Hard to tell what happened from what you wrote. Only thing I can think of is they secured the bleed air on one engine for some type of failure. That would put them in a single pack operation. Single pack flight can have altitude restrictions. Often as low as 25,000 feet depending on the aircraft...
Flying can and will be a great career. There are many good jobs outside the major airlines and hiring is going to be substantial. Yes there has been a lot of hiring the last 10 years but many were older pilots who will retire in the next 20 years.
The part I see overlooked again and again is...
It would need to be a clean sheet engine to get into higher HP. The reduction unit might be the biggest issue. I suspect they have something under development but it’s probably 10 years away.
They love military training and time. Get on with a regional and knock out another 1000 and you should be in good shape. Be aware however that at the majors they fully understand mil time. They might question 1000 hours without becoming a AC for example.
Rotax engines are shut down by killing the ignition systems like a car. Lycomings and Continentals are shutdown by cutting fuel flow. Ignition cutoff is instant. Fuel flow cutoff not so fast and many systems don’t kill the fuel flow completely with the mixture in idle cutoff as they age.
American runs a major operation out of Miami. It’s heavily ATC impacted. It’s good American blocks rooms. If you fly Breeze they might offer to let you sleep on the terminal floor.
Breeze hired so many FO’s with extremely limited experience that currently they are trying to hire direct entry Captains to staff aircraft deliveries. They have yet to have a profitable quarter and after proclaiming they were so well financed they would need zero future funding just borrowed a...
I would spend a bit of time reading up on the engine. It has lots of problems beyond the contaminated turbine section.
Here are a few and on 22 Mar the FAA indicated it may require additional rotor replacement on many engines.
Combustion chamber failures, 25% degradation in coastal...
A good pilot uses all available information in the pattern. He scans outside, listens to the radio, makes proper radio calls and checks ADSB data. He also flies a proper pattern. The last is often the biggest mistake.
It has not been released at this point what happened. It’s possible it was the switch but even if the switch actuated the seat full forward it should not have caused a control displacement unless the pilot was in a odd position or obese.There are lots of other scenarios where the controls could...