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March 27th, 2005, 01:43
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Covington, LA
Posts: 173
|  Re: Youngest crew?
For the real young guys flying Regionals; I'm assumming you did the online degree if one at all. If this is so, do you feel like you missed out on the college life? Any regrets by going in so early? Jeff |
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March 27th, 2005, 02:05
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2000
Posts: 2,048
| Re: Youngest crew?
I went to Univ of Calif at Irvine, but I wouldn't call UCI much of a colleg life. I ended up taking a later class date so I could finish my degree. Only delayed me 2 months.
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March 27th, 2005, 13:32
| #28 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ohio, no, Florida, Michigan, Atl, no, Cape Cod, LA, no I am in DC now!!!
Posts: 427
| Re: Youngest crew?
[ QUOTE ] For the real young guys flying Regionals; I'm assumming you did the online degree if one at all. If this is so, do you feel like you missed out on the college life? Any regrets by going in so early? Jeff [/ QUOTE ] I am not at the Regionals, *yet*. but I do sometimes regret not having the college experience. I went to one semester, then moved to Florida, then instructed, and now am 23 and kinda think I should have partied in college for a while longer, but i was  in college because I knew I wanted to fly, and I wasnt. But then again, I have visited some very interesting places, and meet very interesting people over the last 5 years, and would never had the chance to do such in college.
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March 27th, 2005, 13:41
| #29 |
| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posts: 1,790
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I have the opposite problem from most of you....I'm 22 (hired 2 months before my 22nd birthday) but most people think I'm in my 30's when I'm in uniform (and no I'm not balding...yet). I believe I was the fourth youngest pilot on the ExpressJet seniority list until old AlaskaAirlines came over, hehehe. Regarding college, I did 90 hrs worth of work at a traditional style university before I gave that up to come here. With that much work done I can afford to take 1 or 2 classes per semester online and have it wrapped up in a year or two. College just didn't do much for me, because I could not find something that I was truly interested in reading about and studying for 8 hours a day other than aviation. I changed majors 4 times before I left for the airlines. In retrospect I'd have to reccomend that everyone stay in school until they finish if they can tolerate it. Also, you should make the decision on where you want to go to school with a specific goal in mind, don't just go somewhere because your family wants you to. To me, the "college experience" wasn't something that I enjoyed, the whole thing was a lot of work and stress, but it's necessary to get a degree if you want to get anywhere. In my opinion the easiest way to do that is to ger your AP credit in High School, then attend a brick and mortar university and knock it out in 3 or 4 years. I ended up dissapointing my family quite a bit by failing to earn a degree from our "legacy" school, but you can't please everyone! Doug is doing the responsible thing with this website by encouraging everyone to finish school before they join the labor force. There's really no hurry, by the time you retire, I doubt you'll care much that you started working 2 years earlier! |
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March 27th, 2005, 14:10
| #30 |
| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Nomadic...World Wide Boobie Bungalow Bouncer
Posts: 3,187
| Re: Youngest crew?
I went to a 4 year school right after HS. Finished 4 years later with a BS. Got Interviewed/hired 1 month after graduation at 22.
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March 27th, 2005, 14:15
| #31 |
| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
Posts: 19,000
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So Expressjet hires pilots without a college degree? -Matthew |
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March 27th, 2005, 14:20
| #32 |
| Old Skool Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posts: 1,790
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Apparantly! I believe they list "4 yr degree preferred" on the application. Almost everyone I fly with has one as did 95% of my newhire class. I may have lucked out during the HR interview, as the unviersity I did my coursework at happened to be the same one that the daughter of the guy that was interviewing me was attending. He's the senior director of flight operations (Chief Pilot). They did ask me why I hadn't finished (hey, I'm 21), and also asked me what my plans were for my education. |
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March 27th, 2005, 14:28
| #33 |
| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
Posts: 19,000
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Cool I'm studying at a ERAU extended campus and plan after that to attend ATP. I hear alot of instructors/graduates from ATP are getting hired on with Express Jet. -Matthew |
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March 27th, 2005, 16:49
| #34 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Where everybody's somebody
Posts: 606
| Re: Youngest crew?
My checkride to be CRJ captain is on tuesday... I turned 24 last month.  weeeee I already get a bunch of comments as FO... I suppose itll be even funnier and more common as captain. As far as college... I went 4 years to Florida State...lived the college life too.  |
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March 27th, 2005, 19:21
| #35 |
| Old Skool Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posts: 1,790
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Good luck on your type ride Peanuckle..... I don't think I've ever seen a skywest pilot over 30 hehehe. You guys are too easy to spot, sorry if I'm stereotyping here....but if I see anybody with spiked hair, oakleys, wearing gap/abercrombie out of uniform, I have to assume they're a skywest crew. |
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March 28th, 2005, 00:43
| #36 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Newport Beach, CA
Posts: 554
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[ QUOTE ] Good luck on your type ride Peanuckle..... I don't think I've ever seen a skywest pilot over 30 hehehe. You guys are too easy to spot, sorry if I'm stereotyping here....but if I see anybody with spiked hair, oakleys, wearing gap/abercrombie out of uniform, I have to assume they're a skywest crew. [/ QUOTE ] Or one of our's. Have you been to Houston lately? Like within the last 4 months? |
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March 28th, 2005, 00:56
| #37 |
| Old Skool Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posts: 1,790
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Fair enough, but I think we fit in more more with the wal-mart shopper crowd. Eh, maybe it's just me.
