Originally Posted by
aviation_enthus
The reason you need 2000 hours TT and 500 hours Multi to fly a S340 is because they expect to upgrade you ASAP. They don’t need more 200 hour cadets that take 3 years to upgrade, they’ve got plenty of those! Pass 2 sim checks and you’ll quickly find yourself in the LHS.
Q’link/Airnorth would be the same. They’re hiring future Captains, not f/o’s that need baby sitting for 3-4 years.
So are they offering "ready to upgrade to captain" pay, or are they offering "200 hour cadet" pay and hoping that some 2000 hour, ready to upgrade to captain pilots will accept the low pay until such time as they upgrade ... no promises on when that will be of course.
Also, what sort of pay and work rules will they be under once upgraded? Subsidiary question: what happened to the captains who were previously filling the vacancies they re trying to fill now? Why did they leave? for better pay? Better schedulable?