Will Airnet be reinstating their SIC program?

[Catbert]

Airnet's SIC program - still active?

Anyone know if Airnet's SIC program is still active? If not, will it be reinstated anytime soon? I haven't found a definitive answer on their website.

 

[mikecweb]

Anyone know if Airnet's SIC program is still active? If not, will it be reinstated anytime soon? I haven't found a definitive answer on their website.

Yeah its still around.
I'm doing it right now. Got hired with 850. Training at 1050.

 

[gkrangers]

So did you start as a SIC at 850, or did they wait for u to hit 1050 on your own, then SIC at 1050, and SIC until 1200, when you get your own run?

 

[mikecweb]

I got hired at 850. You need 1050 before you can attend training. This is done on your own. Then you go through training and after you pass SIC until 1200 and or your other 135 req. Then you get assigned a run.

 

[Catbert]

Thanks all.

 

[N60OSU]

I went through the program about a year ago. I was hired at 940, told to get 1050, and the brought to training at 950. I would suggest checking in with Washka regularly as I was able to go with 950 because the class was short and they wanted to fill it out. Now from what I understand they are doing two person classes right now so that may not pan out for you.

The time I spent as an SIC was invaluable. By the time I upgraded I had 250 hrs in the Baron and 3 months flying the line under the watchful eye of DGC. I came out of the instructor ranks and would not have wanted to try to adapt to the A/C, ops, and environment all by my lonesome.

 

[osu_av8r]

I went through the program about a year ago. I was hired at 940, told to get 1050, and the brought to training at 950. I would suggest checking in with Washka regularly as I was able to go with 950 because the class was short and they wanted to fill it out. Now from what I understand they are doing two person classes right now so that may not pan out for you.

The time I spent as an SIC was invaluable. By the time I upgraded I had 250 hrs in the Baron and 3 months flying the line under the watchful eye of DGC. I came out of the instructor ranks and would not have wanted to try to adapt to the A/C, ops, and environment all by my lonesome.

N60OSU, you a former aggie too? I graduated '03 and instructed until '05. Been at AirNet ever since.

 

[Catbert]

Thanks N600SU, that's exactly the kind of information I'm looking for. I'm pretty much at 1200, but short on the xc time. That and the time I've spent instructing instead of really flying makes me think the SIC program would be very beneficial.

 

[gkrangers]

Thanks N600SU, that's exactly the kind of information I'm looking for. I'm pretty much at 1200, but short on the xc time. That and the time I've spent instructing instead of really flying makes me think the SIC program would be very beneficial.

You are counting all airport to airport flights as XC right, not just 50 miles?

 

[Catbert]

Yep. Let's just say that because of the rather goofy rules at the school where I teach, it's a bit hard to drag students to other airports as often as I'd like. Even then, we have a very few canned xc trips and airports we're allowed to use. So, frankly, any xc time (more than 50 nm or point to point) I've built here actually is of rather dubious quality. Don't get me started...