Custom Air for low time

[Lil Jon]

135f8er

"You are still very green, and your farts still smell like breastmilk."
"If your goals are the regionals, I'd save that money because you are gonna need it your first year unless you want to eat spam sandwiches."

first one--so funny
second---sadly true

 

[tired_pilot]

Cat

The vast majority of F/O's at CAT are NOT PFT. CAT may not be the best job around but its not the worst either. From what I heard there is no more PFT direct to the right seat. They will sell you your engineer rating and eventually you'll upgrade to the right seat. I think this was due to a high number of people washing out.
While I dont agree with PFT at all, I dont hold the individuals at fault, its the company. Most of them are just naive on the avaition business. I'm too worried about keeping the job I have and making a career out of the crazy industry. In the long run everything that goes around comes around.

 

[1.3XVso]

Quit!

The problem is that it takes a job away from a qualified pilot that is out of work. What about the furloughed pilots that need to put food on the table? They are trying to make a living, and instead they are on the street while somebody pays to sit right seat.

Take it from a former PFTer that has seen the error of his ways: PFT hurts the industry and hurts the families of qualified pilots that can't get work. When I had 250 hours I didn't see the problem with it either. I plopped down $15k at GIA to get my 121 experience thinking that it was no big deal. Did it work out well for me? Yes, I got a job at Pinnacle because of it. However, while I was paying GIA to fly their planes, other pilots that where already qualified couldn't get that job. I didn't have the benefit of flightinfo to learn how PFT was wrong, but you do. Take the advice from the guys here that are already in the industy: don't PFT.

Then quit! Go instruct for a year or so then apply again.