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From today's Humpty Diddle U. Career Center Job Guide:

Trans-States will be on the Daytona Beach campus Tuesday/Wednesday, July 10-11 to hire pilots. Trans-States currently operates 48 EMB145s for United Airlines, US Airways and American Connection. Their mins are 400/25, however, they will go as low as 250/25 for those who have some sort of advanced sim (glass) training, such as the FA-420 class offered on campus. Their Info-Session will be conducted Tuesday, July 10 at 1600 in COA 254. It will last about 30 minutes and will allow candidates opportunity to ask any questions. Interviews will be the following day, July 11 in the Lehman Building #235. If you are seriously interested, :rolleyes: let Jon Merwin know ASAP and he will email you additional information and application forms to be filled out
prior to the interview session: [email protected]. Interviews will be scheduled through Jon office once he sends you the application. For more information on the company, visit http://www.transstates.net.
 
Four striped flight instructor.
 
Inconceivable said:
From today's Humpty Diddle U. Career Center Job Guide:

Trans-States will be on the Daytona Beach campus Tuesday/Wednesday, July 10-11 to hire pilots. Trans-States currently operates 48 EMB145s for United Airlines, US Airways and American Connection. Their mins are 400/25, however, they will go as low as 250/25 for those who have some sort of advanced sim (glass) training, such as the FA-420 class offered on campus. Their Info-Session will be conducted Tuesday, July 10 at 1600 in COA 254. It will last about 30 minutes and will allow candidates opportunity to ask any questions. Interviews will be the following day, July 11 in the Lehman Building #235. If you are seriously interested, :rolleyes: let Jon Merwin know ASAP and he will email you additional information and application forms to be filled out
prior to the interview session: [email protected]. Interviews will be scheduled through Jon office once he sends you the application. For more information on the company, visit http://www.transstates.net.
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Just say NO to scum like Hulas and J.O. !!!
 
Inconceivable said:
From today's Humpty Diddle U. Career Center Job Guide:

Trans-States will be on the Daytona Beach campus Tuesday/Wednesday, July 10-11 to hire pilots. Trans-States currently operates 48 EMB145s for United Airlines, US Airways and American Connection. Their mins are 400/25, however, they will go as low as 250/25 for those who have some sort of advanced sim (glass) training, such as the FA-420 class offered on campus. Their Info-Session will be conducted Tuesday, July 10 at 1600 in COA 254. It will last about 30 minutes and will allow candidates opportunity to ask any questions. Interviews will be the following day, July 11 in the Lehman Building #235. If you are seriously interested, :rolleyes: let Jon Merwin know ASAP and he will email you additional information and application forms to be filled out
prior to the interview session: [email protected]. Interviews will be scheduled through Jon office once he sends you the application. For more information on the company, visit http://www.transstates.net.
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Looking beyond the low pay and management abuse issues at TSA (even though that is difficult), why would any low-time pilot want to fly for Colgan or Commutair or Big Sky when they could fly ERJs for TSA? These times are ridiculously low - why fly a Beech when you could fly an ERJ for a very low salary either way? Perhaps the choice of domiciles makes a difference in this case. It boggles the mind...

Now, if you have mulitple jet offers and you are a relatively low-time pilot, do what you can to avoid TSA/GoJet and Mesa - you'll be hatin' yourself if you go to any of these. I say target COEX, Republic and Skywest if you want to get some good jet experience.
 
everyone else is hiring....why the hell would you want to work there?

Really sucks to be a captain there.....babysitting time.
 
ualdriver said:
Are these for TSA jobs or GoJet jobs? Are they going to try to bait and switch these guys?
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If they somehow manage to scrape together enough applicants to fill the TSA classes, they will have no problem offering GJ classes to anyone left.

Hopefully the Riddlers are smart enough to not go to either one.
 
flyer172r said:
If they somehow manage to scrape together enough applicants to fill the TSA classes, they will have no problem offering GJ classes to anyone left.

Hopefully the Riddlers are smart enough to not go to either one.
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I don't think it's necessarily a question of "smart." I just don't think they'll know any better. I didn't know anything about unions when I graduated.
 
johnsonrod said:
I say target COEX, Republic and Skywest if you want to get some good jet experience.
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All regionals suck.
Quick upgrade and ease of commute/ domicile where you live are far more important factors than SJS.

