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March 19th, 2008, 16:25
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007
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|  Cape Air FOs Hey, I was wondering if there are any Cape Air FO's on here that could give me a run down. How many hours a month do you get to fly? Is the flying all over the place, since you fly when needed? Are you doing a lot of repo flights or 91 type stuff at all? Do you get to fly frieght and the mail when not doing SIC flights? Do they actually have FO type schedules? Thanks guys. |
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March 23rd, 2008, 20:43
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007
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| Re: Cape Air FOs Hiding eh? |
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March 23rd, 2008, 22:55
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Asheville/Hendersonville, NC
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| Re: Cape Air FOs ...Just make sure you don't have diabetes.
__________________ "We break, We bend, With hand in hand, When hope is gone, Just hang on." -Guster |
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March 24th, 2008, 05:11
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: De Land, FL,
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| Re: Cape Air FOs That is so wrong. Funny as shizzle but wrong.  |
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March 24th, 2008, 09:00
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: KSYR
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 Haha, so true. | |
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March 24th, 2008, 13:30
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007
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| Re: Cape Air FOs Funny yet, but that still leaves my question unanswered |
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March 24th, 2008, 15:01
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Sherborn, Massachusetts USA
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| Re: Cape Air FOs The Cape Air FO position is essentially a time-building position. Even though Cape Air's Op Specs states that the FO is only needed when the captain has less than 100 hours in type and the autopilot is broken, they try to fly them as much as possible. The flying is done mainly on the BOS-ACK runs, but with the new routes coming on line I don't know if they're putting FOs on those runs. Mainly they put them on the long runs because it gets them to that magic 1500 hour number quicker. Remember they want Captains ASAP. You don't get to fly the mail plane until you have like 1200 hours, so until then you're tagging along with a Captain. As an FO, you don't get a seniority number because you're technically not a crewmember. Although, there is something in the works for that to change. It's not a bad gig... you get to ease into the airline world and learn the ropes in what is essentially a paid internship program. Cape Air is a great airline... summers in NE and winters in the Caribbean, who can argue with that? With the instability in the world, I believe Cape Air is perfectly situated to ride out the uncertainty. Since their clientèle is mostly people with money to burn, they can charge anything and their customers will continue to pay it. If you've got money to burn why take the ferry when Cape Air can get you to ACK in 20 minutes?
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March 24th, 2008, 16:54
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007
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| Re: Cape Air FOs Thanks for the reply, I apprieciate it. Do you or anybody happen to know how they log it? Since its a single pilot op. |
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March 24th, 2008, 17:15
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Sherborn, Massachusetts USA
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| Re: Cape Air FOs I would log it as SIC, since that's what you are. On repo flights, you can log PIC.
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March 24th, 2008, 17:51
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: CT
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