Fork in the road

[Swerpipe]

sounds very familiar

I had the same decision to make a couple of years ago. I chose the PIC timeand I am still getting it. To add to what STOPNTSing advised you, I asked a SWA chief pilot after getting my SWA time minimums if I should go with a Regional or take an offer to fly a Hawker as a Captain and the chief pilot advised me to definitely take the Hawker job. He said SWA values PIC jet time way above having the 121 experience. Good luck to you...

 

[Ty Webb]

I think this thread just goes to show that there is no true path. We all make the best choices we can based upon the info we have availaible. A lot of it is just luck and timing.

Good luck to all . . . . .We all do the best we can and hope it works out for the best for all of us.

IAHERJ, I am not knocking it, so much as I am trying to say that there is definitely another way. I wouldn't change mine, sounds like you wouldn't change yours, either.

There is no shame in being turned down by COEX; at my interview, the "worldly" 26 year-old EMB-120 skipper was more concerned with the issue of why I didn't apply when they were PFT than what experience/qualifications I had to bring to COEX on that day in 1999. May have been just a fluke, but left me with a negative impression of COEX that may never change.

Not trying to slam COEX, just show a side of it that our erstwhile King Air skipper may have not contemplated yet.

 

[General Lee]

Ty,

So, you got turned down by COEX and MIDEX? Third time is a charm I guess.... You are a lucky man now.....

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[WhiteCloud]

There is no shame in being turned down by COEX; at my interview, the "worldly" 26 year-old EMB-120 skipper was more concerned with the issue of why I didn't apply when they were PFT than what experience/qualifications I had to bring to COEX on that day in 1999. May have been just a fluke, but left me with a negative impression of COEX that may never change.

I was asked that once. My answer (that worked) was that I considered PFT a bribe to hire me over the next guy and that wasn't the kind of relationship I wanted to have with an employer. At least at that panel they were looking for a straight answer. Who knows what another panel might have thought?

 

[Ty Webb]

Ty,

So, you got turned down by COEX and MIDEX? Third time is a charm I guess.... You are a lucky man now.....

Bye Bye--General Lee

I guess technically I did get turned down by Midex, but none of the guys in my interview group got an offer. I don't think they ever had another newhire class after us . . . I sure don't take it personally.

Yeah, you bet I feel lucky. Funny thing about that story is that I caught a ride on AirTran to get to a Midex city (for the Midex interview), and the AirTran guys convinced me to update my stuff with AirTran . . . . which I did when I got home from the Midex interview.