Amflight pilots

[Hootie9750]

Ameriflight is a great place to get some real PIC. I havent even hit the one year mark and Ive said no with no worries about being canned. Ive also made a booboo and didnt get canned. They fire people if your dishonest or making sh*t up. Ive seen two people canned since Ive been at AMF. First guy was an idiot and would fly around without required equipment or with broken equipment and he didnt even know what was illegal or not. And they still gave him 4 or 5 strikes before he was out. The other dude wouldnt submit to a piss test....Nuff said.

 

[fatdumbandhappy]

I'm new to AMF and the environment here is NOT "fly or your fired", the flight department is very supportive and they will back you up as long as your honest with them and you keep them informed.

Happy Flying

 

[Cpt Kangaroo]

You folks are right...

by saying how great AMF is letting you to truly become a PIC. I wouldn't trade my experience there for nothing. Made some great lifelong friends at AMF. I should have mentioned that I specifically was talking about BIL and not AMF as a whole. I've been around the system, everything worked out great, BIL is the step child. If we ever completely followed the rules 60 percent of our flying would be cancelled yearly for weather and other related issues. The ops manager up there is truly out for the cash and nothing else. The "new" acp is completely useless. The base has gone down fast since last OCT and we all knew something like what happened to Carl was going to happen, unfortunately it did quicker than every one of us up there thought. This is my personal experience and by no means do I mean it to reflect upon the whole of AMF's daily practices. Newbies avoid BIL.

 

[tinman]

Cpt.,
Agreed about the ops manager.

 

[DeathPencil]

I am curious how it can be said that 60% of the flying at a particular base is illegal. Did you not fly more than half the time, or did you knowingly make illegal flights?
If this is really going on, do the right thing and go up the chain of command. Talk to the CP in BUR if you can't get anywhere locally instead of making allegations on an internet message board.

 

[Cpt Kangaroo]

No allegations, just the truth. Someone asked on this internet message board and I'm telling you what's really going on. Why would I make stuff up like this?? Why do you think I left??? How AMF handled the whole situation with that memo was pathetic. They mention Carl for one stinky paragraph and the rest glorifying someone who wasn't even an emplpoyee yet of the company. Come on. Chain of command huh??? The current CP is a pawn too. Nathan was the best, and he too knew what was going on a went on to greener pastures flying G jets. Just because an AMF pilots run that he's been doing at that particular base has been running smoothly doesn't mean the whole company is. Look at San Juan????
Call any pilot in BIL and they'll tell you the real deal up there.

 

[Whistlin' Dan]

It's a little late now, but if you had specific names, dates, etc., you should have brought your allegations, in writing, to your POI. (or whatever the Pt.135 equivalent might be) It would have been a good idea to have a sit-down with a lawyer who specializes in "whistle-blower" law before you did it, if for no other reason that to ease your exit from the company, and give you a little spending money with which to find another job.

In a situation like that, CC'ing whoever Chairs the Aviation Subcommittee in your state isn't a bad idea either. Make sure they know they're not the only ones who are being appraised of the problem.

I never meant to leave the impression that AMF wasn't "appreciative" of pilots who sometimes "stretched" the rules in their favor. ALL companies do that. I was just saying that it was never a requirement of the job, at least while I was there.

 

[time builder]

Here's my .02. AMF captains are among the most qualified pilots around, you have to be to fly single pilot IFR. If you can't make a go/no go decision on your own, you're not fit for the job.
I do remember a clash between an AMF capt. and a manager. The weather was below mins at the destination, the manager told him "get there or its your badge." The captain made it as far as he could and diverted 30 miles down the road (just barely made it in there). Who do you think lost their job? We had a new manager within a month.

 

[DirtyBeech]

I'm pretty sure any Amflighter leaves the company for greener pastures if a G is involved. Nathan was the second guy to do that, and if you are trying to correlate his departure with your problems in BIL, the provide some proof or don't throw that in their alltogether. Sheesh, it's like saying Dirty saw the crap going on at AMF and decided to move on to Southwest.

Btw, the best thing to have done would be to go up the chain of command and over it if need be, and not quit and start something on an internet message board.

 

[Linetech]

Ill give you that Nate dog was good. All the BIL guys are always in a good mood or so they make it seem when they check in & out.