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March 28th, 2005, 09:40
| #38 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: was Ophir, CO, now in SLC!
Posts: 1,481
| Re: Youngest crew?
[ QUOTE ] I don't think I've ever seen a skywest pilot over 30 hehehe. You guys are too easy to spot, sorry if I'm stereotyping here....but if I see anybody with spiked hair, oakleys, wearing gap/abercrombie out of uniform, I have to assume they're a skywest crew. [/ QUOTE ] That won't be me. I'll be the 36 year old FO running around in North Face stuff while out of uniform. All the while, I'll be the one with the ##### eating grin too. I am just polishing off my fifth course to go with ERAU extended campus. Once I am done I will have the Pro Aero degree. If I could do it all again I wouldn't have stayed in school. Doing this one or two classes at a time is a joke and not the way to get edjumakated. |
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March 28th, 2005, 14:17
| #39 |
| Old Skool  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Memphis, TN
Posts: 13,836
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[ QUOTE ] I am just polishing off my fifth course to go with ERAU extended campus. Once I am done I will have the Pro Aero degree. If I could do it all again I wouldn't have stayed in school. Doing this one or two classes at a time is a joke and not the way to get edjumakated. [/ QUOTE ] If I had it to do over again, I would never have dropped out in the mid-90s. I've got one more to go after my ratings and the two classes I'm taking now. You're right, though. This one or two classes at a time is just frustrating at times. Granted it's about the only way I can afford it. |
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March 28th, 2005, 21:44
| #40 |
| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 4,833
| Re: Youngest crew?
I was less than a month into being 22 when I got hired at Chicago Express. While there, flew a 5-day trip over Christmas with a 25 year old captain who looked 15, and a 21 year old flight attendant. Combined age of 68. Surprisingly only one comment from a passenger. I get probably one comment a day from a gate agent or passenger about how young I look. I got an ego boost this last trip since we had all these spring breakers on our flights, and our F/A said girls kept saying stuff about the "cute pilots." Me, 23, and captain, 27. He was a captain at 23 at XJT! If you think about it... 36 years until retirement! My Lord, that is a lot If they up the age to 65, then 41 years! Gasp!!!! |
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March 28th, 2005, 23:13
| #41 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Covington, LA
Posts: 173
| Re: Youngest crew?
Looking at it that way I'm glad I can't get into Regionals until I'm in my mid to late 20's. If I had to work 36 years until retirement that would suck. Even if I got in at age 30; 30-35 more years.
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March 28th, 2005, 23:50
| #42 |
| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NY
Posts: 18
| Re: Youngest crew?
At CHQ back in Oct I flew with a 24 yr old captain and a 20 yr old FA. I had just turned 23.....67 combined  years
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March 29th, 2005, 00:07
| #43 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: NJ
Posts: 350
| Re: Youngest crew?
[ QUOTE ] I get probably one comment a day from a gate agent or passenger about how young I look. I got an ego boost this last trip since we had all these spring breakers on our flights, and our F/A said girls kept saying stuff about the "cute pilots." Me, 23, and captain, 27. He was a captain at 23 at XJT! [/ QUOTE ] I bet you have been having a lot of hot girls on the flights lately..where have the big routes been for spring breakers chicaga?  |
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March 29th, 2005, 00:58
| #44 |
| Old Skool Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 4,833
| Re: Youngest crew?
Biggest was CMH. Had half a plane full of Ohio State girls coming from Acapulco. But then it was balanced out by our DAB flight, where we had a bunch of Riddle students. Our F/A calls up and goes "We have a bunch of Riddle kids back here." My captain asks how he knows, and he goes "what do you think, they all told me they were pilots like three times."  |
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March 29th, 2005, 11:02
| #45 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: SoCal
Posts: 906
| Re: Youngest crew?
Well, hopefully I'll be amongst all you young pilots... I'm a 19 y/o CFII with over 500TT.... hopefully by the end of the year I'll be an FO for someone, Scenic Airlines is right next door to where I work, so hopefully I'm a shoe-in there... the problem with my age is that I won't be able to upgrade until 23... eh, whatever... it'll give me time to concentrate on my degree
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March 29th, 2005, 20:00
| #46 |
| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: BNA 107*/37
Posts: 29
| Re: Youngest crew?
WOW, it's been so long since i've actually posted on here i'm surprised my screen name worked! Let's see...... I was 19 when I got chekced out in the C-208B Just past my 20th when I got typed in the Shorts(part 135), long before I could get an ATP. Took a bit of expalining to do the first time I got ramped. A week after my 23rd when I got typed on the Convair 240(piston), and two months later when I got typed on the CV-580(turbine) 24 made my a part 121 supplemental Check Airman on the CV-580, then a Base Chief Pilot flying overseas. Now at 25 i'm a 727 F/O who should make Captain before my 27th(just hang in there good ol' economy) And in the process of all this madness I managed to get married and have a kid! What a crazy last few years! Seems N9103M is catching up to me though ;-) I'm glad I won't be the youngest guy in the company anymore!! |
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April 21st, 2008, 02:26
| #47 |
| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Paradise:)
Posts: 4,599
| Re: Youngest crew?
Holy necro-post 
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