Eagle Air Med

[Nolife]

Looking for info on Eagle Air Med... that's Eagle Air Med in the New Mexico, Arizona area.

 

[414Flyer]

If they tell you the pay is 63K, ask how they arrive at that.

They have good planes, but I was not that impressed how they advertised schedule was 10 days off a month, and then said pay was around 63k. 63K is only if you give up 5 of your off days, and if you just have 5 other days possibly scatterred in the month, not much time to get off the rez.

I would have a hard time living in Chinle or Kayenta, without chances to get out of there monthly. I hear they have a Alamosa base, which would be a lot better. Except for the thirty below in winter, but at least you have some college chicks to keep you warm that will be impressed by a C90

 

[flatspin7]

Kayenta is a hole... avoid like the plague!!!
There is literally nothing around for miles. I used to have a job where I had 5 hour sits up there and the only thing to do was to chill at the holiday inn.

 

[avbug]

If you're a city slicker kind of guy, then the reservation is not for you. Otherwise, it's not a bad place. Just remember you're not in kansas any more; you're in another nation; in that case the Navajo Nation.

Eagle Air Med used to be Blanding Air Ambulance, a dba of Scenic Aviation. The owner crashed several airplanes, the former Chief Pilot liked to brag about running airplanes out of fuel with passengers aboard. They wrecked a number of airplanes at Chinle. Flew an airplane for six months with a spar cracked in three places. Anther with the gear trunions so badly damaged that it wouldn't stay up. They were eventually forced to close, and came back with King Air's under a new name, and secured business with the BIA and the Navajo Nation due to "tribal connections."

The owner had to bow out, and his sons run it, sons who were responsible for pencil whipping annuals (they're not mechanics) for years...airplanes that came up on inspections, got pushed into the hangar, then pulled out by the sons an hour later with a promise that the inspections were complete...and so forth.

If you can envision life in which you begin to fantasize about taco bell on a regular basis, then you might do well with Eagle/Scenic.

 

[414Flyer]

If you can envision life in which you begin to fantasize about taco bell on a regular basis, then you might do well with Eagle/Scenic.

There is actually a taco bell in Kayenta now. I dont know anything about the pre C421 days, but the they have been the current company at least with 421 then they got the king airs.

If someone is married and has a wife that is in the medical field, could be a good opportunity to go out there for a year, and both work and bank some good money then get the heck out.

As a single guy, it would not be an easy place to live, unless flying a king air on the rez is your dream and you dont care about boobies and beers anymore.

I think they are an improved company over what they were in the past, but I can think of better places to be

 

[avbug]

There is actually a taco bell in Kayenta now.

Then perfection is only a tick away.

Kayenta, just on the edge of monument valley by a little bit of a drive, is a scenic place.

Where else could one work and consider a trip to Flagstaff to be a vacation?

 

[EdAtTheAirport]

Yeah, and if you really want to live it up, you can drive to Gallup. (No offense to my good friends at Gallup Flying Service).

 

[captjim]

I hated that place, even Blanding was a living hell!

 

[CaravanMan]

Yeah, Blanding sucked! I was only there for a few minutes one day in one of our King Airs (diff company) and that place seemed like a hole.

 

[Nolife]

Thanks for the reponses. Talked to the lady the other day and it didn't sound too good. For the location and what I'd be giving up, nice house, city life, snake free home, etc. they don't pay enough.