Anchorage Alaska

[h25b]

Anyone familiar with corporate activity in Anchorage ? Have family up there that is looking around for gigs. Running quick searches through the FAA site for him sure hasn't produced much.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

saw something on avcrew.com last month about a Westwind job in PANC. Sometimes see a westwind or two sitting at ERA there. ERA also runs charters in twin otters and Dash 8s I think....

my guess is its rather slim corp pickings up that way...plus winter just plain sucks.

actually -- here is the ad:

Westwind Pilot (AK) 11/11 (Job description & requirements updated)

Private company is seeking a Westwind pilot willing to move to Anchorage, Alaska. This is a Co-Captain or Co-Pilot position and will be working with an experienced Captain. Prior training or experience in the Westwind is preferred. We are seeking someone with an A&P. The average hours flown are approximately 300 per year and would require some holiday travel. Additional responsibilities would include daily help with minor hangar upkeep. Pay starts at around 50k. If interested, please email resume to employer. Be sure to mention that you saw the ad on AvCrew.com.

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[TransMach]

Panc

Evergreen Helicopters is looking for a PANC Base Fixed Wing chief pilot. Requirements are BE-200, LR-35 and/or B747 experience (I know it should odd, but Evergreen is odd). You've got 2 out of 3 ... give it a go. Heck, you might get a B747 check out !!

TransMach

 

[Gumby]

:smash:

saw something on avcrew.com last month about a Westwind job in PANC. Sometimes see a westwind or two sitting at ERA there. ERA also runs charters in twin otters and Dash 8s I think....

my guess is its rather slim corp pickings up that way...plus winter just plain sucks.

actually -- here is the ad:

Westwind Pilot (AK) 11/11 (Job description & requirements updated)

Private company is seeking a Westwind pilot willing to move to Anchorage, Alaska. This is a Co-Captain or Co-Pilot position and will be working with an experienced Captain. Prior training or experience in the Westwind is preferred. We are seeking someone with an A&P. The average hours flown are approximately 300 per year and would require some holiday travel. Additional responsibilities would include daily help with minor hangar upkeep. Pay starts at around 50k. If interested, please email resume to employer. Be sure to mention that you saw the ad on AvCrew.com.

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Yea, that WW gig in AK, was actually the Governor of AK! Here is the skinny!

State's new jet could touch down today

TURBULENCE: Critics have contended the $2.7 million plane isn't needed.
By SEAN COCKERHAM
Anchorage Daily News
Published: November 8, 2005
Last Modified: November 8, 2005 at 03:14 PM


JUNEAU -- Alaskans might want to look up if they hear the sound of a jet airplane in the next few days: It could be the governor traveling in the state's new executive ride.

