1475TT 350TW 600 AK Looking for Work

KKochan

KKochan

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I'm currently working in Alaska, but leaving my current company for some private reasons. Not opposed to staying up here at all, I enjoy the flying. Not interested in 121 at the moment. I do not meet 135 IFR mins, but could build some night time to do so for the right job.

1475TT 650+ Alaska 500 C207 and 350TW (mostly pa18) ATP written complete.

CSEL IFR. Looking to add the multi in the next few weeks.

Most important to me is either a good schedule with time off, or based in a location where there's lots of outdoors stuff to do.

Thanks!
 
Yute? Ryan Air? Bering Air? Desert Air? Grant? Alaska Air Transit? Homer Air? FAI- and SE-based air ambulance? In the spring: K2, Talkeetna Air Taxi. I'm forgetting several, but I'm sure @ppragman can expand the list.
 
Dude, call me. I'll hook you up at Seaport. You're 25 hours away from being a 135 captain. I'll help you get there. I can put the bug in our CPs ear personally deliver your resume and get the ball rolling.
 
Roger Roger said:
Do your career a favor while you're young and flexible and go 121.
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Yeah while I can I probably should try it out. Might even like it.. I have the ATP written done. Need my multi (easy) and 20 hours more multi total, along with about 35hrs night. I can nail all that out pretty quick.
 
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KKochan said:
Yeah while I can I probably should try it out. Might even like it.. I have the ATP written done. Need my multi (easy) and 20 hours more multi total, along with about 35hrs night. I can nail all that out pretty quick.
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Not to be excessively down on 135, as it's been if not good to me at least very interesting and educational, and developed me as a pilot, mechanic, and person far beyond what I ever would have thought. However, some of the tough, unsafe, and on occasion just outright bizarre crap I've put up with along the way makes me say that if you want to fly planes and have a relatively low bs job with at least a chance at upward movement, go 121 early and often especially now that things are moving in the industry. Just my 2 cents.
 
KKochan said:
I'm currently working in Alaska, but leaving my current company for some private reasons. Not opposed to staying up here at all, I enjoy the flying. Not interested in 121 at the moment. I do not meet 135 IFR mins, but could build some night time to do so for the right job.

1475TT 650+ Alaska 500 C207 and 350TW (mostly pa18) ATP written complete.

CSEL IFR. Looking to add the multi in the next few weeks.

Most important to me is either a good schedule with time off, or based in a location where there's lots of outdoors stuff to do.

Thanks!
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I just saw on the Orange site that Ryan Air is looking for a CASA 212 FO
 
ocdflyboy said:
I just saw on the Orange site that Ryan Air is looking for a CASA 212 FO
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No offense to my former employer (god bless them because they did hire me), but please do not go there. You will be locked into a 1.5 year long contract, and upgrading to CASA captain there requires 4000 hours. The pay is all right, but other bush operators like Bering compensate far better than Ryan for doing the same job. Plus a lot of CASA FOs eventually suffer from physical ailments from all the physical exertion demanded of that position...it's not for every pilot out there, but not to say that you may not enjoy it....
 
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Cloud Surfer said:
No offense to my current employer (god bless them because they did hire me), but please do not go there. You will be locked into a 1.5 year long contract, and upgrading to CASA captain there requires 4000 hours. The pay is all right, but other bush operators like Bering compensate far better than Ryan for doing the same job. Plus a lot of CASA FOs eventually suffer from physical ailments from all the physical exertion demanded of that position...it's not for every pilot out there, but not to say that you may not enjoy it....
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I am going to have to agree. It isn't as bad in the Sled though.
 
Cloud Surfer said:
No offense to my current employer (god bless them because they did hire me), but please do not go there. You will be locked into a 1.5 year long contract, and upgrading to CASA captain there requires 4000 hours. The pay is all right, but other bush operators like Bering compensate far better than Ryan for doing the same job. Plus a lot of CASA FOs eventually suffer from physical ailments from all the physical exertion demanded of that position...it's not for every pilot out there, but not to say that you may not enjoy it....
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Triple Mailer back?
 
Anyone know the CASA/1900 sic pay/schedule details at Bering Air? I can get my multi within a few weeks. They're accepting applications on their site.
 
KKochan said:
Anyone know the CASA/1900 sic pay/schedule details at Bering Air? I can get my multi within a few weeks. They're accepting applications on their site.
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Schedule is fifteen days on, thence followed by fifteen off--similiar to the schedules of most of the bush operators. They are in CASS and have jumpseat agreements with most of the major players present out there. I remember seeing their CASAs operating both in Nome and Kotzebue, so you would be housed in a company-provided communal with other Bering pilots during a rotation. I'm not too sure about the pay, but they do offer a daily rate...about $225 I heard from someone not affiliated with them, last I heard back in February 2015.
 
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