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[JayAre]

What do I need to be competitive at NJ's?
Would ATP, 1900 Type, 1000hrs TPIC, and 4 year degree help with just the mins of 2500hrs.
Can you float from 7on/7off, 15 flex, 18 fixed from month to month?
How does Sick, Vac. time accure?
I've searched and can't seem to find the 100 bases for pilots. Link somewhere?

Im at least a little over a year before reaching the 2500hrs


Thx,
Justin

[NightCargo]

Originally Posted by JayAre

What do I need to be competitive at NJ's?
Would ATP, 1900 Type, 1000hrs TPIC, and 4 year degree help with just the mins of 2500hrs.

I'm not exactly sure what the TT #'s are for people getting hired right now, but last I heard it was around 4-5000 hours. That being said, I wouldn't let that deter you at all as those numbers tend to get skewed by the number of retired airline pilots that we hire. You lump in a couple of guys with 15-20000 hours, and it will throw the average TT calculation waaaaay off. Hell, they hired me with just over 2500 (this was prior to the 2005 contract though, when nobody really wanted to work there)!

The biggest thing I would recommend is start lining up a few letters of recommendation. Any recs you can get will help get your application noticed and could lead to a possible earlier interview.

Originally Posted by JayAre

Can you float from 7on/7off, 15 flex, 18 fixed from month to month?

We have 3 schedule bid periods per year, each lasting 4 months. In a nutshell you could change among the 3 schedules, if your seniority would allow it, every 4 months.

Originally Posted by JayAre

How does Sick, Vac. time accure?

Sick/PTO (personal time off) days accrue at 1 per month.

Vacation is prorated from your hire date to the vacation bid period (June this year) at the rate of 2 weeks/year. After your first full year, you get 2 weeks of vacation; 5 years completed = 3 weeks; 10 years completed = 4 weeks.

Originally Posted by JayAre

I've searched and can't seem to find the 100 bases for pilots.

http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=A...P-STYLE=visual

Hope this helps!

[JayAre]

Thank you


I bet Sioux Falls is not very senior.

[CK]

Originally Posted by NightCargo

I'm not exactly sure what the TT #'s are for people getting hired right now, but last I heard it was around 4-5000 hours.

My Mom had a guy with 2800 hours in her class. I know she also had an ex-Ameriflight 99 driver in it as well, I can't remember if it was the same guy or not.

Alex.

[SteveC]

Originally Posted by JayAre

Thank you


I bet Sioux Falls is not very senior.

Actually there is no seniority involved in base choice. The planes are not based at specific locations, and the base is just where you report the first day of work, normally to catch an airline flight to where ever your plane is currently located. At the end of your rotation you catch an airline flight back to your base. No limit on the number of people in each base, either maximum or minimum. You just live where you want to, and tell the company which of those 100 cities you want as your base. It's a simple and pilot friendly system. If I understand correctly you can change bases fairly often, too. Summer home in Montana and a winter home in Arizona? No problem.

[NightCargo]

Originally Posted by SteveC

If I understand correctly you can change bases fairly often, too. Summer home in Montana and a winter home in Arizona? No problem.

Right on the money. Just give them 30 days notice, and you can fly out of any of the other 100 bases . . . no bidding, no waiting to get in. Only caveat is that you can only have 1 base change notice in at any one time.

[KLB]

JayAre,

We'll be applying there around the same time. I think you have more turbine time than I do right now though.

[gomntwins]

I hope so. I next day aired my app in today. Total time of 2501, 900 multi TPIC, ATP, and a Metroliner type rating. I do have one good connection, so hopefully that'll help. We'll see how this works... it sounds like the process is pretty lengthy for getting an interview now.

[JDE]

I've been toying with the idea of NetJets, but I have nowhere near the time. And by the time I do, I won't be nearly competitive enough! Too bad I need additional licenses with NJE, that could be a lot of fun.

[KLB]

As a new hire, do you have to start out at one of the Gateway bases (LAX, DFW, Teeterboro and etc...)? I think I know the answer, but someone else wants to know. I didn't want to give out bad information. I know that you had to prior to the new contract.

[NJA_Capt]

Originally Posted by KLB

As a new hire, do you have to start out at one of the Gateway bases (LAX, DFW, Teterboro and etc...)?

No. There are now 100 bases to choose from. They are listed on most message boards now.