Driver to Pilot

[dumbpreloader]

Currently working preload and flight instructing at a university as well. The bare minimum hours you will need to get into a regional airline to get your ATP license without a degree in aviation will be 1,500. There is no chance UPS will hire someone who just hit their hours in a piston aircraft to get an ATP license, they save that training for the regional airlines. One lady that works the preload with me has a daughter that is flying first officer for UPS who worked the preload for her whole undergrad. She told me that working preload during college is the reason why she got the job. She built up time at a regional airline after getting her minimums at the regional paid for the ATP license and a type rating like most do. After flying for the regional for a while she went to a job fair and talked to some UPS recruiters who said she was still overqualified but her preload experience landed her an interview for the pilot position. Not sure if this would be the case now with all the pilots who have been laid off recently, some of which will already have type rating for the UPS fleet (this equals less training time and the less money UPS has to spend).

 

[over9five]

After flying for the regional for a while she went to a job fair and talked to some UPS recruiters who said she was still overqualified but her preload experience landed her an interview for the pilot position.

Just curious. Did you mean under-qualified?

 

[dumbpreloader]

Just curious. Did you mean under-qualified?

Yes under-qualified

 

[1989]

Hand to surface. Otherwise we are all pilots.

 

[rod]

Ask @FrigidFTSup -- he was going to be a pilot

 

[NAHimGOOD]

Drones count?

 

[rod]

We had a cute little blond gal preloader who was taking flying lessons and wanted to become a UPS pilot. The last I saw her I ran into her at the Minneapolis airport and she was flying the regional airplanes. I wonder what happened to her? Damn she was cute.

 

[oldngray]

We had a cute little blond gal preloader who was taking flying lessons and wanted to become a UPS pilot. The last I saw her I ran into her at the Minneapolis airport and she was flying the regional airplanes. I wonder what happened to her? Damn she was cute.

She might have made more as a preloader than as one of those regional pilots.

 

[barnyard]

She might have made more as a preloader than as one of those regional pilots.

There was an article in WaPo about the trailer cities for regional pilots that were near almost all major airports. If I remember, most of them were figuring that it would take 5 years minimum to make it past a regional airline.

 

[scratch]

This is me in the left seat of a UPS DC-8 at the Atlanta Airport. Notice the date. My old route was near the Atlanta Airport and had a large private lake with a bunch of Delta pilots living around it. A few of them told me they would rather fly for UPS. A couple of them shook my hand after we came back to work after the '97 Strike. We did have a UPS Co-pilot walk the picket lines with us.

 

[Operational needs]

@Jumpin Jack Flash went from pt sup to pilot.

Too bad @FrigidFTSup couldn't find out how to do that.

 

[NAHimGOOD]

This is me in the left seat of a UPS DC-8 at the Atlanta Airport. Notice the date. My old route was near the Atlanta Airport and had a large private lake with a bunch of Delta pilots living around it. A few of them told me they would rather fly for UPS. A couple of them shook my hand after we came back to work after the '97 Strike. We did have a UPS Co-pilot walk the picket lines with us.
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That's an episode of Magnum PI

 

[over9five]

That's an episode of Magnum PI

Hahahaha, I see it!
The original too, not the crappy new one!

 

[quad decade guy]

Currently working preload and flight instructing at a university as well. The bare minimum hours you will need to get into a regional airline to get your ATP license without a degree in aviation will be 1,500. There is no chance UPS will hire someone who just hit their hours in a piston aircraft to get an ATP license, they save that training for the regional airlines. One lady that works the preload with me has a daughter that is flying first officer for UPS who worked the preload for her whole undergrad. She told me that working preload during college is the reason why she got the job. She built up time at a regional airline after getting her minimums at the regional paid for the ATP license and a type rating like most do. After flying for the regional for a while she went to a job fair and talked to some UPS recruiters who said she was still overqualified but her preload experience landed her an interview for the pilot position. Not sure if this would be the case now with all the pilots who have been laid off recently, some of which will already have type rating for the UPS fleet (this equals less training time and the less money UPS has to spend).

And if there are two applicants with similar experience the chick is going to get the chance or minority or such.

That said, you are well informed and I appreciate it. Like I said, it can be done.

 

[silenze]

And if there are two applicants with similar experience the chick is going to get the chance or minority or such.

That said, you are well informed and I appreciate it. Like I said, it can be done.

Agreed. It used to be just management. Now it seems like every hire has a quota. We hired a ton of women last year.

 

[Not Rushin’]

Do they use PVD pilots ?

Don’t give them any ideas. Lol

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

Do they use PVD pilots ?

 

[Indecisi0n]

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Do you know where louisville kentucky is ?

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

Do you know where louisville kentucky is ?

I mean, it can't be that hard to find...right?

 

[Indecisi0n]

I mean, it can't be that hard to find...right?

Naa, we will print you directions.