Captain metorship program at Pinnacle

[1900dr]

Anyone at Pinnacle care to help me understand the captain mentorship program? my questions are as follows:

If I have 2700 TT (lots of turbine and some corporate jet) and came to Pinnacle how soon can I see upgrade.

Even with the seniority, would I still have to wait to upgrade behind lets say a 1000TT time FO?

lets say I start as an FO and after 1 year I up grade through the mentorship program do I get 1st or 2nd year captain pay.

Thanks for the responses.

 

[silver02ex]

Talk to your base manager or the training dept. at the CEC. I'm sure someone can give you some answer.

 

[flyf15]

Sounds to me like he doesn't work for Pinnacle (yet).

Is Pinnacle still doing the "mostly" street captain thing? Or is that overwith now that the industry is falling like a rock?

 

[silver02ex]

Sounds to me like he doesn't work for Pinnacle (yet).

Is Pinnacle still doing the "mostly" street captain thing? Or is that overwith now that the industry is falling like a rock?

I read his post again, and I think you're right. The street CA is over (based on the last award) most junior CA on the last award was about May-June 06 hire.

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Anyone at Pinnacle care to help me understand the captain mentorship program? my questions are as follows:

If I have 2700 TT (lots of turbine and some corporate jet) and came to Pinnacle how soon can I see upgrade.

Even with the seniority, would I still have to wait to upgrade behind lets say a 1000TT time FO?

lets say I start as an FO and after 1 year I up grade through the mentorship program do I get 1st or 2nd year captain pay.

Thanks for the responses.

Are you from Gulfstream Academy?

 

[regionaltard]

They're hiring street Captains for the Metro at Pinnacle?

 

[Lazy8]

These are the current upgrade requirements:

Regular minumums
3500 TT, 2000 Multi, 1000 Turbine

Reduceable to without the mentor program:
2500 TT, 1500 Multi, 500 Turbine

Reduceable to with the mentor program:
2000 TT, 1500 Multi, 500 Turbine

Also you must have a minimum of 1800 hours before starting the mentor program.

Hopefully this clears the confusion. Keep in mind Pinnacle can change the requirements at any time. Also Pinnacle is not currently hiring street captains. If you're lucky you can upgrade shortly after FO training(they say you need 100 hours minimum as FO before upgrade), but if we have some kind of slow-down, consolidation or worse then you might be sitting in the right seat a while. Things change fast!

 

[DoinTime]

I read his post again, and I think you're right. The street CA is over (based on the last award) most junior CA on the last award was about May-June 06 hire.

The last vacancy (08-06) had four CRJ-200 captain positions unfilled. Three for DTW and one for MEM.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Does this include, briefing on how to make the 410 club?
PBR

 

[Caboclo]

The last vacancy (08-06) had four CRJ-200 captain positions unfilled. Three for DTW and one for MEM.

Does that mean that the last upgrade class they ran was last August? If there were 4 unfilled positions in it, why haven't they run a class since?