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[psysicx]

I would wait at least untill you 1000 hours turbine pic.Also don't forget to apply to UPS and Fedex.

 

[Heavy Set]

I would wait at least untill you 1000 hours turbine pic.Also don't forget to apply to UPS and Fedex.

Great point. Lear 70 - heed his words - don't leave Pinnacle until you have at least 1,000 hours PIC on the CRJ. That will give you more options later. That being said, if you can get PIC time on the 601, that wouldn't be such a bad deal.

 

[Lear70]

I guess every once in a while it's useful to have your flight times over there on the left...

I'm sitting on about 6,000 hours total time and 3,600 or so jet PIC, about 2,000 of it is in the RJ, another 1,500 in the Lear series (24's, 25's, 35's, 31's and 55's) and about 100 in the 727, but thanks for the advice, it's good advice for someone who doesn't have that time.

As far as UPS and FedEx go, I've had my stuff in there since '99 and haven't heard a thing, even though I was a Capt on the 727 flying USPS Priority Mail and other freight - you'd think it'd be a no brainer but I guess you have to be married to the chief pilot's ugliest daughter or something to get in there...

 

[hyper]

Without intent to hijack the thread; in your experiances and point of views, how do most employers consider 1000 hrs PIC in turbo-props (fast P180s) as opposed to jet time? Is it generally thrown into a turbine time "bucket" or is there a definite preference for the jet time?

Thanks

 

[Lear70]

It depends on who you're applying to. Most airlines don't care, they just have that magic 1,000 turbine PIC requirement to apply, then they hire people with much more time than their "minimums" in most cases.

Charter operators? Who knows, depends on the operator, but 1,000 PIC turbine seems to keep the insurance people happy (or at least it did at the last couple charter places I worked before I came to the airline world).

Corporate? I don't know, haven't had a purely corporate job (I don't think Flexjet counts even though it was almost all Part 91), but most of the want ads seem to be more interested in PIC time in TYPE than overall turbine PIC, maybe someone else can chime in?