Getting an Airline pilot job

[Way2Broke]

Airline training video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_3ttg4YJ1_Y

This is required watching. Cane is a good guy. I hope the writers strike ends so the man can go back to work.

 

[time builder]

Man, these threads can be brutal. I remember posting a few honest questions when I started FI, and they called me a flamer along with a few other things. What can I say, I learned some things from it.

I don't see a minimum experience level for posting, and I could see myself asking a similar question a few yeas ago. So I'll respond seriously.

I'll agree airlinepilotcentral has some good tips. Especially that you should know the airline you're applying for. With multicrew and passengers, its very important to have a personality that people can get along with, with single pilot cargo, that might not be so important.

One airline interview I screwed up by not knowing enough about them. I thought they had a domicile/hub where I was living, turns out they just had a lot of overnighters parked there and a lot of flights throughout the day, but no hub. They seemed kind of turned off at my assumption. Bottom line, knowing who you're applying for shows preparedness, and preparedness is a key issue.

By asking questions on FI, you're showing that you are looking for this kind of information, and I really wish people would stop bashing on people for showing their inexperience.

 

[pilotyip]

It will take you approximately 10 years to get to a job that will allow you to start making QOL a goal in your job search. Pilots get hired at good places because they have Turbine PIC, you must build turbine PIC to have control over your career. You have to go wherever that job is that gets you turbine PIC. You stay in that job until you can get another job that gives you better turbine PIC, i.e. Bigger airplanes, Turbojet, 121, etc. It is called paying your dues everyone must do it. Some do it in the military, some do it at the regionals, and some do in the on-demand business. Everyone pays his or her dues.

 

[no1pilot2000]

Crap answers

I am trying to get some answers and all I get is **************************************** who can't give an honest answers.

 

[say again]

I am trying to get some answers and all I get is **************************************** who can't give an honest answers.

I know they do not like profanity!!!:beer:

 

[FirstMate]

This might be the roughest, most brutal bunch of humans on the internet today.

And sexually frustrated.

 

[John Pennekamp]

And sexually frustrated.

Not all of us...

 

[Future Furlough]

And sexually frustrated.

That's what the knee pads and lube is for. Oh wait, that's a different thread.:laugh:

 

[Amish RakeFight]

...were you the number 1 pilot in the year 2000? :erm:

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Here's your answer:

How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act.

 

[PRINCE AKEEM]

laughing. Ok here it is.. you want to be a major airline pilot like Air tran or Southwest. Ok the 2nd would work but Airtrash.... OMG PLEASE..
You want to get into the airline industry with your hours. hmm try Crapwater (chititaco,qua), they will take anyone with a heart beat. Hell you don't even need your ratings.. just go to them now and tell the chief pilot you will shine his shoes.. he will hire you today.

All be it a stretch to compare AirTran to SWA as a true "major," you should really realize where you are currently at before running your mouth.

ps. The attached mins...do they look familiar?
Shhhhhhhh...

Minimums: 500TT/50ME or 300TT/25ME for those with advanced jet training

 

[Amish RakeFight]

All be it a stretch to compare AirTran to SWA as...

For edification, its "albeit."

 

[Flyer1015]

I know of a flight instructor who would like to apply for a job at a regional airline with the intention of some day becoming a pilot for a major airline such as Southwest or Airtran. Other than flying experience, what other traits or qualities do recruiters at the various airlines look for in an individual who applies to their airline?

1. Gel-spiked hair (additional points awarded for frosted tips)

2. Backpack

3. IPod

 

[rumpletumbler]

1. Gel-spiked hair (additional points awarded for frosted tips)

2. Backpack

3. IPod

I hear this so much. I really hope I don't ever see some zero as above that's about to be a crew member on an aircraft I'm on. It would be very difficult for me not to get off and I most likely would. I hope they are provided with some sort of changing room far from public view. The real question I guess would be how do they slip through the hiring process and then once hired why are they allowed to shame their employers/the airline/humanity?

 

[pilotyip]

Because

. The real question I guess would be how do they slip through the hiring process and then once hired why are they allowed to shame their employers/the airline/humanity?

Because they are the only one available with over 500TT time that will work for those wages and can be in the next class. Simple economics, redefined competitive mins are breathing and comm./ME/Inst with the ink wet. I have heard in some cases you can be hired without a comm./me/inst if you promise to have one by the time class starts.

 

[rumpletumbler]

Wow. I wish I could take the pay cut and get on board. I've got just over 500 and like 125 of that is multi. I couldn't imagine being remotely competitive with ASA (I say ASA because I live in the Atlanta area) or someone like that with those times. I haven't flown in 2 years though. That wouldn't bode well I'm sure.