Ameriflight

[El Guapo]

Did anyone here get invited to the October 11th class? I interviewed a couple of weeks ago and have yet to hear anything back from them. I called Jerry and he beat around the bush when I asked him if I was in the class. Sure would be nice to give my current employer a two week notice.

Thanks in advance!

El Guapo

 

[TheDogsBollocks]

If you get the call for the Oct 11th class you can just tell them you will have to make a later class, because you desire to do the honorable thing and give your current employer two weeks notice.

When it comes to moving on Ameriflight knows it is a "stepping stone" up the aviaton career ladder, as such AMF requires two weeks notice when you desire to leave-not doing so makes you ineligible for rehire.

AMF is in need for pilots now, so unless you goofed the interview your chances of acceptance should be good-best of luck.

 

[DX Rick]

They still having furloughed airline pilots flying the Lance? I talked to a few of the pilots there. From what they said, is that they used to hire guys with 500TT but ran them only during day vfr. Since all the furloughs, they said they had airline guys flying the Lance...any change?

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[TheDogsBollocks]

The Lance vfr pic used to be done out of the PHX base but I don't know if this is still the case, however I do know that they need pilots - so if anybody wants to scare themselves silly in the Lance, go ahead and apply

 

[House_X]

The Lance vfr pic used to be done out of the PHX base but I don't know if this is still the case, however I do know that they need pilots - so if anybody wants to scare themselves silly in the Lance, go ahead and apply

Some years back, FLYING magazine did an article on the highest time Lance in the world....and guess who flew it? Yep...you guessed it. I think it had 14000 hours...yiiiiiiikes. When I learned that, my flight instructing job all of the sudden looked pretty darn good...

 

[AZaviator]

Some years back, FLYING magazine did an article on the highest time Lance in the world....and guess who flew it? Yep...you guessed it. I think it had 14000 hours...yiiiiiiikes. When I learned that, my flight instructing job all of the sudden looked pretty darn good...

I've flown that airplane quite a few times, but its nothing to be proud of.
It actually flies just fine since MX keeps it in decent shape. Some of the Lances that aren't quite as old give MX a lot more problems.

Does anyone remember which Flying magazine issue had the highest time Lance article in it?

By the way, I think that Lance now has over 15,000hrs on it now....and still counting.

 

[fr8guy]

So, I have a copy of the article. I thought it was interesting and put it with my AMF stuff.

July 1997 issue, is actually the 2nd write up of the particular airplane. At that time, the article says "more than 12,000 hours". The same plane apparently was the cover plane for the November 1975 issue. The airplane is serial number 002.
The article states that (again in 1997) "two of the AMF lances have more than 15,000 hours, and 14 more have in excess of 10,000". Put 7 more years of use on those numbers!!!!!

 

[DX Rick]

But...

I have heard that AMF has a pretty good mx department.

 

[English]

You'd better hope so!

 

[DX Rick]

Sorry...

You'd better hope so!

I should have asked "do they have a better mx department than other 135 cargo companies?"