Need a couple of Freight Dawgs

Hernandezcfi

Hernandezcfi

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Based @ KFXE flying BN2A's (Twin Islanders) to the Bahamas. Part 135 Cargo & sometimes passengers and we only fly in the daytime. ...as far as the pay...you will not be ashamed to hand your paycheck over to the bank teller! Qualified applicants will need around 900/200.
 
Hernandezcfi said:
Based @ KFXE flying BN2A's (Twin Islanders) to the Bahamas. Part 135 Cargo & sometimes passengers and we only fly in the daytime. ...as far as the pay...you will not be ashamed to hand your paycheck over to the bank teller! Qualified applicants will need around 900/200.
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Ya'll have any part time work dow there??? And how not ashamed will we be? What company? Schedules?
 
I don't know about part time. Schedule is Monday - Friday and sometimes Saturday. Pay is around $32 to $52k per year.
 
It works like this...everyone gets paid $100 per flight. Seniority gets the first flights. Most days senior pilots fly twice while the newest pilot gets one flight. Each flight is an average of 3 hours out and back with very little wait time. We fly around 80 hours a month. They don't pay us as employees either. They pay us as sub-contractors.
 
Hernandezcfi said:
It works like this...everyone gets paid $100 per flight. Seniority gets the first flights. Most days senior pilots fly twice while the newest pilot gets one flight. Each flight is an average of 3 hours out and back with very little wait time. We fly around 80 hours a month. They don't pay us as employees either. They pay us as sub-contractors.
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Does that mean no bennies?
 
That's right, no bennies just Benjamins. The only benefit in my view is lots of multi in my book and home in time for dinner.
 
It can work to your advantage if you Incororate as an "S" Corp. That's what I do. I pay things like auto, fuel, percentage of my rent for home office, etc. thru the corporation and pay my own payroll taxes on my salary.
 
Wow, I'm sure it works pretty well until it's crappy wx for a while or god forbid you get sick. Not only do you not have benefits, but your not flying so you don't make money. Bankruptcy here we come baby!
 
Well it's Florida so crappy weather does not stick around long and while the company does not encourage us to fly in bad weather, the only weather that keeps us from launching is the same weather that has everyone else (IFR) thinking twice.

Since I don't live paycheck to paycheck as I might if I were working for a Regional Airline, I can afford to be sick once in a while. I also have an individual Health Care plan which is very reasonable. I pay about the same as my wife and her company pays half of hers. Maybe being a non-smoking male has something to do with that.
 
wow that sounds like my dream job. Now if only you guys fly down to South America too I'm sold. But then agian, I'm still a student pilot. Hopefully this job will be around when I have the time. :yup:
 
They are all dream jobs until you get it then get a different dream job. You will find that you will never be satisfied until you are flying the space shuttle!
 
just a question...

If you DID have the 135 IFR minimums, could you file and fly it IFR on a day when a VFR pilot couldn't? Or would the company's spec not permit that or what?
 
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