gkrangers,
At the time, I didn't consider Pinnacle an option, but technically, I might have been able to. But considering that ASA or Air Wisco didn't call, who the hell knows if CAPT ever even sent my resumes in.
TheBigPicture,
I had the highest time because I walked into CAPT with 170.7 hours before hand. I then flew C152 outside of the program to add more time to the measly 225 hours that they give you. So I worked hard to build time. What's wrong with that? The delays in training was due to their mismanagement and incompentence. They promised full time training with flight and academic classes and potentially weekends. The weekend thing never materialized while I was training. As for full time training, well, I can recall having ONE class for 2-3 hours for the day and that's it! With all the bullsh!t classes they wanted you to take like Aviation History and Human Factors (which could have been combined with their CRM class because for the most part the materials they gave us is one of the same), etc. it really slowed things down. They had instructor shortage and equipment shortage, along with the weather issues which, for some reason, these FL folk didn't factor into their timeline is beyond me. Oh, and for our advanced avionics course, we had 4 different instructors teaching us the same exact thing and not covering everything. So that took 2 additional weeks (3 weeks total for a one week course) because they couldn't figure out who taught what and when we got the final exam, we all looked at each other like where did all this astrolabe questions, etc. come from.
V-Stall,
I wasn't too good for anyone. Frankly, I wasn't 100% confident about my training at CAPT because they pushed us through just so that they can get their reports to look good. I had some problems with some training and I asked for help. Their response: "you'll do better next lesson". That is, until the lessons ran out and I probably scraped by. So no, I don't feel like I'm better than anyone. They only had something set up with ASA, Pinnacle, and Focus Air at the time of graduation. And they certainly weren't "guaranteed interviews." A guaranteed interview to me is, when I graduate, someone at ASA interviews me within the month. I don't give a crap if they NEVER get back to me or flat out tell me no. Give me my frackin' guaranteed interview. The fact is, there was really never anything set up between CAPT and these airlines for anything that resembled guaranteed interviews. ASA and Pinnacle needed pilots, and here was a source for them to get pilots. Because at the end, the airlines decided if they wanted to interview or not. Where's the guarantee in that? I could have trained ANYWHERE and submitted my resume to them like everyone else to get that treatment. I didn't need to drop all that money into CAPT with hopes that CAPT likes me and does me the inside favor. Because clearly there's favoritism at CAPT, not professionalism or ethical business practices. They were more concerned about their face in the eyes of the airlines and wanted to you to know they got your balls in their hands. Who knew going in? I certainly didn't. I just saw an opportunity to get in the flying career quick because I'm not in my 20's and age is a factor.
I don't know who COEX is and I've never heard of them while I was at CAPT. I still don't know who they are. I'm not quite sure where this COEX came from but I went through CAPT, I think I know what options were available to me. And again, I didn't go knocking down Pinnacle's door not because of any other reason than the fact that NWA was having major issues.
