private jet travel option is the experience level of your flight crew. At Desert Jet, we place high importance on recruiting the most experienced and safest pilots in the country. We do thorough background checks during the recruitment process as well as numerous in-flight evaluations before ever extending an offer of employment. The result is that our pilots have perfect safety records and an average flight time of over 7500 hours. As a comparison, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) only requires a pilot to have 1500 hours of experience before captaining an aircraft. Most charter companies and fractional providers such as Netjets only require 2500 hours of experience, and don’t require their pilots to have flawless safety backgrounds. At Desert Jet, we require our pilots to have at least 5000 hours of experience before we allow them to captain one of our jets. In addition, we feel so strongly about the importance of providing an experienced flig...
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