And so the deal with the Eagle interview is....

[Goose Egg]

I work at Eagle, less then a year now and have ORD as my base. As of today there are 74 people bidding below me in ORD, I have been on reserve for 15 days exactly. I have not worked a weekend day since March, I have not been junior manned once, extended only twice(and both times were short turns), they do not call me on my days off, people are very friendly, the upgrade time is dropping dramatically, overall there is no where else I would want to work, if you want ORD, look at SKW also, I have heard nothing but good things about them also. If you want anymore info from someone who works there shoot me a PM and I can answer any other questions that you might have.

Will definitely do... How was you interview? Applying today or tomorrow.

-Goose

 

[Popeye0537]

In your opinion why would express jet be better then Eagle. And why laugh about it now? I believe that the original poster said that he wanted to work at Eagle.

I laugh at it now because Majors are giving away all the flying to the lower cost regionals, and trying to sell off all the assets. AMR has been looking for someone to sell Eagle to for years, they are just too expensive. Comair,ASA,Mesaba...need I say more?

Any place is better than Eagle right now, you have been with Eagle for 1 year and your still on reserve not flying.....unless you plan on making Eagle your career your not doing much to further yourself. Its cool to say you only work 50hrs a month, but that is SIC time that nobody wants and your upgrade time on the CRJ is running 6+ years. At that rate it will take you 9 years to go to Southwest or UPS. I have a friend who has been there since Feb 04 and he's still looking at another year or two to upgrade.

Goose if I were your I would look as Skywest, you could hold ORD on the crj, from what I hear it's a junior base. Upgrade is running two to three years and you will have more choices once you've got your turbine PIC time.

 

[siucavflight]

I laugh at it now because Majors are giving away all the flying to the lower cost regionals, and trying to sell off all the assets. AMR has been looking for someone to sell Eagle to for years, they are just too expensive. Comair,ASA,Mesaba...need I say more?

Any place is better than Eagle right now, you have been with Eagle for 1 year and your still on reserve not flying.....unless you plan on making Eagle your career your not doing much to further yourself. Its cool to say you only work 50hrs a month, but that is SIC time that nobody wants and your upgrade time on the CRJ is running 6+ years. At that rate it will take you 9 years to go to Southwest or UPS. I have a friend who has been there since Feb 04 and he's still looking at another year or two to upgrade.

Goose if I were your I would look as Skywest, you could hold ORD on the crj, from what I hear it's a junior base. Upgrade is running two to three years and you will have more choices once you've got your turbine PIC time.

Still on reserve not flying? Did you read my first post, I only sat on reserve for 15 days, and that is because when I finished up IOE it was too late to bid that month. I fly four days a week, no weekends and average about 87 hours a month. I suggest that you do a better job of reading. No one wants my SIC time? Really you mean that NetJets, FlexJet, Flight Ops could care less? Really?

 

[Metro752]

Still on reserve not flying? Did you read my first post, I only sat on reserve for 15 days, and that is because when I finished up IOE it was too late to bid that month. I fly four days a week, no weekends and average about 87 hours a month. I suggest that you do a better job of reading. No one wants my SIC time? Really you mean that NetJets, FlexJet, Flight Ops could care less? Really?

Ya dat SIC is very valuable today. Spirit too.

 

[siucavflight]

Ya dat SIC is very valuable today. Spirit too.

My point being that turbine SIC time is not useless. Would I like to make CA in 15 months like Skywest? Yes, I came to eagle for many things, one of them was the very quickly declining time to the left seat? Will it work out for me? Only time will tell. In aviation there is only one time that you can decide if you made the right career moves, and that is the day you retire, things change to fast in this industry.

 

[Metro752]

K my brain is melting in laredo waiting for freight, i was agreeing with you 100%

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[Popeye0537]

Net jets, Flex, Flight Ops....if your thing is doing the 135 gig why did you come to the 121 world. Fly a twin, get your SIC time in a kingair and move up. And yes, SIC time is useless. Let me know when you get a call from any of those places( not gonna happen) including Spirit. That is unless you know someone then that changes everyting.

