But this isn't the issue. PC12 and PA31 are completely different in market niche, not to mention production era.endless wrote:Everyone on here who's flown both seems to think the PC-12 is the superior plane, myself included.
The question was: For a first, low time job, what is better right seat PC12 or PA31.
I take better to mean: Which will-
1 - provide opportunity to upgrade left seat sooner.
2 - increase marketability to future employers.
I say you will:
1 - likely upgrade sooner to left seat in a navajo.
2 - with the multi pic you get after going left seat in the -ho move on to a mult-turbine machine and be able to continue upgrading to the left seat.
I hear the guys saying at their company you move PC12 captain to BE02 captain with little to no multi time let alone multi pic. But I think it is more the exception than the rule... and the question was not "What is better PC12 at Wasaya vs. PA31 at Weagamow?" so I think it needs to be looked at in more general terms...
Besides if I was CP I would appreciate the fact I'd be hiring a guy who had hand flown the last 1500 hours because there's no autopilot/fms/moving map/whatever other "superior" things the PC12 has...
And EFIS is easier to learn than to unlearn IMO.
Again - not speaking to quality of machine - just what is going to get you in a better career postion quicker.
Maybe the question should be right seat PC12 vs. a new King Air 90...