Interesting, pilot salary study for 2012....

The lowest reported BE400a charter C/A salary is over $10,000/year more than I was making in that position. One suspects maybe these things skew high because some people are too embarrassed to report their earnings?
 
Boris Badenov said:
The lowest reported BE400a charter C/A salary is over $10,000/year more than I was making in that position. One suspects maybe these things skew high because some people are too embarrassed to report their earnings?
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Yeah, the Citation FO Low pay is reported as much higher than what I have heard (first hand) for a couple flight departments....
 
Learjet 45 numbers are pretty close, although the average for Captains is a few thousand dollars low for operators I am familiar with. (Part 91)
 
My aircraft isn't specifically listed, but similar types are, and it's pretty accurate.
 
UAL747400 said:
Pretty much! I've thought about getting a commercial addon myself if I ended up in Air Ambulance. Many of those operators seem to have helicopters as well.
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I thought about it, too. No one can deny that it's pretty awesome to show up in the Chariot of the Gods and Save the Day. But that's a hard freaking job. They fly more often, they are in much greater danger all the time, and, in the end, we're paid the same wage. Are they tougher than I am? No doubt. But their pre-flight alone takes 30 minutes. I can use about 20 of those minutes sleeping. Speaking of which, I'm getting tired.
 
They don't ever fly here. Something about LIFR and ice gets even the grisled helo pilots to say no thanks.
 
z987k said:
They don't ever fly here. Something about LIFR and ice gets even the grisled helo pilots to say no thanks.
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ALL the job postings I've seen around here are VFR only. Though, they fly in and out of downtown. Probably aren't any approaches to roof tops.:)
 
Boris Badenov said:
I thought about it, too. No one can deny that it's pretty awesome to show up in the Chariot of the Gods and Save the Day. But that's a hard freaking job. They fly more often, they are in much greater danger all the time, and, in the end, we're paid the same wage. Are they tougher than I am? No doubt. But their pre-flight alone takes 30 minutes. I can use about 20 of those minutes sleeping. Speaking of which, I'm getting tired.
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Totally, but to be honest, helicopters have always been more intriguing to me. I was just never interested in the cost, or the military to MAYBE get to fly. Looking at it later, a commercial addon would run what, about 10k? I'm not sure an operation would let you go fly their stuff with 15 hours or whatever though. :) ADM is mostly already there from fixed wing flying I imagine.
 
UAL747400 said:
ALL the job postings I've seen around here are VFR only. Though, they fly in and out of downtown. Probably aren't any approaches to roof tops.:)
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Yep, mostly on 135 VFR only certs, which makes them useless when 8 months of the year the weather is less than 1sm and 200ft ovc.
 
Realistically, even after you pay the more like ~20k to get a commercial rotorcraft, you'll have to do a couple of years flying tours in Vegas to be competitive for an EMS gig. It just doesn't make financial sense. But it is f'ing cool.
 
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