How did you get started in freight?

turbo gti

turbo gti

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Just a newbie here wanting to know how you guys got started in freight. What did you do before. How much experience did you have when you got hired etc. :beer:
 
Flight instructed till 1300TT. Hired as 135 MEL freight PIC. Hired at dirtbag regional at 2500TT. Quit said dirtbag regional after 1 year. Moved to Europe for 4 years(Holland - loved it). Came back, worked stupid desk jobs till rehired last year at previous job as 135 MEL PIC(always do a good job and leave on good terms!!!!). Hired as 135 on-demand freight DA-20 f/o at 3500TT.

The plan: hoping to make PIC within 8-12 months. Atlas within 2 years after that:rawk:


Never going back to pax.




:tmi:???
 
I had 1100ish hours. The flight school I was working for pissed me off. I walked across the taxi way, interviewed, and was hired pending my reaching 1200 TT.
 
I got into a little bit differently...
I don't do freight full time, but extremely part time.

The mom'npop FBO I work for owns the 141 flight school and the on-demand 135 charter department.

I was hired as a flight instructor, hit the mins and got the nod to move into the charter side of the house. We only do freight when a freight company calls us to do a run. We have no dedicated runs, we are typically moving people. Though I love me some freight the most.

I had one pax raise hell to company that I went below mins....I broke out just past the FAF on a GPS approach. That sort of crap drove that BDB statement home.

"He flew through rain!"
 
KLB said:
Flight instructed to 1206hrs.
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AND then you had your buddy (*COUGH*) make a phone call for you, right? :)

A friend from JC got me in, then that opened the flood gates. The next thing we knew, KLB, propilot and pfactor8 were in class.

My first trainee at Amflight was Jayare.

It's a very small world.
 
I was kinda backwards: Had a real job for 20 years, working in an office making good coin, hating every second of it.

Quit my desk job with about 400 hours, CFI'd for another 900, got hooked up through a contact here on Jet Careers, started as a part-time guy two years ago and moved on to full-time (as much as I want, at least).

My one and only word of advice: Get stupid good instrument skills. I thought I was pretty good on the gauges when I got hired but I was wrong.
 
jtrain609 said:
My first trainee at Amflight was Jayare.

It's a very small world.
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I'm now a bad arse cargo cat freight mutherfer!

I had a friend who worked at AMF. I started with chartran and walked out during ground called AMF on the drive home with my friends referal. Had the interview the next week hired with around 1300hrs and JTrain and I almost died together with a near hit while training!

I know its a long run on sentance call the grammer nazi, Im tired I just hiked halfway up the grand teton today during the layover
 
CFI'd until 875 hours, got hired as a VFR 135 driver until 1200 hours and got my checkride for the IFR and never looked back. I vowed never to get into the pax biz until it was either corp or 135.
 
Traffic Watch in PHX. Then hired by a cargo operator flying PA-32/32Rs and C-207s out of P19/CHD in the southeast valley.........VFR and IFR 135 cargo.
 
jtrain609 said:
AND then you had your buddy (*COUGH*) make a phone call for you, right? :)

A friend from JC got me in, then that opened the flood gates. The next thing we knew, KLB, propilot and pfactor8 were in class.

My first trainee at Amflight was Jayare.

It's a very small world.
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You forgot to add that another JC'er gave me the hookup for free sim prep for the interview. The sim prep was done by yet another JC'er.:D
 
Flight instructed till 1060. Got some inside info from a JCer about Airnet. Hired. SIC'd at Airnet in Miami ftill 1200. Flew Barons and Van's out of St. Louis. Lear as co-pilot and then Captain out of Boston. Bayside came in and I lost my captain spot. Downgraded and sat reserve as co-pilot in Dallas. Downgraded again to the van. Took the checkride and jumpseated home in it and knew I wasn't going to fly that thing again. Called a JCer, walked my resume into AMF. Got a sim prep hookup from a JCer in Dallas. Interviewed and was in Metro class in less than a week. Quit 6 months later to fly corporate with a homosexual JCer.
Notice a trend?
 
Started flying Caravans for a UPS feeder in 2009. After bouncing around the regionals and a charter/fractional operator over a period of 5 years, decided to go the freight route. Had about 3000TT at the time.
 
Got the licenses in '05 - '06, instructed till '08 w/ ATP.

Got hired at Skywest, in early '08, and quit my job at ATP, only to have my class canceled 2 days prior and sent back to the pool... been swimming in it ever since.

Got hired a month after I got chunked back to the chlorine @ OO. Been freight dawgin' it in a DA-20 from mid '08 until June this year, got upgraded to PIC....

Boxes don't "Complain"
 
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