King Air minimums?

[Flyingdutchman]

I was waiting for this BS to start..

"Well said Crizz! I am finding that most of the people that are p!@#$@ off by low timers getting right seat jobs is because it didn't happen that way for them. If a 2000 hour pilot and a 250 hour pilot go to school for the same aircraft and pass the same sim rides, that makes THEM QUALIFIED!!!

You're right 7B2 Fitted (AS BY TRAINING) for a given purpose!"
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AMEN!

 

[Flyingdutchman]

By the way, I didn't have to pay for my job..


g'day

 

[Low and Fast]

KWA-LA-FID

Hey, I have to admit that I as well as the other instructors that I am working with have found ourselves in a great situation that is hard to find anywhere else. Of course there have been instances in the past at our company where guys have been pulled up and not been able to keep up with the a/c but we ARE checked very carefully by numerous pilots including our Chief and Director of Ops.

Some people catch lucky breaks and some people dont.....it can be found in any industry and at any work place!
Where we work .....well, we just happen to be very lucky to be WORKING for one and have the oppurtunity to move into our corporate department when they need us.

(keep in mind that they dont move people up with 200 or even 700 hours....average TT at move up is around 1000)

Low and Fast

 

[Crizz]

Who are we kidding. We dont have an opinion... we dont get that for at least another 2000 hours.

 

[BoilerUP]

Partial bump....

I appreciate the replies from everyone regarding their experience in time minimums for a King Air PIC job. Now I have another question.

Anybody know typical insurance requirements for a Cessna CJ position? I seem to recall these were geared towards owner-operators, but I have seen alot of 135 operators and small businesses using them, and the CJ2 is a pretty slick looking plane.

Comments, opinions?

 

[Gulfstreamlover]

If you think those King Air times are high, my buddy flies an MU2 and their insurence requires 5000tt

 

[StaticWick]

Insurance runs things...

...I've heard so much crap in the last two years of trying to get in right seat programs, Citations, King Airs...it really depends on who you know and how much insurance man wants to give. Like it or not they run the industry (sorry FAA man )

We got a A100 and at 1400 TT I barely qualify to sit in the right seat much less the left seat at 2500 TT (w/1000 hrs in King Air's). I can't even sit in the right seat of our Citation II, rumored to be easier to fly than the king air but I wouldn't know because the insurance companies are clamping down on the 135 ops.

To answer your CJ1 question it's in the same ball park of 2.5 to 3K of hours. It's also a matter of economics and how much you/owner/corp wants to pay. I am just lucky to have met the CP/Pres. of my temporary job when I did it's been a long hard push up hill. (It's only temp because everything in aviation is only a temp....Fleming Foods Flight department 27 yrs- R.I.P.)

Now if all the US operators went to Loyd's of London, UK, and got insurance policies maybe insurance man would ease a little.