Rich P-F-T ad

[Wiggums]

Good points bobby, except the stupidest part of TabExpress is after you've spent over 60k, you haven't bought a job, just your tickets and 100 hours of turboprop time. If your gonna buy a job you have to go to a company that sells them. I wonder how their deal is going with AE while they have pilots on the street.

The best laugh is the "Airline Pre-Job Prep Course". It's supposedly specially requested by the AE New Hire Program, and for 18k you'll get airline groundschool and 25 hours of King Air time.

 

[Timebuilder]

Thanks, wiggums. If there is no freight or paying passengers, then Tab is just an overpriced promise mill.

 

[bobbysamd]

TAB Express

Guys:

It is hilarious, in a sick and insulting way. That's why I posted this in the first place. I would hope no one would pick up the "tab" for Tab.

I like Timebuilder's quip about this place being an overpriced promise mill.

 

[stingray]

I agree with bobby about this place, being that i live done here in FL seen them, been to thier home airport with my current job (frac pilot), and have seen the operation its a ma&pa outfit with some wornout C-90's. I would spend your money elsewhere.

 

[A1FlyBoy]

American Flyers CFI-A & I

While flipping through the March issue of Flying Magazine I saw an add pubbing American Flyers "CFI Academy Program". "BOTH INSTRUCTOR LICENSES IN ONLY 30 DAYS!!!" $2495.00

Hmm... must be ONLY for those 40 hour Private Pilot ACES.

 

[bobbysamd]

American Flyers

I saw that ad, too. Now, you see those ads all the time. Probably this will invite some discussion. It seems a bit too good to be true, but if you're extremely current, as in just off Commercial ride(s) and absolutely current on your knowledge, it could be done.

 

[TurboS7]

In any regional airline or whatever PFT is usually an effort to keep new pilots from leaving the company and going to greener pastures. With one that is legit the company puts up the money and the "dept owed" goes away after a specific amount of time.As a bonus you will find that the legit ones pay you while you are in training which is a big bonus when you have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay.

 

[Wiggums]

Or you could just treat your employes right. Pay them a fair wage and treat them like real people with feelings and not like little kids and you'll find that they are much more likely to stay around.

 

[bobbysamd]

Amen

You could say that for many other businesses besides aviation. Once again, I've been there and done that.

I would have never p-f-t. I have signed training contracts and would have done so again, under the right circumstances.

 

[TurboS7]

I guess what I was really talking about is a training contract not PFT. PFT you put the money up front and it is the money that gives you the "slot" not your ability or experience. I have never done that, I did sign a "training contract" for my 737 type as it was at Boeing. All it said was I had to stay with the company for one year, like I really had anywhere else to go....why would I leave when I was offered a 737 with 0 hours on it-brand new.