hindsight2020
Yeah Buddy
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- Oct 14, 2004
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As a low-time dude, I was wondering what you folks consider a nominal amount of flight time a year (or monthly however you want to look at it) as a bum before you'd consider a regional job.
Reason I ask is we got a 2 yr upgrade at the unit (presently flight time independent), so depending on how much PIC one gets from that point it could be potentially 5 years before I would be competitive for a carrier of interest. As much as the thought of first year regional FO keeps me up at night, I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket by attempting to bum for that long of a time, or have a full time job locally to never materialize, and now I've foregone 5 year seniority somewhere else (probably holding CA by then).
I know the best scenario would have been to get on with said regional before going to UPT, but that wasn't an option back then (no hours for it) so I'm presented with the current scenario. I'd still commute from the squadron city if I were to consider it (yep, commute to rsv = suck), just wondering what's your cutoff point hours-wise at the unit before it'd be worthwhile getting that seniority number at a regional. Thanks
Reason I ask is we got a 2 yr upgrade at the unit (presently flight time independent), so depending on how much PIC one gets from that point it could be potentially 5 years before I would be competitive for a carrier of interest. As much as the thought of first year regional FO keeps me up at night, I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket by attempting to bum for that long of a time, or have a full time job locally to never materialize, and now I've foregone 5 year seniority somewhere else (probably holding CA by then).
I know the best scenario would have been to get on with said regional before going to UPT, but that wasn't an option back then (no hours for it) so I'm presented with the current scenario. I'd still commute from the squadron city if I were to consider it (yep, commute to rsv = suck), just wondering what's your cutoff point hours-wise at the unit before it'd be worthwhile getting that seniority number at a regional. Thanks