Army and Fixed wing...
46 Driver is correct that the army is really the wrong place to look for a fixed wing slot. We call it the fixed wing multi engine qual course and its done by FSI on contract. Although slots have doubled in the past year, I'm not buying into the 5 year active duty contract just to take the course with NO guarantee that I will actually fly a C-12 afterwards... Hell, they are not letting gun guys go to the course and fly C-12s much nowadays.
Right now I'm looking at the freight - 135 arena to build time. I'll have the IFR 135 mins met and maybe I'll check out AirNet and some others (Will save that question for another day). I still think that PFT in the regional community is seen worse than it would be seen in most other job markets and I can appreciate that. I'm glad uncle sugar won't let me go for another 11 months (not including any playtime in the sandbox) so I can continue to evaluate the atmosphere.... And hopefully all you guys move up since it seems they (majors) might have staved off the bleeding and may begin to recall, and interview again.
To all - thanx for the input and the professionalism (I've seen some heli boards that are simply crazy).
Keep the dirty side down, mostly!
46 Driver is correct that the army is really the wrong place to look for a fixed wing slot. We call it the fixed wing multi engine qual course and its done by FSI on contract. Although slots have doubled in the past year, I'm not buying into the 5 year active duty contract just to take the course with NO guarantee that I will actually fly a C-12 afterwards... Hell, they are not letting gun guys go to the course and fly C-12s much nowadays.
Right now I'm looking at the freight - 135 arena to build time. I'll have the IFR 135 mins met and maybe I'll check out AirNet and some others (Will save that question for another day). I still think that PFT in the regional community is seen worse than it would be seen in most other job markets and I can appreciate that. I'm glad uncle sugar won't let me go for another 11 months (not including any playtime in the sandbox) so I can continue to evaluate the atmosphere.... And hopefully all you guys move up since it seems they (majors) might have staved off the bleeding and may begin to recall, and interview again.
To all - thanx for the input and the professionalism (I've seen some heli boards that are simply crazy).
Keep the dirty side down, mostly!