Has Pinnacle started hiring street captains?

[Tram]

Pinnacle is a mess. About 18 newish folks have been pulled off the December schedule because the guy that did their LOFT back in late July/August was not qualified to perform them... so they've technically been unqualified this whole time.

Yeh, that's how the FAA tried to shut Regions down.. It was a big blow to a small company.. I mean, you take a total employee list of 60 and wack it down to 25 it's hard to keep flying..

If you are considering leaving after a few months, you better make sure you go to a place that is worlds better than PCL or you will just be playing these games over again...

 

[PCL_128]

Sure, I don't care if you use it..

You da man! Thanks.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

PCL-128..... your signature line change rate is greater than PCL's attrition rate...

 

[Lazy8]

If you are considering leaving after a few months, you better make sure you go to a place that is worlds better than PCL or you will just be playing these games over again...

A place worlds better than PCL isn't hard to find. All the regionals suck, but some go out of their way to suck.

 

[Tram]

A place worlds better than PCL isn't hard to find. All the regionals suck, but some go out of their way to suck.

Yeh.. but a guy who has one been here a couple months isn't going anywhere "worlds" better..

He could most definitely find a better regional though...

 

[climbhappy]

what's the latest...

i'm looking for a quick upgrade, are new hires with the time spending 100 hours in the right seat? they've called me to interivew.

 

[Smarta$$]

i'm looking for a quick upgrade, are new hires with the time spending 100 hours in the right seat? they've called me to interivew.

With upgrade classes starting after the holidays now, upgrade went quite a bit more senior. If they hire you, you have to complete FO ground school, FO sim and checkride, FO loft, FO IOE, then fly 100 hours right seat, then bid or go to upgrade training, pass all of it, pass captian IOE, Pass fed ride, THEN and only then will you get anything more than 20.79 dollars per hour.

Will be 4-6 months minimum.

I don't know if you know this, but we just took a strike vote here. 99.39% of pilots voted in favor of a strike. You DO NOT want to come here. This place is a POS and our mismanagement has there head in their a$$es. No contract anytime soon, and they continue to violate the one we have. Plus our management seems hell bent on growing our Alter Ego airline instead of our own.

Mesaba is hiring street captains with Capt pay right from the start. Same bases, better future.

Go to Mesaba, seriously.

 

[Flyer1015]

PCL-128..... your signature line change rate is greater than PCL's attrition rate...

Somehow, I doubt it.

 

[SaturnPilot]

i'm looking for a quick upgrade, are new hires with the time spending 100 hours in the right seat? they've called me to interivew.

You might want to try another airline with quick upgrades. Pinnacle's failure rate for "street captains" has been well over 50%. The training here is absolutely horrendous. Nobody will teach you more than the "basics" in school, and then you get to your oral, checkride, and oe, and those check airmen will expect you to know EVERYTHING to the T, some of which you will not even see in training (nw performance, winter ops procedures, etc.). These check airmen are expecting more and more out of the upgrades here as the new fos / new dispatchers / etc come in with less experience and worse training.

What I'm saying is, you can expect to come out of PCL with at LEAST one training failure. The quick upgrade is not worth having that on your permanent record.