Airnet challengers

[$$$4nothin]

Just to let everybody know the Jet Ride part of airnet is getting 2 Challenger 601's. Just thought someone might want to know.

 

[HAZ-MAT]

Putting one in Kansas City (MKC)

 

[wings421]

I've heard that it is one 601 and one 604.

 

[payton]

last i heard the 601 in kc fell apart, the 604 should be on line in columbus any day

 

[starchkr]

Why CMH?!?!?!?!? I would think about going over if it were anywhere but CMH. MAybe APA or Somewhere out west...but who knows.

 

[wings421]

Why CMH?!?!?!?!? I would think about going over if it were anywhere but CMH. MAybe APA or Somewhere out west...but who knows.

I see in my crystal ball - none of our current pilots getting to fly the thing. Hiring off the street to begin. Hopefully in the future we'll get to fly em.

 

[starchkr]

we should be able to slip into the SIC spot. Same way prop guys get to do the SIC in the Lear. We just cannot go directly to the PIC position. There are no restrictions on that, we will just need to go through Simuflite/ Flightsafety for it.

 

[wings421]

From what I've heard (from reliable sources), I'd be suprised to see us in the right seat, in the begining at least.

 

[DirkkDiggler]

When Airnet got the Lear 60's and I worked there as a prop PIC, I called Craig Washka and asked him what I needed to do to get one of the Lear 60 slots that they were hiring for at the time. He told me that they were only hiring outside the company or from the right seat of the lear 35 because it was too big of a jump to change from a Baron to a Lear 60. This was after I had worked for the company in the freight side of things for over a year and a half. This seemed really strange to me for a couple reasons: 1. Regional airlines consistently hire flight instructors and place them directly into Regional Jets after only flying 172's and Seminoles. If the regionals can do it then Airnet should be able to take a company pilot with a hell of a lot more experience in weather and much higher performance pistons and place him or her in the right seat of a Lear 60. 2. Airnet would hire a guy off the street who they know nothing about rather than take someone who has a proven track record with the company for the past year and a half. How does that make any sense? It seemed to me that Craig (or the company) just wanted to hire from outside instead of honoring the seniority list that was in place. Oh well, that's why I don't work there any more.

 

[starchkr]

Got some more info on the Challengers...

They are not taking people from our list yet because none of us have the higher insurance mins to do it. Something like a few hundred hours in type with lots of time in jets or something like that. Eventually they will hire from our list to the right seat as a few of our guys build time and are able to upgrade into the 601/4. The CMH jet is in place, with one of our guys flying it and we are hiring 2 off the street is what i heard. The owner of the jet requested that the current airnet capt that flew his lear 60 come over and fly his new jet. None of this has to do with wanting to hire off the street and ignore our seniority list or anything, it has to do with the program we are part of for our charters and the insurance req's that go along with it. We will be able to get a shot though, just give it some time...just like the 60, which started out just the same.