Where do Ameriflight pilots end up?

[satpak77]

It's the lack of 121, crew experience and complex aircraft that is lacking from an AMF pilot's resume, that is a hiring impediment.

It is such an impediment that numerous former AMF-ers have been hired at AA, SWA, DAL, CAL, UPS, and FDX.

 

[RefugePilot]

It is such an impediment that numerous former AMF-ers have been hired at AA, SWA, DAL, CAL, UPS, and FDX.

It's not an impediment to getting hired, not having an answer to the question is. Just be prepared and confident with your response.

 

[EatSleepFly]

It's not an impediment to getting hired, not having an answer to the question is. Just be prepared and confident with your response.

"Well Mr. Eatsleepfly, one final question. Do you think you'll be able to handle a glass cockpit and an additional crewmember?"

Oh, you mean decrease my workload tenfold? Yeah, I think I can probably handle that.

That question is the least of my worries in an interview.

 

[DirtyBeech]

Crew time and FMS experience are extremely overrated. If you can single pilot a Metro while still dealing with UPS supervisors in a civil manner you'll be able to fly any jet they put you in, and handle the warm body occupying the other seat.

Trust me. You'll crawl into that sim with a glass cockipt, autopilot that isn't labled S-Tec or deferred, and has all the other gee whiz stuff in it and breeze through training.

Except for KSU who's a Kansas reprobate and only associates with me in the hopes of watching his 'cats get a solid whooping in Austin this year.

 

[frmrBUFFdrvr]

It's the lack of 121, crew experience and complex aircraft that is lacking from an AMF pilot's resume, that is a hiring impediment.

It's interesting that the view that previous 121 time is so important has become so prevalent. A friend of mine who used be on the hiring board of a major airline says they never even looked at that as a discriminator.

Personally, I think is something spread by the regionals to make themselves the premier "stepping stone" to the majors.

 

[Linetech]

and learn how to REALLY fly (with the help of the Metroliner).
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Just go over to DFW the'll send you thru a Tropical depression, and tell you the weathers fine!

Seriously,

AMF is a great place to build time with out living in a one bed room apartment with 5 coworkers. They are also hiring anyone with a pulse and a certificate. So you have a little bargaining power as to equipment and base.

Good Luck.

Unless you live in BUR!

 

[satpak77]

It's interesting that the view that previous 121 time is so important has become so prevalent. A friend of mine who used be on the hiring board of a major airline says they never even looked at that as a discriminator.

Personally, I think is something spread by the regionals to make themselves the premier "stepping stone" to the majors.

It is so incredibly important that I know a guy who flew King Air 90's Part 91, built up his turbine PIC, and now is at SWA.

Go get that RJ co-pilot time boys! Glass cockpit RJ time!

(still can't find the column in my logbook that says "EFIS hours")

go get 'em boys

 

[satpak77]

uh?

It's not an impediment to getting hired, not having an answer to the question is. Just be prepared and confident with your response.

earlier you said

It's the lack of 121, crew experience and complex aircraft that is lacking from an AMF pilot's resume, that is a hiring impediment. Those with training captain experience, or ability to explain how they can play well with others and learn how to fly a complex aircraft well, get hired to bigger and better things.

so is it or isn't it? Or is the success in an interview more dependant on not waffle-ing on your statements?

I (and lots of others) would rather have a ex-AMF guy who flew single pilot Metros thru the soup at o-dark thirty than some new kid whose only job was right shotgun in an RJ and claimed he "had 121 time"

"121 time" is becoming a joke more and more as it gets watered down

same with "EFIS time". So what? Everybody and his brother these days has some EFIS time. So you have it? (Or don't have it, either way).

As more and more cracker-box buy-your-RJ-job schools crank out more and more pilots, the "121 time and EFIS time" gets watered down more and more.

What else do you bring to the table? When I see your resume, do I get images of a good guy, humping old broken birds thru the weather, by himself, only to unload boxes when he lands?

Or do I see images of snot-nosed kids with Ipods, wearing backpacks, who have never been outside the airplane or the terminal (thanks to jet bridges) until they get in the hotel van?

 

[citabriapilot]

Just go over to DFW the'll send you thru a Tropical depression, and tell you the weathers fine!

A tropical depression has max. sustained winds of 34 knots... We see more than that in Ginormous Texas Thunderstorms From Hell on a daily basis.

Geez, I've watched wind gust up to 40 knots in West Texas on a clear day, just cause it could.

Just cause ya'll down in SoCal don't see a lot of action on the radar screen doesn't mean anything tropical has to be dangerous if a pilot knows what they're doing and knows how to make good judgment calls.

 

[PA31Driver]

Good stuff, I always thought Ameriflight pilots ended up in the left seat of a Dodge Colt

The "AmeriColt"

 

[DirtyBeech]

A tropical depression has max. sustained winds of 34 knots... We see more than that in Ginormous Texas Thunderstorms From Hell on a daily basis.

Geez, I've watched wind gust up to 40 knots in West Texas on a clear day, just cause it could.

Just cause ya'll down in SoCal don't see a lot of action on the radar screen doesn't mean anything tropical has to be dangerous if a pilot knows what they're doing and knows how to make good judgment calls.

Left coast sissies.

 

[Linetech]

A tropical depression has max. sustained winds of 34 knots... We see more than that in Ginormous Texas Thunderstorms From Hell on a daily basis.

Geez, I've watched wind gust up to 40 knots in West Texas on a clear day, just cause it could.

Just cause ya'll down in SoCal don't see a lot of action on the radar screen doesn't mean anything tropical has to be dangerous if a pilot knows what they're doing and knows how to make good judgment calls.

Theres a lot more to the story.. ill type it up when I'm over at the beach!

 

[EatSleepFly]

Just go over to DFW the'll send you thru a Tropical depression, and tell you the weathers fine!

How do they send anybody anywhere? Do they have remote controlled Metros out there?

I have never met a pilot at this company that will let themselves get "sent" into anything they feel is unsafe. If the weather is that bad and they're stupid enough to trust dispatch for a weather briefing without looking at the weather or talking to a briefer themselves, then I don't feel too bad for them.

Sounds to me like someone involved is being a drama queen.

 

[ksu_aviator]

Theres a lot more to the story.. ill type it up when I'm over at the beach!

Ya, I'd love to hear your side of the story.

 

[ksu_aviator]

"Well Mr. Eatsleepfly, one final question. Do you think you'll be able to handle a glass cockpit and an additional crewmember?"

Oh, you mean decrease my workload tenfold? Yeah, I think I can probably handle that.

That question is the least of my worries in an interview.

As I recall, you where pretty cocky before the game last year. Do you want to get that cocky again this year? It would be quite embarrassing if the Longhorns got thumped once again....and at home.