Amflight lowers minimums

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jtrain609

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Heya everybody,


I wanted to wait until it was on climbto350.com, but the minimums to come in and be a training captain here in the Chieftain have been lowered to 500 hours total time.

This is a great opportunity to come get your seniority number early at a great company and be logging turbine PIC time in under 12 months. PM me for details and how to snag the interview.
 
Sorry, I should have made this clear. I kind of forget that not everybody knows Amerispeak.

A training captain is a teacher, and hence we need to have guys that are applying for this job to at least have their CFI/II and we prefer the MEI. We hire flight instructors to do this job for the most part.

This is NOT a line pilot position.
 
Would you go from Chieftain training CA to Chieftain line pilot at 1200 hours, or are you pretty much stuck in the training CA role?
 
Upgrades are usually based on seniority rather than times. So if you start as a training captain at five hundred hrs, you'd probably be pretty deep in the seniority list when get the times to get on the line. So your seniority would most likely allow you to go right into the 99.
 
KLB said:
Most likely, you'd go on line straight into the 99 when you hit 1200 hrs.
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And what is funny is you'll take a pay hit going to the line.


I also heard a rumor that AMF was going to start doing what airnet does by hiring 600-800 hour guys, flying them in the right seat till they hit the numbers and then snagging them for a year with a contract, any truth to this?
 
who will you be training? And how would a MEI be "preferred"? wouldn't a job like this in a chieftain make an MEI a requirement?
 
flymo said:
Could you give a quick job description for a training captain at Ameriflight? Thanks
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To my knowledge, the job requires the training of canidates to be line pilots. This includes coordinating and performing some of the ground sessions, sim, sessions, flight training. There are also some executive responsibilities.

I'm a line guy. Jtrains a training captain. He probably can describe it better.

Hootie9750 said:
I also heard a rumor that AMF was going to start doing what airnet does by hiring 600-800 hour guys, flying them in the right seat till they hit the numbers and then snagging them for a year with a contract, any truth to this?
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Probably so, but I hope it never happens. One of the coolest aspects of the job is going it alone and doing it yourself. Either way I'll be in the 99 shortly.


butt said:
who will you be training? And how would a MEI be "preferred"? wouldn't a job like this in a chieftain make an MEI a requirement?
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You will be training people to be line pilots. Since you can train under Part 135, you don't really even need a CFI certificate to do any of the training. I don't quite know how the part 91/135 rules for training go together here. Again, I'm a line pilot not a training captain. So I don't know all the good stuff.

Jtrain, Where are you?:)
 
I find this mildly amusing. Why, exactly, do we need to lower the mins and attract low-time training captains when we can't fill Chieftain classes? No classes means no one for them to train. Not to mention we have line-qualified training captains all over the system who are just flying the line by themselves, not training anyone. If this is their way of recruiting eventual line pilots in some convoluted, roundabout way, it's ass backwards.
 
EatSleepFly said:
attract low-time training captains when we can't fill Chieftain classes?
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"Low time"? Weren't the mins 700 TT prior to this? Wow, 200 hours less of C152 pattern flyin'! Planes are gonna be dropping from the sky now! :sarcasm:

I always find it ass backward the way training works in aviation. Newly minted CFI's teaching private pilots. "Low time" CFI's and AGI's teaching ground school at the airlines (regional and majors). It's just the way it is.

And if Amflight has a problem filling classes it's their own doing. I applied there back in the CFI days and never heard anything...at all...even though I received maybe two dozen phone calls/emails from other operators. Maybe they should try calling the people who apply?
 
I just meant low time as in lower than 135 mins.

My point was that the solution to a shortage of line pilots isn't to hire more instructors who can't fly the line.

And finally, I agree- our "recruiting" department, as it were, is a joke. Not that it matters, who wants to come fly ancient airplanes when they can go fly brand new jets with 700 hours? Only crazy people like me, and I think we're a very small minority. Then, of the people we do get, half can't fly and wash out. I just can't for the life of me figure out why we are hiring more instructors. Maybe I will call and inquire about this dumb idea later... that would be fun. :cwm27:
 
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