FISHINGOR said:
Rumor has it that during the first hiring event in over a year Flt Ops did very poorly. The pilot and flight attendent hiring was for the 21 day schedule, and ATL domicle. Flt Ops sent out 130 pilot employment offers and only got 10 pilots to accept. Of the 10 pilots 5 did not have ATP's and the other 5 did not have any turbine time. All the 10 pilots did not have min. requirements for Flt Ops. Time will see how many make it to end of training. Bets are that only 4 will make it to the line. Of course all will be SIC's for at least 7-8 years, so those that do stay around that long will make good pilots. Co-pilot for 8 years when regionals are close to 2-3 years at present. PSA is hiring and upgrade time maybe less then 2 years. Company goal was to hire 20 pilots during ATL event. On any day 10-15 airplanes are sitting without crews and they are chartering over $1 million per week. Next hiring event will be Dallas area. Time will tell how many they can hire in Flex's back yard, when Flex is paying more to start. If anyone has a postion flying with regionals stay there and DO NOT MOVE TO FLT OPS. My freinds tell me not a good place to work at present time.
Let me clear up some nonsense in this post.
I am in this class of which you speak.
True-Five of us don't have ATP's, of those who don't we ALL greatly exceed the requirements and have the ATP written completed.
You say that all of us didn't even meet the requirements for FLOPS--this is BS
All have between 2500-3000 hours and a good amount of multi-engine jet or heavy t-prop time.
You say that five of us don't even have any turbine time-that is just simply wrong--all but one have considerable jet experience (except the c-130 driver)
Here is a breakdown of the class-
1 military with almost 2000hrs of C-130 time--some in actual combat.
2-121 Jet FO's
2-135 Lear and Falcon freight dogs, one of which is a dual rated helo pilot and instructor.
1-135 charter pilot who has prior 121 jet experience and who holds a type rating in the GII--yeah, he'll probably wash out.
The other four come from FAR 135 on-demand and have been flying (and typed in such aircraft as the LR-Jet, and BE-400)
Just a hunch, but that sounds like a pretty qualified group of people to me.
We all made it through basic indoctrination just fine and I foresee every one of us to do just fine down at simuflite.
Please get your facts straight rather than posting "rumor."
For the record, I was impressed with the training and feel that everyone was up front with us. Any you know what? If we don't like it then we can LEAVE.
Feel free to ask me any questions regarding anymore "rumor." How about asking me the next time some of your friends give you some more info about the company.