Hired at Comair with 50 Multi!

[shroomwell]

I don't think anybody questioned her flying skills. I think the orginal poster meant that she received an interview at those low times, when he can't get one with twice the experience. For all I know she could have come from a bridge program, aren't there plenty of guys who get hired with those qualifications as well.

 

[Rythm3]

Hey, I even called her up and the first thing she said to me was "Your Furloughed pilots are NOT welcome here---unless they get 200 multi too and then resign their numbers!!!!! Those are the rules!!!"

Bye Bye--General Lee

Am I missing something here, but shouldn't every Delta pilot have 200 multi already?

 

[Whirlwind]

I don't think anybody questioned her flying skills.

Fair enough, I must have misread that into the original post.

I think the orginal poster meant that she received an interview at those low times, when he can't get one with twice the experience.

Perhaps she knows the right person? These days, it isn't what you know, but who you know, that really matters.

I know one good looking female pilot who is on her third instructing job, because she doesn't know how to network and meet people. I know a number of male pilots who have the same problem.

I read posts from people complaining about not getting any replies, and I wonder what they are doing to make contacts. Sending out mass resumes can work, but it might be more useful to simply get to know the right people.

Fly Safe!

 

[350DRIVER]

Not meant to start a flame war...but we live in a man's world. I wouldn't trade being a male in this profession to be a female in it, and I doubt any of you would. I see only a handful of women at my airline, and any woman who attempts a career in this industry has far greater battles to fight than I ever did to get here.

Great post. I had to quote that. I could not have said it any better even if I wanted to. I have only had to fly with a few female pilots and thankfully it was uneventful. There surely is a "comfortable" factor missing when it is their leg to fly.

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>> It is amazing though the extremes and things they will do to get to the interview.

 

[English]

Great post. I had to quote that. I could not have said it any better even if I wanted to. I have only had to fly with a few female pilots and thankfully it was uneventful. There surely is a "comfortable" factor missing when it is their leg to fly.

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>> It is amazing though the extremes and things they will do to get to the interview.

What? Are you serious?

 

[350DRIVER]

What? Are you serious?

It has just been my personal experience(s) and a few that I have spoken to. From this thread apparently a few on this board also share those same beliefs.

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[General Lee]

Rythm3,

Yes. I was joking.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[fyeo777]

Come on guys! Lets fall back on that old standby that has worked and entertained us for years to explain this situation


"What do you expect to happen when United is not hiring"


Sorry, could not resist

 

[MYFpilot]

Dude looks like a lady

You can always have a sex change if you want.

Funny you mention it, I know of one flight instructor who did exactly that.

Shim, Shim!!

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

When SHE and her 36C's finally reached 200 multi SHE was given a class date and started the next month.


this trend of hiring women simply for walking through the door, regardless of how they stack up to others as pilots is out of hand.

Sounds to me like she stacked just fine.

 

[climbhappy]

crying foul!!!

gender like race, and unfortunately now sexual orientaion is the basis for way too much dialog on the realities of modern day hiring practices. I know a guy who changed his foreign name to smith and the phone stated ringing...

there are exceptions to every rule. In flying for a living , There are no rules, only initiative.


You do what you can, get what you get, and go on or get out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rightrudder]

I highly doubt that the original poster's story is true. This smells like flame bait.

 

[Fly BI]

Time for a change?

BaronFR8Dog,

If your theory is fact, just start taking estrogen supplements and lop it off. How could anyone say no to a post-op tranny??

 

[bailout]

Apparently they have an huge stack of 36C resumes on file now, so they have raised the "competitve minimums" to 38D.

 

[FN FAL]

I highly doubt that the original poster's story is true. This smells like flame bait.

Actually, it smells like something that rhymes with moontang.

 

[ACE]

I highly doubt that the original poster's story is true. This smells like flame bait.

Agreed. Comair does not abide by those hiring practices. The only instance that is comparable, is the 250 hour pilots from WMU Delta has forced Comair to take. Most of those low time pilots have washed out in training. I believe 3 have made it out onto the line. Out of those 3, 1 has left or has been let go. Comair is well aware that low time pilots are not a good investment. $$$$

 

[JediNein]

Apparently they have an huge stack of 36C resumes on file now, so they have raised the "competitve minimums" to 38D.

Finally meet the competitive mins at something!

Now if I could only hire someone to go around with me all day and carry the things.

Actually, it's another form of PFT known as PFB. A little silicon and an inflation valve and even the guys can have 38DDs.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[Snakum]

Now if I could only hire someone to go around with me all day and carry the things.

Where do I sign up?

Minh

 

[BadDogsInc.]

Sometimes you guys will believe anything as long as you see it in print!
As a furloughed female airline pilot and with well over Comair's minimums, I never received an interview and even with someone walking a resume in, they said they had so many apps from 4000-5000 hour guys that I was simply not competitive there.
I have spent 7 months trying to find a new regional job and just got hired again.

In fact I was turned down for a corporate job flying a Citation (which I am typed in and DID NOT get a " Women in Aviation scholarship" for) because the owner thought his wife would not be cool with me as the pilot!!!!

I NEVER got a call from any airline that I did not meet their mins!

So enough of the "cry me a river..."

 

[Astra Guy]

Sic'em BadDogs!

 

[Rottweiller]

WTF!! Seems that it's all going to $hit! Apparently AWAC mins don't mean anything if you are a chick - they have just hired one with less than the min 1500 hours (about 1300 by all accounts!!).

 

[JediNein]

Pardon my ignorance, what's AWAC? Any realation to the military EWACs?

Thanks.

 

[BaronFR8Dog]

Ace & RR,

I am the original poster.

