What airplane did you earn your first dollar in?

[skypilot6]

New owners...right before I left they said they thought the name had a bad wrap nationwide and online. They asked employees for name suggestions and I guess that was the announced winner.

If you want my real opinion, they won't spend the money to change it. The new owners are really stingy with money. They came in fired like 20 people (including the new CEO lol), said they'd increase CFI wages for almost 7 months and nothing happened. Same thing with new interiors and paint jobs. They did it to one airplane and said it's too expensive.

Same old story, I was there for the PanAm to TP transition, lots of promises and very little delivered. It was fun while I was there, I learned a lot, but very happy to be done with that place.

 

[tcco94]

Same old story, I was there for the PanAm to TP transition, lots of promises and very little delivered. It was fun while I was there, I learned a lot, but very happy to be done with that place.

Yup about the only good thing I can credit them with is getting my hours very fast. If that's your goal then it's a good place.

 

[NCaviator]

Always liked those, how were they to fly ?

It was a great, fun, stable airplane and perfect for what we were doing since we were searching for whales and the wing and engines were out of the way. I can see why it didn't last thought since it burned twice as much fuel as a 182 and only had a few knots on it.

 

[Tommay85]

If you don't count the time I spent upside down under panels or elbows deep in structure....

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Whoa, DUAL exhaust!! I've never seen two pipes on a survey rig before! I like it! In a "hill-billy dual exhaust on ma truck" kind of way. haha