Cherry Air

[RedGuy]

Yeah, that does sound pretty bad, sounds like the bad old days. I know they had to put down diamond plate on the Bandit floors because they where getting tore up real bad. As for the door thing, I've heard about them doing that in the past, but that wouldn't fly with me or any of our current captains. The only time an A/C flies broken is if the captain chooses to fly it broken, personally I choose not to and nobody's given me any grief about downing an A/C.

This job is as safe as you make it. If you choose to fly broken A/C that's your choice and your A$$ too. Don't worry about being fired for refusing to fly due to weather or Mx, because if that's the kind of company they are, then you don't want to work for them anyway. That's the way I look at it.

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Hey RG,

I here that 310KS was involved in some sort of incident the other day. What's the story? How bad is the damage?

 

[RedGuy]

I don't really think now is the time or place to discus it, but the pilots OK and only got a busted lip.

 

[VABB]

My two cents, if you want to go adhoc cargo, then Cherry or IFL are probably not a bad places to be. Other than getting stuck at FL280 with Cherry's non-RVSM birds they seem to be OK. The air condition units have been removed to save weight, so it gets hot in the summer. At least the Falcons have windows that open, but in the lear you suffer. Other things get removed to save weight as well. One I can think of is any kind of sound proofing that they can get a hold of. I didn't work there, but I have had dinner with more than one Cherry crew and these are the stories they tell.

Kalitta, USA Jet, Ameristar, and Grand Aire are probably best left alone.

Royal Air you will get a lot of flying and maybe make a few bucks, but there are always issues. The owner is not allowed on site as a term/penalty by the FAA and that has been going on for years. That should tell you enough.

Sounds like some sort of third-world pax start-up airline.

 

[Capt. JD]

Cherry

My two cents, if you want to go adhoc cargo, then Cherry or IFL are probably not a bad places to be. Other than getting stuck at FL280 with Cherry's non-RVSM birds they seem to be OK. The air condition units have been removed to save weight, so it gets hot in the summer. At least the Falcons have windows that open, but in the lear you suffer. Other things get removed to save weight as well. One I can think of is any kind of sound proofing that they can get a hold of. I didn't work there, but I have had dinner with more than one Cherry crew and these are the stories they tell.

Kalitta, USA Jet, Ameristar, and Grand Aire are probably best left alone.

Royal Air you will get a lot of flying and maybe make a few bucks, but there are always issues. The owner is not allowed on site as a term/penalty by the FAA and that has been going on for years. That should tell you enough.

Talked to the chief pilot @ Cherry Air, seems like a nice guy. Who is IFL? Do those 3 letters stand for something? Sooo Cherry Air pilots spend allot of time on the road? How much time does one fly in a year? Scheduled days on/off?

 

[RedGuy]

Those three letters can stand for ALOT of things!lol But as far as the company goes they don't stand for anything. So IFL is IFL basically, they fly Convairs, a couple 727's, and 2 or 3 Falcons. Pretty sure they're not hiring now, they just had a bunch of layoffs.

 

[pilotyip]

IFL = Int'l Flight Logistics

 

[RedGuy]

IFL= I'm ********************ing lost

IFL doesn't stand for International Flight Logistics. I worked there for a few years, it's a carry over from one of Allens previous companies. Nobody there know what it used to stand for, so basically it's just three letters.

 

[pilotyip]

Been there done that

Yea I heard that one when I worked there, but how about Inman, Frank and Larry?

 

[cherry20's]

Talked to the chief pilot @ Cherry Air, seems like a nice guy. Who is IFL? Do those 3 letters stand for something? Sooo Cherry Air pilots spend allot of time on the road? How much time does one fly in a year? Scheduled days on/off?

We spend a good deal of time on the road, but they do bring us home during the week alot too. I flew about 600 hours last year and 1000 the year before. It was slow last year so hopefully it will be better this year. Schedule is like Ameristar's, 5 on 2 off. Off every weekend except for a floating weekend on call. Usually works out to be about every 6th weekend or so.

 

[Capt. JD]

Training

We spend a good deal of time on the road, but they do bring us home during the week alot too. I flew about 600 hours last year and 1000 the year before. It was slow last year so hopefully it will be better this year. Schedule is like Ameristar's, 5 on 2 off. Off every weekend except for a floating weekend on call. Usually works out to be about every 6th weekend or so.

So the flying mostly happens Monday - Friday? I heard that ground school is like 5 weeks long then you go to Flight Safety. Do you get paid in training? Do you get a hotel room paid for?

 

[cherry20's]

Mostly Mon-Fri, ground school is very good and informative and is around 5 weeks. You get base pay while in training-$600 every two weeks. I think they pay for a hotel room for three weeks during training.

 

[kamikaize]

I heard you guys do alot of training at the outer marker on weekends thats why you have the 5/2 schedule and only work 1 weekend every 6 weeks. That picture shows what a hung start looks like.

 

[SheGaveMeClap]

Those three letters can stand for ALOT of things!lol But as far as the company goes they don't stand for anything. So IFL is IFL basically, they fly Convairs, a couple 727's, and 2 or 3 Falcons. Pretty sure they're not hiring now, they just had a bunch of layoffs.

Independent Flight Leasing.

 

[big pimpn']

Is Billy S. still the CP at cherry? good guy. Can't say the same for some other people on their management team.