Street Captains

[Avi8tor2000]

Which regionals out there are hiring street Captains right now?

 

[BEfly]

why? you ready to move out of your mom's house?

 

[Avi8tor2000]

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[BEfly]

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[CitationUltra]

They're all hiring them, or will be.

 

[knewhigher]

Heard new hires at Mesa can hold captain pretty much right away. I also heard they will "officially" be hiring CRJ IAD street captains before long. Have fun.

 

[CitationUltra]

Heard new hires at Mesa can hold captain pretty much right away. I also heard they will "officially" be hiring CRJ IAD street captains before long. Have fun.

That was my point. They're either doing it, or the effect is the same, with the instantaneous upgrades.

Another factor is, at the point where the F/O pool primarily consists of pilots with fewer than 1,000 hours total time due to low-time newhires, how are you going to upgrade these people? It's not that there is anything wrong with them, or they aren't good pilots, but are the companies and insurance companies going to want to upgrade people into commercial turbojet aircraft with these experience levels?

 

[skydork]

PSA upgrades at ATP mins. We will probably be hiring street CA or doing immediate upgrades by summer.

 

[AWACoff]

Colgan is looking for street captains in the Q400.

 

[Trogdor]

GLA hires 1900 street CAs.

 

[Captainzero1]

IF you are from the freight world single pilot and thinking about being a street captain at the regional level. Remember your fo is part of the crew and not a box with a face drawn on for you to talk to.

 

[siucavflight]

If you go now prepare to be furloughed within one year. The aviation industry landscape is about to change very dramatically.

 

[Flybet3]

If you go now prepare to be furloughed within one year. The aviation industry landscape is about to change very dramatically.

I love it when people pull stuff out of their as$

 

[T-prop]

IF you are from the freight world single pilot and thinking about being a street captain at the regional level. Remember your fo is part of the crew and not a box with a face drawn on for you to talk to.

Many of those type you are referring to, usually choose to rudely ignore the asset they have in the right seat.

Saw this once on the J/S in a DHC8, he had less turbine time than the FO (Street CA was from Flight Express.) He ignored every "get-to-know-you" question from the FO. Then, he proceeded to tuck us in behind an Airbus on approach (got within a mile of him). I wanted to choke him out after landing for being such a worthless tool-bag.

 

[CitationUltra]

Many of those type you are referring to, usually choose to rudely ignore the asset they have in the right seat.

Saw this once on the J/S in a DHC8, he had less turbine time than the FO (Street CA was from Flight Express.) He ignored every "get-to-know-you" question from the FO. Then, he proceeded to tuck us in behind an Airbus on approach (got within a mile of him). I wanted to choke him out after landing for being such a worthless tool-bag.

Would he have been a worthless tool-bag anyway, "street captain" or not?

 

[beachpilot]

i bet you he is

 

[RiddleEagle18]

Is GIA still Hiring street captains. I heard that they weren't. If they are does anyone have a copy of their contract?? Typical trips?

 

[T-prop]

Would he have been a worthless tool-bag anyway, "street captain" or not?

It's not the "street captain" part, that made him that way... I was one at the time.

It's the part about his only experience prior to the left seat of a DHC8 was flying freight in a baron in Florida.

It's the complete lack of turbine experience, crew experience, humility, judgment, how he wormed his way through training, how he treated his more experienced FO, and how he flew, that made him a worthless tool-bag.

 

[CitationUltra]

It's not the "street captain" part, that made him that way... I was one at the time.

It's the part about his only experience prior to the left seat of a DHC8 was flying freight in a baron in Florida.

It's the complete lack of turbine experience, crew experience, humility, judgment, how he wormed his way through training, how he treated his more experienced FO, and how he flew, that made him a worthless tool-bag.

That's what I thought, thus the question.
I'm not sure I agree with all the derision toward these so-called "street" captains. If a pilot came into a company and actually took someone's job it might be different, but in the case of companies that are hiring captains because they cant upgrade the 450 hour FOs then so what?

 

[Flybet3]

That's what I thought, thus the question.
I'm not sure I agree with all the derision toward these so-called "street" captains. If a pilot came into a company and actually took someone's job it might be different, but in the case of companies that are hiring captains because they cant upgrade the 450 hour FOs then so what?

You know how it goes. Pilots gotta bit** about something.