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While I agree in spirit against the paying for your own type rating idea, I'll try to post a little more helpfully.
Falcon Air Express is a Part 121 operation out of MIA with good people, bad pay. They're starting F/E an F/O pay is about the same as most regionals, and starting CA pay (first year) is $36,000. Yes, I'm not kidding. Second year goes to like $45k, then $50k, then about $2k to $3k pay raises a year. In essence, it sucks.
Because of that, they're having a hard time filling their classes and their people are bailing to the other decent-paying 727 operators (Transmeridian, etc). Additionally, the 727 is cost-prohibitive to RVSM equip and RVSM is coming in the next year (it's already been pushed back 3 times and now that traffic is up, the skies are full again and the push for RVSM is back on), so these aircraft will quickly become history over U.S. skies, so you'd be buying a type that will be useless inside of half a decade unless you want to fly out of Cambodia and Africa for a career (they were banned in Europe nearly 5 years ago).
A 727 type rating is cool on my certificate, but the point that many of us make is that if people don't buy the type, the company will have to eventually pony up the money for it and scams like this will disappear. Be very careful unless you just have $6,000 or so to burn and don't give a sh*t about crappy pay after forking over money like that.
Falcon Air Express is a Part 121 operation out of MIA with good people, bad pay. They're starting F/E an F/O pay is about the same as most regionals, and starting CA pay (first year) is $36,000. Yes, I'm not kidding. Second year goes to like $45k, then $50k, then about $2k to $3k pay raises a year. In essence, it sucks.
Because of that, they're having a hard time filling their classes and their people are bailing to the other decent-paying 727 operators (Transmeridian, etc). Additionally, the 727 is cost-prohibitive to RVSM equip and RVSM is coming in the next year (it's already been pushed back 3 times and now that traffic is up, the skies are full again and the push for RVSM is back on), so these aircraft will quickly become history over U.S. skies, so you'd be buying a type that will be useless inside of half a decade unless you want to fly out of Cambodia and Africa for a career (they were banned in Europe nearly 5 years ago).
A 727 type rating is cool on my certificate, but the point that many of us make is that if people don't buy the type, the company will have to eventually pony up the money for it and scams like this will disappear. Be very careful unless you just have $6,000 or so to burn and don't give a sh*t about crappy pay after forking over money like that.
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