dumbpreloader
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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).