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Chieftain pay used to be lower than it is now. Those guys got a $3,000 a year pay hike shortly after I left.
 
tbmpilot said:
Don't forget, indoc first week is unpaid, and training after the first week is paid at a minimum hourly wage times the number of actual hours trained. This will definitely be much less than 40 hours per week. You have to be prepared to sustain at a very low income level for six to eight weeks.
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My first pay check at min wage was more then my 40 units of PA31 pay. I was paid every hour for the sit in MYF or whatever airport that is in SD.
 
N8389P said:
My first pay check at min wage was more then my 40 units of PA31 pay. I was paid every hour for the sit in MYF or whatever airport that is in SD.
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Not sure what services you were providing to the training captain, but my paychecks felt like a bad bj... :)
 
tbmpilot said:
Not sure what services you were providing to the training captain, but my paychecks felt like a bad bj... :)
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Some training captains knew how to work the system, they'd get run with a lot of flight time, a training flight while on the layover, a ground session, and another training flight after the run was over. This gave me a really good training check! I was very prepared for the ride!
 
JayAre said:
Beech 1900! And we didn't underbid anything. UPS wanted our 1900 back on that run.
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Correct. We bid 2 caravans which was cheaper (I think??) but UPS wanted only 1 airplane doing it. I'm not sure why, I doubt that thing runs even half full... but whatevah :p
 
KLB said:
Some training captains knew how to work the system, they'd get run with a lot of flight time, a training flight while on the layover, a ground session, and another training flight after the run was over.
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Some? That is training captain 101! It was a pretty good deal once you got used to not being able to sleep away your layover. Extra pay, lots of flight time, and no rotting away in a hotel room all day. :)
 
EatSleepFly said:
Some? That is training captain 101! It was a pretty good deal once you got used to not being able to sleep away your layover. Extra pay, lots of flight time, and no rotting away in a hotel room all day. :)
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I guess I got ripped off. I was only given one offline training flight in the 99.
 
tbmpilot said:
I guess I got ripped off. I was only given one offline training flight in the 99.
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Good point... I guess it depends on the training captain. Once in awhile if we had enough pilots I would do online training, but not very often. I didn't become a Be-99 TC until after I was a line pilot in the Metro. At the time we were usually short-staffed in the Metro, so in order for me to be able to do any training, I'd have to fly the Metro to someplace where there was also a 99 laying over to use. The run I usually bid was the old SLC-BIL run, which worked out perfect. Since they always had a couple of spares up there and it was a mx base anyways, if we broke a plane while training it wasn't a scramble to get a recovery like it was at regular outstations.
 
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