How deep the pool at Island Air?

[whereamI]

what is the current time to upgrade at MAC? whats the schedule, bases, pay? good company to work for? how many hours per month on avg.? thanks

I hear they have great housing rates at schofield if you sign a contract!

 

[skyride56]

There is zero chance to upgrade unless you have the 135 mins to fly the caravan. If you do have the mins you can either start off as a F27 FO or caravan driver. After turning the autopilot on in the caravan for a year or so (and you meet the mins as a F27 CA) you can submit your bid for the left seat of the f27.
Schedule's not bad outside of living on the other side of the clock. I usually get 1 week off every 2-3 months (this depends on where you're based). I log around 40-45 hours a month working every week. The company’s not a bad one to work for, the money is nice ($25k as a FO to start), ops is pretty laid back, and the F27 is fairly heavy for a turboprop.

here are there published mins. http://216.189.73.74/index.cfm?Section=mac&Occurrence=17
I spoke to lady in HR who said that they won't interview anyone below, this was not the case 3 months when they held their last interview spree. like everyone else, they have resumes coming out their mail holes.
My advice, if you meet the mins send them a resume, the training contract is only for year during which you won't have to worry about getting furloghed. over 20 something years they have never axed a pilot due to a surplus (to my knowledge)

gl

 

[skyride56]

update

Interviewed this week in ATL, talked to Nikki about the pool depth, she said: "there are 15 maybe 15-20 pilots in the pool currently". They were interviewing 20 more guys after myself (not in one day). Nikki also said the next class could be in January, nothing new here. I was told I'd hear something in 3-4 weeks.

Hoping for the best,

SR

 

[Sleepyhead]

Since they still have not sent the letters for the Aug interviews, I guess those numbers don't include anyone from Aug.
So the pool is probably more like 30.

 

[PilotMonkey]

Nikki also said the next class could be in January, nothing new here. I was told I'd hear something in 3-4 weeks.

I interviewed in mid August. I was told that there may be a class in October and to expect to hear something in 2-3 weeks. It has now been 8-9 weeks, there was no class in October, and I still have not heard anything. Neither have any of any of the other guys that I interviewed with. I called and spoke with Nikki about 2 weeks ago and she told me that "they havent gotten around to making any decision." Im not sure what to think.