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March 20th, 2008, 22:27
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 172
|  Hired!
Let's see, the tally for the week:
1. Training for the MEI and CFII: $1850.
2. Examiner fee for two checkrides $700
3. Two nights at the Country Hearth Inn in Siler City, NC: $120
4. Countless gallons of 87 octane: lost count
5. Hearing the pilot recruiter for Piedmont say "I'd like to offer you a class date of xxxx": priceless
(I don't think it's officially PFJ, but training for two instructor ratings for two days definitely helped me on my interview  )
Three days, two checkrides, and one interview later, and I'm beat. 3.5 years from cubicle to flight deck, if I can do it, anyone can. Stay the course, fellow cube monkeys!
Thanks JC,! | 
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March 20th, 2008, 22:32
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#2 | | Old Skool
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Paradise:)
Posts: 4,291
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Congrats  | |
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March 20th, 2008, 22:33
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: LAS - the northern part
Posts: 259
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Congratulations! Don't forget about us down in cubeland...maybe a wing dip every now and then for those of us still surrounded by 6 foot "walls".
Enjoy your new view!
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March 20th, 2008, 22:53
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Mesa Oeste
Posts: 1,106
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Awesome Congrats! Good luck in training! | |
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March 20th, 2008, 22:59
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#5 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: bako
Posts: 98
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hey thats awesome to hear!! hope it goes great for you!!
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March 20th, 2008, 23:45
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: KSTL
Posts: 434
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Congrats!
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March 21st, 2008, 10:12
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#7 | | Old Skool
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CFI / CFII in PA
Posts: 2,439
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nice job, sir! | |
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March 21st, 2008, 18:53
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: AZO
Posts: 1,249
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Welcome to PDT family. Any questions you might have for training, feel free to ask me or other fellow dash 8 pilots on JC.
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March 21st, 2008, 19:25
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Posts: 888
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congrats!!
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March 21st, 2008, 21:26
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rockledge FL
Posts: 608
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Congrats!!! Those two checkrides will be a nice warm up for the schoolhouse. Have fun 
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March 22nd, 2008, 00:11
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#11 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 172
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Originally Posted by adreamer  Welcome to PDT family. Any questions you might have for training, feel free to ask me or other fellow dash 8 pilots on JC. | Thanks all! Now to just find a way through all this literature they gave me prior to class 
Where are you based? I seem to remember you mentioning two hops to get to your base. | |
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March 22nd, 2008, 00:16
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#12 | | Old Skool
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: On top of Mt. Vandervere.
Posts: 1,747
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Congratulations! Quick work from the cube to an airline!!!
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March 23rd, 2008, 13:49
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#13 | | Old Skool
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Live in Temple, TX - From Ithaca, NY - Wish I was on an island in Fiji
Posts: 1,843
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Congrats Duck! Sounds like you arrived to play with Oscar right after I left!
What were your times? Is PDT hiring pretty regular right now?
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March 23rd, 2008, 14:30
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 172
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Originally Posted by LoadMasterC141 Congrats Duck! Sounds like you arrived to play with Oscar right after I left!
What were your times? Is PDT hiring pretty regular right now? |
Yeah, I didn't fly with Oscar last time, but did this time. He really knows his stuff. And Greg is a friggin' hoot.
Times were 375/30. They are running a class a month, not sure of the class sizes. There is some attrition due to the hiring agreement with mainline, but there is also some growth going on too, so that is feeding the demand. There was talk about adding/replacing some of the older aircraft (read: the -100s) with newer equipment, but no idea as to the timeline. | |
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March 23rd, 2008, 17:51
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#15 | | Old Skool
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Live in Temple, TX - From Ithaca, NY - Wish I was on an island in Fiji
Posts: 1,843
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Yeah Greg is awesome...thanks for the info and congrats!
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March 23rd, 2008, 19:22
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lucifer's Basement... Las Vegas
Posts: 647
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Originally Posted by adreamer Welcome to PDT family. Any questions you might have for training, feel free to ask me or other fellow dash 8 pilots on JC. | Good Job Dude!!!
Pretty soon you'll be enjoying the thrill of a 0427 report in Manchester in the winter time also 
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March 23rd, 2008, 19:25
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#17 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chicago
Posts: 164
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Good work man!!!
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March 24th, 2008, 09:57
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: AZO
Posts: 1,249
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Originally Posted by SRA_kbad Good Job Dude!!!
Pretty soon you'll be enjoying the thrill of a 0427 report in Manchester in the winter time also | I think I have done that already. But on the flip side, I am done by 1300 and hop on next flight for home.
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March 24th, 2008, 10:10
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#19 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 172
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Originally Posted by SRA_kbad Good Job Dude!!!
Pretty soon you'll be enjoying the thrill of a 0427 report in Manchester in the winter time also | Sounds like fun, who does the walk-around?
I was just getting used to sending my students out to do the preflight too... | |
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March 24th, 2008, 10:59
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Big D
Posts: 1,258
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Congrats!
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