmic....it is 1000 PIC or 500 PIC turbine and 500 SIC.....the 1000 PIC is not a turbine requirement.


1,500 hours fixed-wing total flight time
1,000 hours fixed-wing PIC time, or 500 hours PIC time and 500 hours SIC time in a turbojet
1,000 hours fixed-wing turbine time
1,000 hours fixed-wing multi-engine time (civilian or military) or 1,000 hours single-engine military fighter jet time
A current ATP written exam
A current first class FAA medical
A current passport
A Bachelor's degree is highly desired

 

[Phrogs4ever]

This really isn't all that cosmic....it is 1000 PIC or 500 PIC turbine and 500 SIC.....the 1000 PIC is not a turbine requirement.


1,500 hours fixed-wing total flight time
1,000 hours fixed-wing PIC time, or 500 hours PIC time and 500 hours SIC time in a turbojet
1,000 hours fixed-wing turbine time
1,000 hours fixed-wing multi-engine time (civilian or military) or 1,000 hours single-engine military fighter jet time
A current ATP written exam
A current first class FAA medical
A current passport
A Bachelor's degree is highly desired

...and yet even you messed it up. Using the 500/500 requirement, the 500 PIC does not have to be turbine and the 500 SIC does have to be JET (not just turbine). This is only in lieu of the 1,000 FW PIC requirement, the rest of the mins listed will still have to be met.

 

[waterskier]

See this is what I thought, but aparantly they are reading the 500 PIC and 500 SIC as both having to be turbine.... Doesn't really matter what they write, but what they do.

Kind of makes sence if you think about it... if you don't have 1000 hr. PIC, they will let you by if you have 500hr of Jet PIC and 500 Hr of Jet SIC..

 

[turbinej]

That is what they are posting on the application 500/500. I have been told by people that have tried to recommend people that the CP's are telling everyone 500 jet pic. The only way that they are waiving that is is you have a father or relative that is a pilot with CAL. I also have heard a couple get hired without Degrees.

 

[AWACoff]

Depending on who your sponsor's CP is, the mins may be even higher. My sponsor's CP specifically wanted a minimum of 1000 PIC Turbojet. Another CP that looked at my stuff was happy with 500 PIC Turbojet but it wasn't his call put my stuff in the short stack.