C172 aerial mapping (northern states)

The weight thing is pretty ridiculous. We all had a ton of stuff packed in our planes along with the rig and I never saw anyone that was going to be overweight. Perhaps seatbelt a suitcase in the front seat for w/b but total weight I never had a problem. NS is obsessed to irrational levels with fuel burn so that is probably what this is stemming from. He likes to burn up engines to save .5 gal/hr so just expect that if you get there. If you burn more than 5.5-6 gal/hr he'll be all over it.
 
Meh, if you lean the thing properly at the right power settings you'll never have a problem. The only time I burnt a "higher" level of fuel was on Christmas Day when my wife was sitting at the airport and we had around two hours left on a project. I definitely wasn't going to hold back my power settings in that situation… Still never heard a peep out of Nick. It's better than having to check in and get a flight release for EVERY flight and also get permission to leave or not fly due to weather, like an other vendor made their pilots do. Picto vendors are picto vendors... They're just means to an end.
 
Sol Rosenburg said:
The weight thing is pretty ridiculous. We all had a ton of stuff packed in our planes along with the rig and I never saw anyone that was going to be overweight. Perhaps seatbelt a suitcase in the front seat for w/b but total weight I never had a problem. NS is obsessed to irrational levels with fuel burn so that is probably what this is stemming from. He likes to burn up engines to save .5 gal/hr so just expect that if you get there. If you burn more than 5.5-6 gal/hr he'll be all over it.
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Lol, he definitely doesn't "like" to burn up engines. With the EGTs he has installed on his aircraft, it's pretty easy to manage the mixture setting.
 
Finny said:
You'd probably have better luck at Landcare.
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From Landcare's website:
Landcare Aviation, Inc requires each pilot to hold a Commercial certificate with Instrument rating, a current Class II medical, and a Passport. Pilots should have 500 hours total time, must be current, and must have completed FAA course ALC-55: Washington DC Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA)

If they really do hire below 500TT thats cool beans!
 
Does anyone know if the aerial survey companies are flying glass or steam. So far in my training I've been spoiled by a G1000.
 
blaquehawk99 said:
Does anyone know if the aerial survey companies are flying glass or steam. So far in my training I've been spoiled by a G1000.
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Air America has 1 G1000 picto plane running around, but it goes to the most senior Skyhawk pilot 99% of the time, so unless you're in your second season at least don't count on flying it.
 
blaquehawk99 said:
From Landcare's website:
Landcare Aviation, Inc requires each pilot to hold a Commercial certificate with Instrument rating, a current Class II medical, and a Passport. Pilots should have 500 hours total time, must be current, and must have completed FAA course ALC-55: Washington DC Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA)

If they really do hire below 500TT thats cool beans!
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I was hired with 276 hours and an internal rec, so it does happen.
 
Anybody have any idea of what typical pay, per diem, benefits, hours per year, etc looks like? Any turbine and/or ME operators doing picto?
I'm married, but I can go "on the road" for work if I need to. Just trying to see if it's financially feasible for me or not.
 
modernicarus said:
Anybody have any idea of what typical pay, per diem, benefits, hours per year, etc looks like?
I'm married, but I can go "on the road" for work if I need to. Just trying to see if it's financially feasible for me or not.
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Keep in mind this "on the road" isn't like a week or two or a typical airline pilot schedule.


This is 7 months and you may go home 2 times in that period of time.
 
JordanD said:
Shouldn't be a problem as long as you can use Excel. Me and a few other guys at Air America had Macs and I'm 99% sure all the vendors probably do the same paperwork.
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I had lots of issues with his specific logging software but using chrome or some other browser than safari it was fine however there was absolutely no editing of info once submitted so it had to be perfect or you had to call to reset your day's work and start it all over again.

project files could be downloaded with any ftp
 
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