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Old 6th Sep 2017, 17:27
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misd-agin
 
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Being female reduces the resume requirements but it doesn't reduce them below a certain level.


In the U.S. the airlines typically don't care if you have a type rating on their fleet type. SW used to require it, then preferred it, now they don't care. Everyone goes through the full type rating course as a new hire. No short courses.


If you show up and think that having 1000 hrs in type, with 1500 TT, makes you more employable in the U.S. it might come across as a negative - it shows a lack of understanding what the U.S. recruiters consider competitive. MPL/PPF

I found recent resumes of pilots hired at the secondary airlines that button push ignored mentioned -


7300TT 4000T 350 TPIC ? type ratings (at least 1)
5000TT 4500T 0 TPIC ? type ratings (at least 1)
4700TT 2550 TPIC 3 types
3800TT 1800 MEL
2700TT 1300PIC 1200T current 121 FO
2500TT 1200T 100 TPIC (121 CA)


Your resume is below all of the known resumes of recent new hires. I wouldn't plan on bypassing the regionals. At 2500 TT you might consider yourself competitive for transitioning to an LCC (second tier airline). At that point you'd match the qualifications of the lowest known resume I found.


The number of less than 3000TT new hires, even at the LCC's, is fairly low in the U.S. Understand that and based your expectations on that.

The average U.S. new hire has 5000-7500TT and 3000-4000 PIC. Being female will reduce that somewhat. It will not be 1500TT because you have a 320 type rating.
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