You can doubt all you want. PM me and I'll tell you her name. If you know someone in Comair HR who can look her up and tell you the flight time she had when offered the job and when hired then you'll know. I can also give you email addresses of several of our pilots who know the story. She was well-liked and we're all happy for her, but most of have much more experience and college degrees (which she does not have), excellent records and work ethics and we can't get a "drop dead" out of Comair.

My beef is not that she got the job. In fact she is a very good pilot and I have flown with her. My beef is that she, along with so many other females are hired way ahead of males with equal or greater experience. When have you heard of Comair giving an offer letter of employment PENDING that person reaching their minimums? I certainly never have.

There is blatant anti-male discrimination in the hiring practices of many airlines. What is wrong with standing up against discrimination? As I predicted in my original post, the liberal PC NAZIS came out with flames and attacks. I ignore their juvenile rantings and personal attacks. In their mind discrimination is okay, as long as they approve of who's getting the shaft.

BFD

 

[767200]

Talking about discrimintation...

What do you think about the hiring practices at airlines, regarding minorities, including hispanics and black people? Just curious.

 

[BoilerUP]

There is blatant anti-male discrimination in the hiring practices of many airlines.

I'd say there is less anti-male discrimination going on at the airlines, and more pro-boobies discrimination. Its a shatty way all around, but in a male dominated environment, if you have a pretty face and bangin' body you can move faster than those who don't [read GUYS]. Its the sad, unfortunate truth. I'm certainly not saying all women airline pilots got their jobs because they are women - they need skills to pass the ground school, sim and IOE - but to deny the correlation would be foolish wishful thinking.

That having been said, I think Sharon Jones is the HR person in charge of pilot hiring at Comair, so I dunno in this case. I agree it's a raw deal, but there ain't much we, as guys, can do about it in the here and now.

 

[resistance]

All this is nothing new to airline hiring. I remember in the late 90's when YOnited was the spot to be, so many over-qualified pilots were turned down to hire many, MANY female pilots who were obviously more qualified with a quarter of the flight experience.

Ask some United line pilots the rough estimate of chicks who are professional F/O's due to multiple upgrade failures. (like 150)

I am I pissed off about the hiring practice....yes! But in retrospect I think it saved me from going down the path of no return.

 

[Riddle momma]

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here, but I agree with all of you. Personally I am a minority chick, but so far, I have not seen one ounce of it! I have applications in with everyone, I even meet the mins!!! Have I gotten a phone call yet? Nope.

But you know what, I really do hate all this silver platter crap. I hate being told, "Oh well you're a girl, they'll totally hire you". To me it's almost insulting. I don't want to be hired for what I am, but for who and what I can do. Maybe I am just being proud and cocky, but still.

I honestly believe that gender and race should be totally ommited and that experience alone should be used in hiring. And a conditional employment!?!? That just sucks! Why couldn't it have been, "when you meet the mins, we'll give you an interview".

Oh well. I guess I am just blowing steam really. Thanks for listening.

RM

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

Get used to it. Comair's policy seems the norm. If anything the majors are easier for a minority than regionals.

At the major I worked (fill in any name you want, its all the same) Women consistantly got hired with less time than all others. They did meet the minimum quals but were (mostly) interviewed and hired with far less experience than their male counterparts.

During the hiring rush in the late 90's I even had a friend that was recruited by a major. She didn't even have an application in with ANY majors. She flew F/O on a Dash 8 and got a cold call from the HR department. Of course she took the job, I would have too if I were in her place. She never expected it, She was waiting to apply until she had some PIC turbine time.

You have to realize that of all the pilots out there only about 5 % or so is female, and of that number even fewer that hold advanced ratings ie. ATP. So for airlines to hire enough to be PC they have to seek out much lower times. My friend thinks that she was called simply bacause she held an ATP and sombody at the sim center who she met during recurrent training on the Dash passed her name along. her times were in the neighborhood of 2200 tt and 500 turbine SIC. Well below the 5000 average and 1000 PIC turbine that was the norm at my airline at the time.

By the way, she was one of my students when I instructed, now she is 600 numbers senior to me at the major!! But that is the way it works out. So try not to get bent out of shape about it. Its like taxes, nothing you can do.

The unfortunate side effect is that all women are lumped into this group, even the ones that had the time and experience when thay were hired. I used to fly with an excellent Captain and very good pilot who was female. On any given four day trip she would have to endure at least 5 snide comments from passengers. I was a snot nosed new F/O just off IOE but still had pax comeup during boarding with comments like "Oh whew, glad to see a guy up here!" On the other hand I had a female F/O once that had no business flying, I in effect was single pilot for that 3 day trip.

 

[OldManPilot]

When I began flying 16 years ago, my instructor was a woman. She was a fantastic pilot as well as a knowledgeable instructor. Her training was the best and that is why I stayed with her as my instructor from Private to Multi. She now is a CPT. at AA.

The captain I flew with 3 months ago was a woman. Again perhaps one of the most knoweldgeable about the aircraft I have met. She was also an excellent stick and had some great advice on flying the aircraft.

Actually in the past 16 years, every "Professional" female pilot I have met has been great to know and to fly with.

Its a shame that many of them feel they have to know more and fly better than there male counterparts to be excepted. I find spending a month with a woman to be a refreshing change of pace. If you cannot spend a month in the cockpit with a woman and not have anything to talk about, its not her fault, perhaps you are just a bit to shallow.

Try excepting them with an open attitude. I think you could be suprised at how enjoyable they could be to work with.

 

[QuietBirdMan]

Wifey hired at european major with 198TT and 40 Twin. Life aint fair.
Oh yes, shes going to the 777 as a second officer/cruise pilot. Autopilot monitoring only. Who cares? I would give my left testicle for that position! Even the bunks have personal TV sets!
If only she had 36Cs then I wouldnt care too much
Regards
Capt and MR Quietbirdman