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airludy said:Yes he would give me the job if he could, but he seriously believes that both pilots need 6,000 JET, not just total. I didnt want to argure. But good luck finding someone to sit right seat in a airplane that you cant even log the time with 6,000 jet...He would have to pay them like 70k a year.. I mean wouldnt you apply to southwest airlines or some good corporate jobs???
fandango said:It would be nice if everyone required some decent time to get a flying job. 6k might be a little much, but not much. Don't mean to rant, I'm just tired of running across the low time guys that have no business being in the seat their in. You cannot replace TT. There is no "conversion factor" for it. I wouldn't want to let a doctor operate on me that only had to do 1/4 the work and experience that others did because he could check a couple of extra boxes.
Wether it be lower mins for mil, quotas, or even preference for degrees, I wouldn't mind seeing this shift.
Please dont slam me and say I only think that because I have my time, pull the ladder up...nothing is further from the truth. Even when I was low time, I was disappointed that things like CFI's didn't need 1000 plus for rating.
Would be a nice change, IMHO.
fandango said:It would be nice if everyone required some decent time to get a flying job. 6k might be a little much, but not much. Don't mean to rant,
I didn't realize that it was up to you to determine who does and does not have any business being in either seat of an aircraft.fandango said:I'm just tired of running across the low time guys that have no business being in the seat their in.
TT does not = experience. Skill and the ability to make sound judgements trump TT. I have flown with low guys that have less than 1000 hours that could fly circle around guys iwth thousands of hours more and I have flown with high TT guys and they had their hands full. I flew with a guy out of the Dallas area that was a DA20 Captain then a H25B captain. He had several thousands of hours, and though he was a OK pilot, he made extremely poor decisions. (Filing for FL350 on a 250 NM trip, always taking no for an answer regardless of the situation, doing dangerous things due to a weak grasp of the aircraft systems). I would not have put my family on a plane with him and I was the guy with least amount of time between the 2 of us, and I had to babysit him!fandango said:You cannot replace TT. There is no "conversion factor" for it. I wouldn't want to let a doctor operate on me that only had to do 1/4 the work and experience that others did because he could check a couple of extra boxes.
How would anyone gain experience or get flight time doing what you suggest? I agree, it would be nice to have a 3ooo hour CFI like you found in the early '90s, but those days are long gone and current day CFIs seem to be getting the job done.fandango said:Wether it be lower mins for mil, quotas, or even preference for degrees, I wouldn't mind seeing this shift. Please dont slam me and say I only think that because I have my time, pull the ladder up...nothing is further from the truth. Even when I was low time, I was disappointed that things like CFI's didn't need 1000 plus for rating. Would be a nice change, IMHO.
English said:It's the typical play, guys...if someone you really don't like keeps asking you to hire them, you just make up imaginary minimums that you know the applicant can't meet, to get out of having to say you don't want to hire the person because you think they are a jerk/look funny/smell funny/etc.
airludy said:Trust me this guy isnt trying to get ride of me.. He is dead serious about those times.
CAVOK69 said:yet the military has 300 hour pilots shooting missilses off of a single pilot jet capable of mach2+... but im sure they don't deserve it b/c of their low time...![]()