I have heard that. We will see how it goes. Thanks for the input.From what I understand it's pretty cut throat to get full time hours. I've heard of people showing up in their days off hoping someone was a minute late so they could take the late person's shift.
The Academy its self isn't too bad of a campus to work in.
From what I understand, the FAA Academy will be really busy for awhile due to a backlog of students. My interviewer stated that next year will be gangbusters because they have to make up for the shut down that happened last year during the sequester. So it seems that getting hours for the forseeable future will not be a problem.From what I understand it's pretty cut throat to get full time hours. I've heard of people showing up in their days off hoping someone was a minute late so they could take the late person's shift.
The Academy its self isn't too bad of a campus to work in.
I saw this job advertised here in Vegas not long ago. I have no clue what a Remote Pilot Operator is or does.
An RPO makes computer entries to fly the planes in an ATC simulator as well as act as the pilot of each plane on the "radio" and other controllers on the landlines.
Seems like you could come up with a call center, place it in Daytona, pay a bunch of students part time, and save money.
NoDo you think an RPO postition can lead to other aviation jobs?
Not even a UAV job?
Not even a UAV job?
I have a couple friends that do it but they are based in Socal. They love it. They basically just mess with the controllers that are training by controlling planes and/or vehicles on the airport. They have a huge simulator that they use to run through scenarios. KONT had a runway closed for a couple days and the controllers did training there to practice new procedures. So the RPO just presses the buttons that gets the planes on the runway or taxi way, just play pretend pilot. Try and mess up to see how the controller reacts to certain things.
I only know of this job being full time, and I heard it looks good on your resume when/if you apply for the academy. They pay isn't bad from what I heard. If you need more info you can PM me.
I almost took this job in Socal but ended up in Europe instead.
I have a friend who did the RPO thing for a while when he was between flying jobs. Seemed like a decent enough gig from the outside looking in... If I recall right, the pay was in the mid 40's.
@LaserRacer , care to chime in?
Speaking from experience, No. Also, you get a UAV job through military service, or luck.Not even a UAV job?
Probably facing being fired all the time though. When I was at the academy it was OU instructors and RPO's and Raytheon or maybe Lock Mart at my facility. They got unified, the entire cadre drove to the center to interview for their jobs, two of three retained their positions and I believe we're at the same 2 full timers and 8 part timers now. We had 56 controllers my first day, we're at about 30, half are back as contractors.