Original Message

How much importance do companies put on IFR experience. It seems most IFR bases never fly IFR. I was told that guys with no IFR time will get hired because of the current pilot shortage. Is there a chance of getting hired in a twin at an "IFR" base in HAA with the intention of never taking an IFR checkride.

It's not that I don't want to better myself, it's just that as a civilian trained guy I've had no chance to get actual. I don't feel like dropping $10k for the training to get current, and I hear that companies expect you to ready to go after 4 hours of training and a day or two of ground school. I'm not that smart and am not going to put myself in a fail situation.

Is it time companies started to do full IFR training and not just pushing guys out the door with the minimum.

Ex: One guy I know got the 'HAA IFR training' only to scare the crap out of himself the first time he went IMC. He had 50 hours in his logbook, but it was made up of hood and sim time with only 15 hours of actual as a co-pilot in an airplane.

Seems it would be smart for the companies to have a co-pilot system on medium twins to get guys like me up to speed. I would sign up for that. Kind of like they do it in Europe.