Low-time jobs?

John2375 said:
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Canada has a TON of vfr low time flying jobs at around 250 hrs, just got to search around up there...
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Can we Americans just apply or is there any kind of license-conversion thing to do, or do they just accept American pilot's commercial licenses "as-is" ?[/quote]


Im not totally sure, You would need to apply for a canadian license I persume. I came from canada to the USA and had to fax copies of canadian medical/license to get FAA ones. And im totally not sure how canadian immigration works, I know all to well how the US immigration does tho :)
 
I'm pretty sure IFR mins are 1300. How do they allow you to log time in th eright seat in a single pilot a/c? I'm not disputing anything, I'm just wondering what they operate under.

Also, I think I would take airnet over one of the regionals. Isn't first year pay in the low to mid 30s? I've also heard it's a one year upgrade into their lear, then another year into the left seat. All while getting paid at about the same level as a regional capt.

I'm just not sure that I want to keep flying Carter Reagan era twins in thunderstorms and icing. Did that enough this summer timebuilding.
 
John2375 said:
I like the idea of flying skydivers though, if I could find a place w/a C-182 and a twin so there'd be both options.....
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I would caution against this, as you won't be logging much if any instrument time or cross country time, important columns to be logging in if you plan to move on, especially for a freight company. If you could CFI part time you could probably rack up hours pretty quickly. I have a friend at skywest who flew his last 700 hours or so (to get 135 mins) simply by traffic watch, and then went to fly 135 freight at Ram Air for about 6 months before getting a call from skywest.

IFR Mins: 1200 Total Time, 500 xcty (point to point), 100 night, 75 instrument
 
FlyChicaga said:
get your CFI ... it will be more rewarding flying than you'll find in any other entry-level flying jobs.
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Have you done other entry-level flying jobs in addition to CFIing to qualify this statement?

I didn't instruct - I did banners, aerial survey and aerial photography for my entry-level flying and experience-building. I can't claim that these jobs were more or less rewarding then instructing - BUT they provided me with great flying experience in various ways.

When you are a low-time guy, you have many boxes to check. Total time, instrument time, cross-country time, night time, multi time, etc. Whatever flying you do will give you SOME type of good experience, whether it entails instructing or some other type of 'commercial' flying. It's all good.
 
Very interesting - unfortunatly none in the Tampa area though!
I found this interesting: "You must also be completely comfortable flying from the right seat in varying weather conditions including gusty crosswind takeoffs and landings. "
Why do you have to fly from the right seat? Wouldn't it make more sense to fly from the left seat and have the traffic reporter on the right???

This was interesting too:

Please also understand that somebody who's fresh out of ERAU isn't going to work. Flying (as opposed to instructing) from the right seat out of a 3000' runway in 20+ knot crosswinds, reading the weather through the windshield, and dealing with Washington area airspace and security issues are a far cry from instructing out of an airport with a bunch of 5000'+ runways where one is always pointed into the wind. That program may be fine for an airline where you're never going to see short runways and crosswinds and you're always going to have somebody else in the cockpit and a huge support staff to cover you, but for the real world of GA down here in the trenches it's just not useful.

Please also understand that I cannot, under any circumstances, use someone who's fresh out of ERAU. Just because they told you that you know everything doesn't mean it's true. Been there & done that. I've been disappointed by enough of these people to crew an entire airline.
 
"I've been disappointed by enough of these people to crew an entire airline."

HA. Now's that's funny. Wonder what he'd think about a 250 hour Flight Safety direct track wonder?
 
John2375 said:
This was interesting too:...
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Where did you come up with this at? Sounds like the owner was burned in the past by pilots fresh out of the pilot mill. It specifically mentioned ERAU?
 
A couple of questions for the guy.

Lots of big talk, but how much cash does he pay for such a demanding job?

Secondly, a pilot mill like ERAU is bad, but a pilot mill like Comair is good? Aroo?!

Puleeeze.
 
Oh I know. I blast ERAU because I want their program to do better. Thank goodness they got rid of that doofus CAPT program. That was starting to sound a lot like a central-inland florida flight school north of Orlando.
 
There are plenty of jobs in Alaska that will hire people with no Ak time. Also flying jumpers won't cause you not to get hired by anybody. I know a guy who got 1300hrs T-Pic in a Twotter flying jumpers before moving to the regionals. After a year he got on with Swa.
 
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