Captain upgrade question

[Kiwi]

Giday

I am running a general survey on what other corp operators minimum requirements are for a command upgrade. Do you have them?

We are Operating a Falcon internationally.

Is it more common to have two captains or a captain and a Co Pilot?

If you have two capatins what minimum jet time would you require/recommend for an upgrade from first officer.

Any comments would be appreciated as we are trying to produce a company policy for our operations manual.

 

[2EASYPilot]

We operate with two captains...when a new pilot is hired he is immediately typed but retains the title as first officer for six months to a year. Once we are comfortable with his skill set ( hopefully soon) we start switching legs at the captains discretion. At the of this period he or she is promoted to captain (title) and given a raise. The reason I say two captains is we currently have no first officers but given the experience level of the pilots we hire they would all be quite capable of operating as a captain at hire if they were experienced in our types. This probationary period is really a chance to learn our internal (aviation and the companys) processes....hope this helps.

 

[Kiwi]

I'm happy with the skill set requirements it's the "other" stuff.

If you are a small operation should a person be kept as a co pilot who

A) Has the flying ability but

B) Does not have the operations experience - non flying duties.

I'm talking about a two pilot operation here.

2EASY i'd be interested to know your average experience of new hires - TT and Jet time - would you hire someone with no PIC on a jet?

We will be looking for a relief driver soon.

 

[G100driver]

I think the real question as to his/her title should be the following:

If you are sick, have a family emergency, or on vacation what is the compacity of the other pilot? Do you a hire a contractor to be PIC or do release the airplane to the other pilot?

If you answered yes to the latter then he/she is a captain and needs to be comensated as such.

This was the logic that we used when hiring another pilot (catain BTW)

Hope this helps. Good luck.

 

[G100driver]

2EASY i'd be interested to know your average experience of new hires - TT and Jet time - would you hire someone with no PIC on a jet?

We will be looking for a relief driver soon.

With a 2 pilot operation NO.

If you want quality of life ... see previous post, you cannot do this with an inexpirenced pilot.

I have led programs with both, trust me, go with expirence. You and yor boss will feel much better.

 

[Kiwi]

Thanks for your replies folks.

For those of you who are sending me PMs. we are located in New Zealand and we would only accept a PART TIME position.

We currently have a relief driver.

When anything more permanant comes up I will certainly let you know.

I am more interested in your replies regarding my first question above.