Seaport Airlines hiring 500hr mins

Sent in an application. Only sitting at about 400TT so figured it was worth a shot but building about 60-70 hours a month instructing. Will be sure to resubmit another application when I'm over 500TT. Might be a fun gig.
 
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OkStateBryan said:
Sent in an application. Only sitting at about 400TT so figured it was worth a shot but building about 60-70 hours a month instructing. Will be sure to resubmit another application when I'm over 500TT. Might be a fun gig.
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Hi have your heard anything yet? Did they acknowledge they received your application?
 
futurevagabondpilot said:
Stryker please elaborate?
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SeaPort is dangerous. Memphis is down to 3 or 4 captains for a reason. One reason is dispatch assigns you airplanes with MELs that forbid the kind of flying you need to do. I lost count of how many times I refused airplanes because of it. Keep VERY close eye on the paperwork because if theres a problem, management will come after you. And when I say come after you, I mean it. They'll write you up and put remarks in your PRIA saying your negligent, unprofessional, and of poor moral character. Theyll also attempt to blackmail you into staying longer saying if you stay with SeaPort another yeat theyll remove it from your record. Trust me, SeaPort is not at all worth the risk to your career.
 
One trip I had I was waiting for an airplane to get back. It was 4 30 in the afternoon and we were already late. Dispatch calls and tells me the nav lights are MELd so I tell him Im not taking the airplane cause itll be dark long before I reach my destination and no way Id legally get back.

So they gave me another airplane, we load up and Im about to start up when a CSA comes running out to tell me the flight was cancelled. Dispatch never bothered to call me to tell me about it apparently. So the pax get off, pissed. They send us to a different location. We get in about quarter to 11 and immediately go to reduced rest. About 1 am I get a TEXT message from dispatch telling me to duty on at 5 45 for a 6 am departure... Yeah. 6 am rolls around and dispatch blows up my phone. I call them back of my own free will since we were still legally on rest and wasnt leaving one minute before I was legal. If you dont know your 135 regs backwards and forwards, theyll hang you out to dry.
 
Pay, watch it like a hawk. They dont give you a stub so make sure you log into ADP every pay period because they have a habit of underpaying you. Weve all been shorted so often management sent an email threatening us not to talk to payroll anymore. Serious. Also per diem checks typically take 3 to 4 months to arrive so I hope youre patient.
 
Stryker172 said:
SeaPort is dangerous. Memphis is down to 3 or 4 captains for a reason. One reason is dispatch assigns you airplanes with MELs that forbid the kind of flying you need to do. I lost count of how many times I refused airplanes because of it. Keep VERY close eye on the paperwork because if theres a problem, management will come after you. And when I say come after you, I mean it. They'll write you up and put remarks in your PRIA saying your negligent, unprofessional, and of poor moral character. Theyll also attempt to blackmail you into staying longer saying if you stay with SeaPort another yeat theyll remove it from your record. Trust me, SeaPort is not at all worth the risk to your career.
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W H O A
 
Stryker172 said:
One trip I had I was waiting for an airplane to get back. It was 4 30 in the afternoon and we were already late. Dispatch calls and tells me the nav lights are MELd so I tell him Im not taking the airplane cause itll be dark long before I reach my destination and no way Id legally get back.

So they gave me another airplane, we load up and Im about to start up when a CSA comes running out to tell me the flight was cancelled. Dispatch never bothered to call me to tell me about it apparently. So the pax get off, pissed. They send us to a different location. We get in about quarter to 11 and immediately go to reduced rest. About 1 am I get a TEXT message from dispatch telling me to duty on at 5 45 for a 6 am departure... Yeah. 6 am rolls around and dispatch blows up my phone. I call them back of my own free will since we were still legally on rest and wasnt leaving one minute before I was legal. If you dont know your 135 regs backwards and forwards, theyll hang you out to dry.
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Dude what is up with this? Don't operators care about their certificates?... or the safety of their flights? Or does the FAA just not have enough resources to care about policing lowly single-engine turboprop operators?
 
One of those Captains in MEM is the chief pilot. He flies so much he probably doesn't have time to get anything else done. Feel for the guy.
 
GreenWater said:
One of those Captains in MEM is the chief pilot. He flies so much he probably doesn't have time to get anything else done. Feel for the guy.
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Yeah hes a great guy. Hes the ONLY one pushing back. I dont know how he does it but if it werent for him, SeaPort would be in even worse shape.
 
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