KeroseneSnorter
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You might want to listen to someone that has been there and done it, I know it helped me a great deal and I had lots of Freight,Corporate, as well as Regional PIC. But what the heck do I know I have only been getting paid to fly for 15 or so years.WSurf said:Okay, I have some jet time, and believe me.... Auto Throttles and fly by wire is not hard. Once you learn the right buttons to push and have a good concept of pitch and power its easy. So dont give me the learning curve deal, its all the same. The Dash 8 is a beast in itself to fly, and in some respects harder then a jet. Don't tell me you are one of those automation slaves?!
Remember these won't be the same captains at MDA that you flew with at Mainline...And I doubt there are only a few if any that where ex mainline captains that will be at MDA. I know a hand full of people that got hired a US Airways from the regionals with little or no PIC Regional time! Now there left seat drivers and teaching me... wowoow. 800 of the furloughees are 12 and 13 year guys, All were mainline Captians. And unless you were a minority, 100% of the new Hires were Captians prior to ML. My class of 50 had 1 pilot that had 0 Jet PIC (Dash F/O, Minority) The PIC ranged from 747's ,DC-10's, on down to RJ's and Biz jets. About the only ones with 0 jet were the W/O's that didn't fly them prior to hiring with the W/O's (I don't know any, Regional mins were about 2500 TT when most of us came through. 3000 was competetive to fly a Dash. Lots of Lear freighter time required to be a shoe in, the early 90's were tough.
I am not trying to create waves, its just I hear it from the PSA guys, and I know its gonna be that way at MDA...... Hope not however... G-Day