Goose17
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I flew with a very senior captain yesterday that recently went into an ACP (Assistant Chief Pilot) to promote a pilot candidate. The captain passed on some usefull information:
The ACPs meet once per month and each is allowed to recommend 5 pilot nominees. This is an important note since most of the packages end up on the 727 S/O, 727 F/O, and DC-10 S/O ACP's desk. Actually, the 727 S/O ACP gets the most, yet he is still only allowed 5 recommendations for hiring. The widebody captain ACP's only occasionally get a pilot package and thus when a pilot applicant gets his package to a widebody captain ACP, he leapfrogs all the other candidates. The ACP that was passing along this info simply said; "Rank has it's priviledges."
The very senior captain mentioned above, got the pilot candidate hired in only a couple months. Whereas a 727 S/O pulling for his buddy might take many, many months.
Moral of the story; if you can somehow get your packet on the desk of a more senior ACP, you time from recommendation to hired will be dramatically shorter. Also, if you have multiple guys recommending you, get the most senior guy to run your package in.
Hope this helps everyone.
Goose17
The ACPs meet once per month and each is allowed to recommend 5 pilot nominees. This is an important note since most of the packages end up on the 727 S/O, 727 F/O, and DC-10 S/O ACP's desk. Actually, the 727 S/O ACP gets the most, yet he is still only allowed 5 recommendations for hiring. The widebody captain ACP's only occasionally get a pilot package and thus when a pilot applicant gets his package to a widebody captain ACP, he leapfrogs all the other candidates. The ACP that was passing along this info simply said; "Rank has it's priviledges."
The very senior captain mentioned above, got the pilot candidate hired in only a couple months. Whereas a 727 S/O pulling for his buddy might take many, many months.
Moral of the story; if you can somehow get your packet on the desk of a more senior ACP, you time from recommendation to hired will be dramatically shorter. Also, if you have multiple guys recommending you, get the most senior guy to run your package in.
Hope this helps everyone.
Goose17