airhermit
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- Feb 23, 2005
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Would anybody out there with substantial AMF time comment on the overall experience?
- QOL, including fatigue/rest, freezing/frying, schedules, family considerations?
- Enjoyment of the job/the flying?
- Layover apartments/hotels?
- Safety?
- Overall impression of the company/management (both in BUR and station Ops Managers)?
- Prospects for stability/growth in the future?
- Impressions of flying the BE99/Metro/1900?
- Impressions of the various bases/outstations at which you have experience?
- Do any/some/most pilots gross the base salary posted or better (not including 5% turbine retention bonus)?
- If money was not a consideration, would/could you do the AMF thing as a career?
My situation is that I was hired by AMF as a BE99 captain last April, successfully completed indoc and sim, but after two training flights in the aircraft I had to discontinue training (the "perfect storm" of multiple family crises making landfall within days of one another) and resign. I felt terrible about leaving the company on such short notice, but those with whom I dealt were extremely understanding, and were a great blessing by not making me feel even worse than I already did.
Long story short: I am considering begging for another chance in the coming weeks or months. The family situation has stabilized, and we are hoping for another chance to move back west, where we feel most at home.
I already spent four years driving CRJs in the East, so I know what I'm not missing there. My family and I are quite simple, and can live comfortably enough on AMF wages. This is really a Big Picture, QOL issue; about where and how we want to live/raise our kids, about a Dad who is home most days or nights.
As pilots we all deal with similiar issues at various times along the "career path", and I truly appreciate any and all inputs or impressions with which you, my peers, might provide me.
Sincere Thanks.
- QOL, including fatigue/rest, freezing/frying, schedules, family considerations?
- Enjoyment of the job/the flying?
- Layover apartments/hotels?
- Safety?
- Overall impression of the company/management (both in BUR and station Ops Managers)?
- Prospects for stability/growth in the future?
- Impressions of flying the BE99/Metro/1900?
- Impressions of the various bases/outstations at which you have experience?
- Do any/some/most pilots gross the base salary posted or better (not including 5% turbine retention bonus)?
- If money was not a consideration, would/could you do the AMF thing as a career?
My situation is that I was hired by AMF as a BE99 captain last April, successfully completed indoc and sim, but after two training flights in the aircraft I had to discontinue training (the "perfect storm" of multiple family crises making landfall within days of one another) and resign. I felt terrible about leaving the company on such short notice, but those with whom I dealt were extremely understanding, and were a great blessing by not making me feel even worse than I already did.
Long story short: I am considering begging for another chance in the coming weeks or months. The family situation has stabilized, and we are hoping for another chance to move back west, where we feel most at home.
I already spent four years driving CRJs in the East, so I know what I'm not missing there. My family and I are quite simple, and can live comfortably enough on AMF wages. This is really a Big Picture, QOL issue; about where and how we want to live/raise our kids, about a Dad who is home most days or nights.
As pilots we all deal with similiar issues at various times along the "career path", and I truly appreciate any and all inputs or impressions with which you, my peers, might provide me.
Sincere Thanks.
