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Old 4th Dec 2010, 02:26
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johns7022
 
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An opposing view...

Companies routinely put people with questionable hours and credentials in planes all the time...if they want them.....on the other hand...no one knows the insurance premium of a pilot until that pilot has been put in front of the insurance company..

and that said....

In reality it's cheaper insurance wise to hire a ten thousand hour captain with no GV type but with 4000 hours of PIC jet time, then a 2000 hour pilot with a GV type and 100 hours of SIC...so everytime they want that 100 hours in type...

Translate : We don't want to have to pay for your training...we want someone else too....we are shopping training...not pilots.

Bottom line....most companies are chumming for a pilot who will move for free, come to them with a paid type, work for cheap.....and regardless of what the stated qualifications are....you can meet or exceed the stated qualification of what is advertised...then lo and behold the chief pilot hired the boss's nephew with zip flight time..

Just send in your resumes...you never know...you might get hired after they sift through all other guys.....because in the end, they hire who they want anyway...regardless of what they said they want.
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