Curious about Maldives

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A couple years back when I was still in school I remember getting all starry eyed about a company called Maldivian Air Taxi. When I was looking the company up it looked to be a decent operation with its pilots coming from Kenn Borek Air in Canada. After doing some more research tonight after a renewed interest in the company I found that they self-employ their pilots now. Which leads me to seek out some information if anyone out there knows anything?

What type of requirements might they have? I currently sit with 250 TT 50 ME with FAA certs. I'm working on getting my CFI and have every intention of using it for at least a two or three years before moving on. During that time I would obviously get the SES or MES Commercial License before even considering MAT.

My other questions are to anybody who has spent any time in the Maldives... What's it like? Expensive to live? Are living expenses paid by the company as I've read a few places?

I'm just feeling out for information and maybe looking for someone to ask questions if they've been there done that got the t-shirt. Thanks!

- Justin
 
They prefer to hire locals and you need to have decently impressive times plus a good reference to get hired if you're not from there. I know of a few pilots who instructed with me that were hired to fly for them.
 
From what I've read, pilots are supplied by Kenn Borek Air

On their site it says:

Minimum Requirements:

Applications: Captains require 2500 hours total time;
First Officers require 250 hours PIC, 500 hours total time, FLOAT RATING.

Preference is given to pilots with experience/ppc’s on our aircraft types and to those with some flying experience in the industry.

Applications: All hiring is done through our Calgary Base Head Office. Please email (Please put your name in the subject line.) a cover letter and resume to: pilotresume@borekair.com

At this time, Kenn Borek Air Ltd. is not hiring for the Pilot Team.​

Do you know if when they hire, if they reduce time for seaplane experience?
 
A buddy of mine works there, and got on there again this winter season. I think its doable, but you'll need some float time.
 
From what I have read/heard it seems to be more a retirement job for pilots, what they do after they've worked for a living. The times are no joke and the float plane experience will knock most guys right out of the resume stack. Still it looks AWESOME. Sadly the Maldives might not even exist by the time a lot of hopefuls will have the resume to work there.
 
E_Dawg said:
From what I have read/heard it seems to be more a retirement job for pilots, what they do after they've worked for a living. The times are no joke and the float plane experience will knock most guys right out of the resume stack. Still it looks AWESOME. Sadly the Maldives might not even exist by the time a lot of hopefuls will have the resume to work there.
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Not saying I know any better but I'd be interested to know who said you need a lot of time for the job. On Kenn Borek's website (the company their pilots used to be contracted through) you only needed 500 TT 250 PIC to be a SIC guy.

Not accusing anyone of being wrong about anything I just wanna confirm... am I way out of my league or is 500 TT actually realistic?

ppragman... PM sent.
 
Yes I meant as PIC, SIC I dunno! :) Just passing on what I have read on pprune.org, you'll have to search for it though.
 
I've found a few threads on them over a pprune.org but only through Google... I haven't registered over there to use the forum search engine. I've only found like 3 threads on them. Is there more? Or would I be wasting my time registering?
 
There's quite a bit of people posting over there about how great it is but nobody really seems to know what it takes to get in with this company. Looks like I need to start wandering around to find some Twotter pilots that might be in the know.
 
I know an Indian guy that flew for them (lots of pilots there are from Australia, NZ and Canada), also as SIC you need float time to be considered. I don't know if I would live there for long, it's nice for a vacation but after a while it gets boring, I lived in a small village in the Caribbean, it was not on an island but the only way to get there was by water or air, after 6 months I was going crazy, for sure a beautiful place to spend a vacation.
 
They're saturated right now with local pilots. One of my last students from the maldives came from MAT or TMA(I get them confused). He went back home to his job after his multi-commercial and is waiting for a flying position. From what I've heard Ken Borek is your best bet to get to the Maldives, or course you'll have to pay your dues in the North first.
 
Old Pete said:
Did you forget the sarcasm tag or are you serious?
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Well, they seem pretty serious about it:

Underwater-Cabinet-Meeting-Held-in-the-Maldives.jpg
 
Unfortunately, I think it is a real concern for the Maldives. When your islands are already so close to sea level it doesn't take much to put you under water. Hopefully the people of this beautiful place can find a new home should the unthinkable happen.
 
Guys,
Stop dreaming about a job there.
I had over 25 students from the Maldives (still have three). Only 2 got hired. There is a long wait list and pilots are unemployed. They will only hire loals, unless you have an ATP and 3000TT. In the Maldives, you have to know someone who knows someone that knows someone. For those of you with 250TT just get your CFI ratings and fly. Good luck!
 
Ami said:
Guys,
Stop dreaming about a job there.
I had over 25 students from the Maldives (still have three). Only 2 got hired. There is a long wait list and pilots are unemployed. They will only hire loals, unless you have an ATP and 3000TT. In the Maldives, you have to know someone who knows someone that knows someone. For those of you with 250TT just get your CFI ratings and fly. Good luck!
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:yeahthat:

Thats pretty much what I said!
 
Ami said:
Guys,
Stop dreaming about a job there.
I had over 25 students from the Maldives (still have three). Only 2 got hired. There is a long wait list and pilots are unemployed. They will only hire loals, unless you have an ATP and 3000TT. In the Maldives, you have to know someone who knows someone that knows someone. For those of you with 250TT just get your CFI ratings and fly. Good luck!
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My friend got hired there with 400TT and ASES, no AMES but most of his time was in ME land. He is Indian with Australian/FAA CPL....

outside the US there is not much meritocracy, for most flying jobs you need to know somebody.
 
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