I read your post, and I'm givin goose a heads up of what reserve life is like when you don't have people below you. Reserve SUCKS. 2 hour call out, not knowing your schedule from week to week let alone day to day. Reserve are only given 11 to 12 hard days off....you may not work, but I don't consider it a day off when your on call.

 

[Goose Egg]

On an unrelated note, this is like my first thread ever to go over one page. That's cool, at least...

On a related note, I'm planning on applying to both Eagle and SkyWest (probably both tomorrow!!), so we'll see what happens. The SLC base would be the absolute best for me (because that's home), but to be honest, $19/hr isn't really anything to get excited about, and I'd be willing to commute from SLC to ORD to get $24 (7 or 8 direct flights per day between the two cities, with nothing really better to do except ski or ride my bike, which I can only do a couple hours at a time anyway...) And I definitely see myself going from regional to a frac anyway, so I might as well make enough money to get some savings along the way. Turbine PIC is imprortant, but I guess I'm not really expecting to get it at the regional level. If you asked me what my dream job would be, I'd have to answer that it would be flying a King Air 200 as an EMS pilot, that is if I could find something that paid enough to support a family, so I'll be keeping my eye open for something like that too. I just figure that the regionals are hiring and a source of income and flight time... better than instructing anyway.

Besides, just because I put in a resume somewhere, it doesn't mean they are going to call. It's pretty likely right now, but it's not a definite thing. And just because they call, it doesn't mean they are going to hire. I'm just hedging my bets and keeping my options open.

-Goose

 

[Metro752]

Skywest dood, if you really got 1000+, that or USA JETski!

 

[Goose Egg]

Skywest dood, if you really got 1000+, that or USA JETski!

7 hours shy of 1200, actually, although 172 of that is glider time, which I think SKW only counts half of. That still puts me over 1000 though. Don't worry, I'm applying to SKW today.

-Goose

 

[siucavflight]

Net jets, Flex, Flight Ops....if your thing is doing the 135 gig why did you come to the 121 world. Fly a twin, get your SIC time in a kingair and move up. And yes, SIC time is useless. Let me know when you get a call from any of those places( not gonna happen) including Spirit. That is unless you know someone then that changes everyting.

I read your post, and I'm givin goose a heads up of what reserve life is like when you don't have people below you. Reserve SUCKS. 2 hour call out, not knowing your schedule from week to week let alone day to day. Reserve are only given 11 to 12 hard days off....you may not work, but I don't consider it a day off when your on call.

Fractional/corporate is my thing, 121 was the quickest way to built a bunch of time fast. NetJets I do have connections, FlexJet still called me back without connections and I will be interviewing there in August.
I understand what reserve is like, fortunatly at Eagle/ORD there is no reserve.

 

[Goose Egg]

Fractional/corporate is my thing, 121 was the quickest way to built a bunch of time fast. NetJets I do have connections, FlexJet still called me back without connections and I will be interviewing there in August.
I understand what reserve is like, fortunatly at Eagle/ORD there is no reserve.

App is in at Eagle... No reserve at ORD sounds awesome!! I'd love to do the frac thing too. I'll let you know if I have any questions.

-Goose

 

[siucavflight]

App is in at Eagle... No reserve at ORD sounds awesome!! I'd love to do the frac thing too. I'll let you know if I have any questions.

-Goose

Cool, hope I can be of some help. Despite what a few of the people say here you will really love working at Eagle. The people who work here are all pretty happy with the job. The people who dont all have a lot of opinions, but you know what they say about opinions.
In addition to no reserve, I am sitting at home, off today, tomorrow monday tuesday. Cant beat that, and it leaves me plenty of time to fly the C-650 Monday and Tuesday for 450 a day!

 

[Steve]

Cool, hope I can be of some help. Despite what a few of the people say here you will really love working at Eagle. The people who work here are all pretty happy with the job. The people who dont all have a lot of opinions, but you know what they say about opinions.
In addition to no reserve, I am sitting at home, off today, tomorrow monday tuesday. Cant beat that, and it leaves me plenty of time to fly the C-650 Monday and Tuesday for 450 a day!

Does Eagle allow outside flying? Do you have to speak with the CP about that?

 

[Goose Egg]

FWIW, app in at SKW too...

I guess I'll let you guys know what happens. Keep your fingers crossed!

-Goose