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Old October 5th, 2006, 15:20   #35
Chris_Ford
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Default Re: Uh oh, someone made a mistake...

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Originally Posted by wheelsup View Post
Just an FYI. There was a fellow on here who recently was hired at my company whose interview class consisted of 4-6 furloughed TSA guys with low TT (ie <1000 TT). From their profiles it looked like they got hired with around your same time/multi at TSA.

I don't believe any interviewed successfully here. Not that it means anything, but it might. Who knows. Was it them? Was it their flying background? I dunno. We do have a lot of ex-ACA guys here.

I'm personally glad I had 1500+ PIC and 250+ multi PIC when hired. Contrary to popular belief, I fly <60 hours/month at an airline but did 85+ while instructing. Pretty significant when you've got low time. Not to mention the guys on reserve are lucky to fly 10-15 hours/month here. Might be different at TSA though. Congrats! The airline lifestyle isn't what it's cracked up to be at $24/hr...
Yeah, I know about 5-7 guys who got furloughed at TSA last time, and I'd say 3-4 came out with the "I'm never flying a prop" mentality and became otherwise ornery people.

As for the $24/hr, it's better than the $18/hr flight instruction life
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