Regional to Corp

[SFLAX]

I have job, not a good job, but a job that flys me alot. I have almost the mins for Netjets, my ultimate goal. I commute to ORD from SFO, at home, 8 nights a month. The QOL sucks. I have an inteview with a 91 flight department, 15 minutes from home. I have flown 91 before, know the rules, but never for a corp, what protection do I have? Also, what are some good questions I need to ask? I am more concerned about safety and expectations. I have my salary and type rating requirments already know to them and they did not say anything. Give me some suggestions? Thanks.

PS - Doug way do you have a cheap tickets link, that is stuff that lowers our wages. Just kidding, thanks for the site.

[jtrain609]

I thought you loved Mesa?

[Vladimir Lenin]

you mean working for mesa isnt that great?

[BobDDuck]

Be nice guys... He didn't ask what you thought of Mesa, he asked what you knew about 91 stuff.

I knows nossing... Nossing I say! Sorry.

[SFLAX]

To be honest, I have been pretty happy with my experience, I have learned alot. I never loved working for mesa, I just took offense to the people that had a hard on for saying stuff about mesa pilots. I think that is the lowest thing you can do, I have no respect for people that do that, just so they can feel better about themselves. And that is one of the biggest reasons I do not like this industry, the people that are so bitter that someone else is to blame. That is BS, I have been in the army for going on my 10th year, and i have seen this world from the flight deck to the ground pounding in a forgein country where no one is your friend. In this world you will always have from now on, someome trying to take, and at Mesa, that is not the case any more. the pilots do not want any more flying, they want a good contract. You people need to realize that. And just one more thing, it is not your flying it is someone elses, they are allowing you to fly it. But please ansewer my question, thanks.

[falconvalley]

Corps are all over the map for the questions you ask. You should ask questions about who does the maintenance (company or outsider, both can be good and bad); typical duty day versus longest duty day; days off- true days off or on-call; what non flying duties can be expected (some companies have non-flying tasks while some companies don't even have their pilots show up on non-flying days); how does the upgrade work and what are their expectations of you; overnights or typically just day trips...there are so many questions you can ask.

Do your homework on the company as best you can. Hopefully, they are financially sound, with a good future. Odds are, the flight department gets cut early during financial woes. With some companies, like banks for example, most of the employees don't even know their is a flight department. I had a Chief pilot tell me not to discuss the flight department with employees who never fly.

Also, if you can fly a few trips as a part-timer, that helps a ton. Many corps like to do that anyway, because they want to see how you really work with other people. Use those trips to see for yourself and also find out who really makes the different operational decisions. Do the pax just tell the flight dept where they want to go and leave it at that? Or do they try and micromanage go/no-go decisions...

There are so many good questions for part 91 ops...

[meritflyer]

Just remember, in corp flying if business goes south the flight dept. is usually the first thing to get the boot.

[Texasspilot]

Just a suggestion....

If your ultimate goal is NetJets then you need to stick out your current gig until you at least meet the minimums. From what I've been reading allot of the guys getting hired there right now are in the 3000+ hour range. Remember 91 depts generally don't fly much. Most I've seen range in the 250-500 hour a year. But if the job is good and you don't mind taking a little longer to get to your dream job then I would definatly do it. The corporate background couldn't hurt.

As for 91...I just did a little contract work but know a few guys who are on call 24/7 and hate it.

[NJA_Capt]

Originally Posted by Texasspilot

Just a suggestion....

If your ultimate goal is NetJets then you need to stick out your current gig until you at least meet the minimums. Remember 91 depts generally don't fly much. Most I've seen range in the 250-500 hour a year. But if the job is good and you don't mind taking a little longer to get to your dream job then I would definitely do it. The corporate background couldn't hurt.

Pretty sound advice to me

Originally Posted by Texasspilot

From what I've been reading allot of the guys getting hired there right now are in the 3000+ hour range.

More like 3000-20,000. If you want to know where your former CO, DO, or CP is.........