Originally Posted by
flying_fish
Hi, I have 3000hours of experience on light turboprop and now at a point of career transition. I've been offered captian on ATR on a start up airlines and another LCC is offering SFO which will consider me for command upgrade after 500 hours of flying. I'm in a dilemma weather to collect PIC hours on ATR (3 years bond) and post that transit directly to Boeing 737 as a transition captian or Fly for about one/two year as SFO with bit less pay (financially i don't have any liabilities as such) and get command upgrade on 737?
I speak from experience here, no employer respects turbo prop time - despite it being an arguably a harder aircraft to operate; with 737 time - it just opens doors, with 500 on type your can apply for other companies; with a couple of thousand on type you can apply to major carriers. Just go jet ASAP don't waste your time on turbo prop.