>>1893130It's all deserved. Maintenance, payroll, HR, they're all fuck ups. YMMV on your fellow pilots.
In fact, they don't have a FAA approved 135 SIC PDP, the program where a copilot can log real time in the right seat of an otherwise single pilot type aircraft. They literally just don't tell the copilots (specifically in the Metro, but historically in the Beeches) that they can't log their flight time and no one has called them on it. I too fell for this scheme and upgraded on flight time that wasn't legally loggable, like most former non E120/Saab Ameriflight FOs. Before some fellow former Amflighter says some dumb shit, the allowance for an SIC to log time 'Only usable towards a Part 135 upgrade' expired in Jan 2019, and the FAA wouldn't let them renew it because the SIC PDP became available in 2018. Obviously there's more backend to this, I've simplified it where possible.
Also, the whole UPS flow they've got going is a sham. all the yuppies that were in it have been leaving for better jobs, especially since one of the star children finished the program, was denied a FO job at UPS, and then ollied a Metro into a golf course a month later (totally unrelated). Can't say I blame them, work 6 days a week for years only to have UPS deny your flow for no apparent reason, meanwhile you could be at a Legacy if you had gone to a regional instead. You know, getting jet, crew, Part 121, FMC time with half a month off at a time. lol
They also recently removed their DFW Metro base, told their DFW based Metro captains, no worries guys, we'll positive space you or give you a transition to another DFW airplane. Then they told all the DFW Metro FOs that they have a week to move to El Paso without any help from the company or they're in violation of their training contracts.
Moral of the story is, if you want that job, make it work for your benefit. Don't take a SIC job on a single pilot plane, don't sign a training contract. Quit the second something better comes around.
