What are the pitfalls for new-hires?
There are two major items that will wash you out. First, your instrument skills must be up to ATP standards. This means if your last 100 hours were dual-given, you might be rusty in the left seat. Moreover, you should be ready for a check ride in about 4-6 hours of flight time; prior wash-outs have all stated that this is reasonable, except they did not have recent stick time. Therefore, we strongly suggest you grab a safety pilot and do a couple of mock instrument check rides prior to coming to Ram Air Freight, preferably in a Piper Arrow, Lance or Seneca, or at least in something high-performance, shooting approaches at 120 KIAS. Second, if you think RAF is like the half-baked charter operator on the other side of your home airport, you are mistaken. Our training is intense and professional, involving PowerPoint presentations, hands-on emergency drills, GPS simulation and written examinations. Again, just to re-emphasize — there is a DIRECT CORRELATION between recency of flight expe
