Aerial Mapping Pilots Needed

Do these places pay for travel expenses or is that on the pilot? I'd imagine they'd pay but with the way aviation is these days anything is possible I guess. I'd be highly interested in it these sorts of jobs being a 400 hour pilot
 
Sent in my resume to Landcare. After reading through this thread it seems like a good alternative to flight instructing.
 
Cory Trevor said:
Sent in my resume to Landcare. After reading through this thread it seems like a good alternative to flight instructing.
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Yeah, I agree. I was instructing for about 6 months. I sent Landcare (as well as a few others) my resume last week. Hope we hear something :)
 
Ha! Good luck aak! An old chief pilot of mine there whom i didnt much care for (not mr p. I actually highly respected him) once explained to me how i wasnt worth the 24k a year i was making; the experience i brought to the table wasnt worth it to the company because if i left he would have my replacement within the hour. Sadly at the time he was right. But that was then.

Sounds like they took his opinion to heart finally. I hope they pay for that one.
 
chaser918 said:
Ha! Good luck aak! An old chief pilot of mine there whom i didnt much care for (not mr p. I actually highly respected him) once explained to me how i wasnt worth the 24k a year i was making; the experience i brought to the table wasnt worth it to the company because if i left he would have my replacement within the hour. Sadly at the time he was right. But that was then.

Sounds like they took his opinion to heart finally. I hope they pay for that one.
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Yeah, the old CP......he was......special. I hope he's happier where he's at now. Mr P has a line of people waiting for spots to open and the pay drop actually happened months ago...maybe when you were still there.
 
Cory Trevor said:
I received an e-mail back from Landcare and finally finished the application and sent it back to them.
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Are they doing any hiring now? I sent in a resume back when I had less than 500hrs a while back, didn't get a reply. I updated it with a resume a week or two ago and have not gotten a reply.
 
KKochan said:
Are they doing any hiring now? I sent in a resume back when I had less than 500hrs a while back, didn't get a reply. I updated it with a resume a week or two ago and have not gotten a reply.
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Not sure, I didn't get a reply for about 3 weeks, which was 2 weeks ago, which told me to fill out an application. I didn't get around to filling it out until now so I hope so
 
I sent a resume a little less than a month ago and got the "fill out this application" email within a few days. Nothing new since then.
 
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The Picto vendors usually have a lot of spots to fill in the Fall and it can get pretty hectic on their part. You might want to make it easy for them by letting them know you're ready for all the time on the road and why you're so certain that you can handle it. I think a lot of people that apply have found their circumstances in life change or they never understood the requirements of the job. I think I lucked into an interview a few years back, because a lot of the initial applicants that were high on their list couldn't uproot themselves for the requirements of the job.

There are some other companies that do aerial survey looking for low time pilots. I remember an ad in Lawrence, KS for a survey company that wasn't a picto vendor looking for 172 pilots, but I have no idea where they were based out of. If you want to spend some time on google I don't think it would take more than a few hours to track many of the other survey companies out there.

There are still a lot of great time builders out there for low-time guys who don't mind relocating. There was an ad just a few days ago on Climbto350 looking for traffic watch pilots to fly 172s in Dallas and San Francisco. I'm not familiar with the company, but a few of the guys I've bull•ted with in FBOs that have good jobs now seemed to really enjoy doing it when they were younger.

Also openings do happen throughout the course of the season. My first season with one of the vendors we had two guys hired a month to two months into the season and then another two hired towards the end of it. Don't get discouraged. There are a ton of opportunities out there and it's easy to get down on yourself when you think of how you get that initial time. The hiring processes at these companies are hard to explain and I always scratched my head a bit about how I was able to secure a position with the best vendor out there. That said I'd have happily gone to any of the other vendors back then and it seems like the some of the other vendors have been upping their pay as they have found it more difficult to get pilots.
 
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I didn't want to fill the page with your entire quote, but thank you! Very good and encouraging info, I think the idea about telling an employer that you're aware of the details of the job is a great idea. I'll write something up for myself.
 
KKochan said:
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Not a bad idea. Great idea for the survey positions that have you away from home months on end.

But it might be a tad overkill for companies like Aperture and AAK. It's a 8 on 6 off schedule year round... No seasonal stuff.

However it may be a good idea to say somewhere in your cover letter that the aerial mapping industry interests you.
 
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