Pinnacle Air Services

[johnsonrod]

Do you guys have a LAS base with Lear 31s? I think I saw one of your brownish Lears there awhile back.

 

[AirplanesSuck]

Yep. Got a Lear 31 there.

 

[johnsonrod]

Yep. Got a Lear 31 there.

Do you guys tend to have people rated in multiple aircraft or just one type? Would the Lear 31 pilots at LAS also fly the 60, etc.? Do you start in the 31 and then progress to the 60? Also, is there a set schedule per month (I may have missed it earlier in the thread)?

 

[JJET44]

D-pends
We have guys duel qualified but they're floaters. They aren't assigned to a tail number like most of us. They fill in empty spots in the schedule.
You can live were you want (with in reason) but the floater positions are now going senior.

 

[On Your Six]

What's the schedule there again? Is it two weeks on, one week off?

 

[AirplanesSuck]

If you're flying a Global right now, just stay there! (unless they're paying you really really low) Aren't you about to be recalled?

But our schedule is as follows:

Based Aircraft (assigned to one tail number, plane returns to base): 14 days on call, 7 hard days off

Roaming Aircraft (assigned to one tail, plane does not return to base, airline to and from work): 8 days on the road, 6 hard days off

Reserve Pilots (not assigned to any tail, airline to and from work): 8 days on the road, 6 hard days off

Some of the Pinnacle certificate pilots are still on a 15 on/15 off schedule I think. And some of the "heavy" (gulfstreams, falcons) guys are on a week on/week off, and others are on a two on/two off rotation.

Also, there are "based" pilots on the Pinnacle cert., but I'm not sure what their schedule is like. Any PCL guys wanna chime in?

Regardless, I think they plan to keep working toward a more standard schedule. Either way, I'm pretty happy with it... we get a good deal of time off... not common for 135. And based pilots on the 14/7 schedule are home and don't fly some of the 14 on (unless dispatch is screwin' them and keepin' them on the road... this is happening to some folks).

 

[On Your Six]

If you're flying a Global right now, just stay there! (unless they're paying you really really low) Aren't you about to be recalled?

But our schedule is as follows:

Based Aircraft (assigned to one tail number, plane returns to base): 14 days on call, 7 hard days off

Roaming Aircraft (assigned to one tail, plane does not return to base, airline to and from work): 8 days on the road, 6 hard days off

Reserve Pilots (not assigned to any tail, airline to and from work): 8 days on the road, 6 hard days off

Some of the Pinnacle certificate pilots are still on a 15 on/15 off schedule I think. And some of the "heavy" (gulfstreams, falcons) guys are on a week on/week off, and others are on a two on/two off rotation.

Also, there are "based" pilots on the Pinnacle cert., but I'm not sure what their schedule is like. Any PCL guys wanna chime in?

Regardless, I think they plan to keep working toward a more standard schedule. Either way, I'm pretty happy with it... we get a good deal of time off... not common for 135. And based pilots on the 14/7 schedule are home and don't fly some of the 14 on (unless dispatch is screwin' them and keepin' them on the road... this is happening to some folks).

I have a good Global job and I am not returning to United - I did my time in 121 and I don't want to return (especially because UAL has no real plan). I was interested because I have a friend who has Lear time and he might be interested. He is a family man and I am trying to determine whether the schedule would be appealing.

Speaking of Lears, which Lears are newhires going to at the moment - Lear 60, 45, 35 or 31? Are the 31s pretty well equipped?

 

[AirplanesSuck]

Jetride is getting rid of the 45's and 55's. We will maintain three lear types: the 31, 35, and 60. Newhires are going to the right seat of all three... they hire for specific spots depending on what's open after internal bidding.

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Sounds like it might turn into a sinking ship. You are only as good as the people you have around you and this kind of stuff is going to lead to high turnover, low moral, and a lack of quality candidates.

Dude it's anything but a sinking ship.

I was just reading some old threads and it is kind of funny some of the stuff you find. I guess that hole in the bottom of the boat was just kind of hard for some to notice.

 

[AirplanesSuck]

Is this place hiring?