The state on Monday took possession of the $2.7 million Westwind II in Lincoln, Neb. The jet could arrive in Alaska as soon as today, state officials said.
The acquisition caps more than a year of political controversy, with Gov. Frank Murkowski insisting on the jet despite widespread opposition from other politicians and the public.
Murkowski and the Alaska Department of Public Safety will both use the nine-passenger aircraft.
Murkowski spokeswoman Becky Hultberg said she could not say when the governor will start flying on the Westwind. She referred such questions to Public Safety Commissioner Bill Tandeske.
"The governor could make use of the aircraft immediately if there is a need. ... It would not be unreasonable to assume he may be on the jet within the next couple weeks," Tandeske said in an e-mail.
Tandeske has said his department can use the jet to hightail it to emergencies or, more routinely, to transport prisoners to a private prison in Arizona that houses Alaska's excess inmates.
Tandeske said in an interview Monday that the jet will make its first prison run to Arizona soon. But he said that for security reasons he couldn't give specifics on that.
Critics have argued loud and often that a corporate jet is too luxurious for convicts or the governor. The 1984 Israeli-made Westwind II has a cream leather divan, burgundy carpeting, a cabin stereo system and a flush toilet -- unlike the state-owned turboprops the governor currently uses.
Murkowski has argued it makes sense for a state as big as Alaska to have a jet for public safety as well as to save time as he frequently travels on state business. The maximum speed of a Westwind II is listed at more than 500 mph.
Jet opponents, questioning the jet's utility, say it couldn't handle short gravel runways in the Bush. The Public Safety Department said it would fly people to regional hubs where they could get other transportation to smaller locales, just as troopers do now with the turboprops.
Murkowski first tried to get the jet last year with $2 million in federal Homeland Security funds. The federal government said no.
The Republican governor then included state money to lease a jet in his budget proposal to the Legislature. Republican-controlled subcommittees in the state House and Senate took the money out of the budget, saying their constituents opposed the jet.
Murkowski said he would get the jet anyway using his powers to move around state funds. Legislative Democrats tried to get no-jet language into the budget in a final attempt to stop him. But the majority Republicans refused to go that far.
The state signed a contract this summer to buy the jet from O. Bruton Smith, a North Carolina auto-racing tycoon. It has been owned by the Land's End catalogue company, among others. The jet has been in Nebraska for renovations and inspections over the past few weeks.
The state added police/emergency radio capability and a cold-weather package for the Alaska climate that includes an engine heater, said Dan Spencer, administrative services director for the Public Safety Department. It also added a seat belt for the toilet seat, as required by law for takeoffs, Spencer said.
Spencer said the state also made some minor repairs, like replacing rivets.
"Rivets are $800 a pop. ... Nothing on a jet is less than $800, as far as I can tell," said Spencer, who is in charge of paying the bills.
Spencer said the state has put about $95,000 into the repairs and upgrades.
That's on top of the $2.6 million purchase cost and the $97,600 for training four Alaska State Troopers pilots to fly it. The state is paying the jet bills using a line of credit with Key Bank. The state plans to sell one of its King Air turboprops to raise a half-million dollars or so to put toward the cost.

Daily News reporter Sean Cockerham can

 

[Steve]

" It also added a seat belt for the toilet seat, as required by law for takeoffs, Spencer said."

then shouldn't it have one already, or is that a Alaska rule?

 

[h25b]

O.K. guys, let's stay on point here. I don't think the avcrew ad was for the state aircraft as the ad stated "private company" and the article said they were training state police troopers to fly it.

Anyone have any input on any actual corporate aircraft based there ???

 

[ultrarunner]

" It also added a seat belt for the toilet seat, as required by law for takeoffs, Spencer said."

then shouldn't it have one already, or is that a Alaska rule?

It wasn't likely certified as a pax seat in it's previous config. By adding the belt, you get an additional certified passenger seat.

 

[semperfido]

you must be joking...anchorage, ak?? :crying:

 

[h25b]

you must be joking...anchorage, ak?? :crying:

I'm inquiring to help my brother-in-law who lives up there already. Been up there a couple times myself (in the summer) and it's absolutely the most beautiful places I've been. And I'm not even an outdoor kind of guy. It's the long days of darkness in the winter I couldn't handle...

 

[2000flyer]

The Westwind job WASN'T the governor's plane. For that you need to apply to the State of Alaska. Though they act like it sometimes, I highly doubt they'd advertise the job as a "Private Company."

2000Flyer

 

[psysicx]

Is winter that bad in ANC?

 

[justthewife]

Is winter that bad in Anchorage?

Obviously you've never been there, or you wouldn't even ask....

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Is winter that bad in ANC?

May-Sept is beautiful. dry,warm, long days to do tons of outdoor stuff..cant beat it.

after that its pure hell if you ask me. You have to have serious issues to live there year round. Mid 20's cold wet rain/snow windy and dark. sweeet.

and no, aside from a few lears to pick up drunken and injured eskimoes there is virtually NO corp activity there.

PANC is a fuel stop on the way to Asia...not a good place to look for corp work IMHO

 

[Gumby]

Is winter that bad in ANC?