PIC 121 is the key, regardless if your props are covered by a cowl or not.
 
JohnnyP said:
Doubt it.

They should have started falling out of the sky by now if that was the case.
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I bet we crash 1 before xmas. Almost all of the low time FOs trained in AZ or FL and have not seen more than 2 hours of actual time, much less anything like snow. They can barely keep the plane on the runway on a dry runway...really scared to see how they do with a snow covered one. We've been lucky because most of the Capts have plenty of time in the left seat..but those guys are getting jobs and moving on and we are getting new capts. We also just lowered our upgrade time. So we will have a capt with 1500 TT and a FO with 220 TT. Add in the winter wx and I see an interesting (hopefully not deadly) winter.
 
flyer172r said:
If they somehow manage to scrape together enough applicants to fill the TSA classes, they will have no problem offering GJ classes to anyone left.

Hopefully the Riddlers are smart enough to not go to either one.
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They chose Riddle, hardly think they will be smart enough to say no to TSA
 
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great cornholio said:
I bet we crash 1 before xmas. Almost all of the low time FOs trained in AZ or FL and have not seen more than 2 hours of actual time, much less anything like snow. They can barely keep the plane on the runway on a dry runway...really scared to see how they do with a snow covered one. We've been lucky because most of the Capts have plenty of time in the left seat..but those guys are getting jobs and moving on and we are getting new capts. We also just lowered our upgrade time. So we will have a capt with 1500 TT and a FO with 220 TT. Add in the winter wx and I see an interesting (hopefully not deadly) winter.
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I am not going to place bets on someone crashing an RJ before santa comes due to winter WX.

But, there have already been plenty of lower'ish time captains in the left seat of an RJ for a few winters past.

I still dont see the crash rate on the regionals skyrocketing in the next few years.
 
great cornholio said:
I bet we crash 1 before xmas. Almost all of the low time FOs trained in AZ or FL and have not seen more than 2 hours of actual time, much less anything like snow. They can barely keep the plane on the runway on a dry runway...really scared to see how they do with a snow covered one. We've been lucky because most of the Capts have plenty of time in the left seat..but those guys are getting jobs and moving on and we are getting new capts. We also just lowered our upgrade time. So we will have a capt with 1500 TT and a FO with 220 TT. Add in the winter wx and I see an interesting (hopefully not deadly) winter.
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Don't forget to add the LACK of Thrust Reversers on the LRs......
 
Hi!

We just had a new guy come in (going straight to the DC-9 w/ me later this month).

He could have gone capt at Pinnacle, but decided not to because he didn't want to fly with really low time guys.

cliff
YIP
 
JohnnyP said:
Doubt it.

They should have started falling out of the sky by now if that was the case.
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No, it's different now. For the last few years there were just some low-time guys here and there. It wasn't widespread, and most of the Captains had several years in the left seat due to stagnation after 9/11. Now all of the Captains are leaving and being replaced with new upgrades that just barely meet upgrade mins, and they're being consistently paired with guys with 250 hours. Add in some winter wx and you've got a real problem on your hands. I don't think the regionals will be able to keep up their safety record for much longer.
 
Yeah scary, as pilots get scarce your going to see alot of 1500 hour F/O's in the left seat paired with new 250 hour comm-multi in the right. With no captain in sight. Hope the guys at the NTSB have their overnight bags packed
 
anyone thinking of applying...do yourself a favor and go get a 135 gig for 500 hrs. If you dont hurt yourself then sign up to fly an RJ.


"GoJet sucks - Trans States sucks - We all suck" - Above urinal, A concourse mensroom STL
 
ArcticFlier said:
On the other hand, many out there will jump at the chance to fly a new jet............regardless of the wage and work rules.............
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Just wait until you fly 801,802,803,804.
 
I can't say I'm surprised. Personally, I think some regional will start an ab initio program in the next few years. There'll be a cognitive test and you'll have to sign some sort of heavy-duty training contract, but they'll pay for applicants to get their ratings with an affiliated training school. Heck, they can work on flows/calls/SOPs from day one so they don't learn any bad habits.

Crazier things could happen...
 
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PCL_128 said:
I don't think the regionals will be able to keep up their safety record for much longer.
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Well there is truth to what you say. Only time will tell, and for the time being we'll keep fingers crossed I suppose (pretty bad when were just relying on keeping our fingers crossed, eh?).
 

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