Recency of experience

[AA717driver]

I've got a friend who is trying to get back into flying after being out for a couple of years. A couple fracs have the recency of experience requirements that will shoot him down.

Are there any that don't have that requirement or will waive it? He's a former TWA captain w/10k hours. Thanks.TC

 

[pilotyip]

I faced the same problem in 1889, after being out of professional flying for about five years. I went to a regional flying the mighty DHC-6, made Capt in ground school, instructor pilot after a month, then 6 months went to a decent Corporate job.

 

[XTW]

I faced the same problem in 1889,

Been flying quite a while, eh?:laugh:



X

 

[Diesel]

TC unfortunatly yes

 

[pilotyip]

XTW, yea the Wright's came by for a lot of advice. Typo oops!

 

[CaptainMark]

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[Club ORD FO]

I've got a friend who is trying to get back into flying after being out for a couple of years. A couple fracs have the recency of experience requirements that will shoot him down.

Are there any that don't have that requirement or will waive it? He's a former TWA captain w/10k hours. Thanks.TC

I have not flown in a year and Netjets did not offer me an interview, but I did get hired by Flex. So I'd say they are your best bet.

 

[Brett Hull]

Been flying quite a while, eh?:laugh:



X

So that's why he thinks $100,000 is a lot of money! That was like a kajillion dollars in 1889.

 

[buttercup]

So that's why he thinks $100,000 is a lot of money! That was like a kajillion dollars in 1889.

Yeah he deifinetly has no concept of what a professional wage is. 100,000 a year is a blue collar wage.

 

[pilotyip]

It is all relative $100K to a guy making $50K is a big number, to a guy making $200K it is a poverty wage. But $100K puts you in the upper 95% of US wage earners. Besides flying an airplane is skilled labor job by Dept of Labor defintion. I have never broke that number, so it would make me happy to see that number. If to you or someone else it is not a good number, so be it. But do not define for me what is correct and what is incorrect. One does that for themselves.

 

[DO-82 driver]

100k is big money depending on where you live...... In Alabama, Mississippi or anywhere in the deep South...you're a king at 100K....In TEB or LAX....you're almost on food stamps.

 

[buttercup]

Why should it matter where you live? Warren Buffett lives in Omaha and has 43 billion. It's all about understanding the value of what you're worth to do your job, otherwise you are selling yourself short. You guys with families leaving your kids for half the month ..I envy you yet pity you at the same time. Look at it that way 100k is sh*t.

 

[AirBear8]

A friend of mine I wrote an LOR for hasn't flown in over a year. The day after I emailed the LOR one of our pilot recruiters emaled me back asking what my friend had been doing to stay current & competitive. But they did send him an app. He's still waiting to hear back from that. He does have major airline experience with DC-10 and DC-9 type ratings.

AirBear

 

[AA717driver]

Thanks, airbear. I agree the recency of experience would be an issue with someone with 2000 hours. You get past a certain point and it takes about 30 minutes in the sim to shake off the rust. It's not like he's applying for a direct entry captain position. AND, it's not like he elected to leave his job and get out of aviation.

This is just another (easy) way for HR to weed out applicants.TC

 

[Guitar Guy]

TC - another way to look at is that NJA has a ton of applicants right now, so they want some way to weed out potential applicants, as you noted. But with the domicile debacle, if the pool of potential candidates dries up, you might well see the "recency of experience" issue go away.

Keep your eyes and ears open.