AND, the QOL is horrible!

 

[Gulfstream 200]

AND, the QOL is horrible!

whats the pay like?

 

[2000flyer]

I've got a friend who lives there and loves it. Flies floats to Gulfstreams.

As for the winter, Anchorage isn't that bad. In fact, I'd call it mild compared to a typical midwest (MN,WI) winter. To me the killer is darkness. That is what makes winter so tough in ANC, IMHO.

2000Flyer

 

[Falconer]

I don't know the current status, but there was an Astra based at Signature. The pilots flew both the Astra and a Cessna Caravan on floats. Summers in Alaska and I believe the worst winter months in California. Old data, I could be wrong. Call Signature...

 

[Gumby]

whats the pay like?

Fity....With all the time you spend in PANC, you could get that WW gig p/t!!:beer:

 

[some_dude]

Did the state of Alaska find the most expensive Westwind around, or what? $2.6 million for a Westwind II? Some salesman did very well on that one!

 

[peter185]

There was a Doctor that owned a WW2 based in Anchorage as of about 2 years ago. Friend worked there and it sounded like a nice job to me. Checking the FAA database the registration hasn't changed either. I would bet it is the same operation.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Fity....With all the time you spend in PANC, you could get that WW gig p/t!!:beer:

Dweller,

problem is....not much time in PANC is spent sober!!!....

and I swore off Westwinds for life a while back.

fiddy.


:nuts:

 

[psysicx]

How dark is it in the winter? Is it just dusk or is it pitch black?

 

[LAZYB]

Uh, OK...

How dark is it in the winter? Is it just dusk or is it pitch black?

what is the QOD (quality of dark)

 

[2000flyer]

How dark is it in the winter? Is it just dusk or is it pitch black?

DARK BABY! Actually, when I was there last December you were getting about 4 hours of twilight each day, otherwise it's night time.

 

[2000flyer]

I don't know the current status, but there was an Astra based at Signature. The pilots flew both the Astra and a Cessna Caravan on floats. Summers in Alaska and I believe the worst winter months in California. Old data, I could be wrong. Call Signature...

If we're talking about the same Astra, it's long gone. They're now flying a Westwind and had a couple of G3's. I believe they have just gotten a GIV plus several bush/float/amphib aircraft.

 

[flx757]

On the shortest day of the year, the sun rises (though it does stay low on the horizon) at about 10:30 am and sets about 3:15 pm. Not what I would exactly call "twilight". "Twilight" implies that the sun has set below the horizon and visible light remains. There is still around 5 hours of "daylight"...between sunrise and sunset...on the shortest day of the year in Anchorage.

Today, for example...15 days before the solstice...sunrise is at 0956 and sunset is at 1545 for 5 hrs 49 mins of "day" and 7 hrs 48 mins of "visible light".

So it it hardly "dark", even on the shortest day of the year. You have to get several hundred miles further north to experience that.

 

[h25b]

If we're talking about the same Astra, it's long gone. They're now flying a Westwind and had a couple of G3's. I believe they have just gotten a GIV plus several bush/float/amphib aircraft.

This is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. Do you have any specifics you can share ???

 

[Gumby]

Dweller,

problem is....not much time in PANC is spent sober!!!....

and I swore off Westwinds for life a while back.

fiddy.


:nuts:

Hmmm..GOOD POINT! The question is though, can you punch a clown while drunk?imp:

 

[2000flyer]

On the shortest day of the year, the sun rises (though it does stay low on the horizon) at about 10:30 am and sets about 3:15 pm. Not what I would exactly call "twilight". "Twilight" implies that the sun has set below the horizon and visible light remains. There is still around 5 hours of "daylight"...between sunrise and sunset...on the shortest day of the year in Anchorage.

Today, for example...15 days before the solstice...sunrise is at 0956 and sunset is at 1545 for 5 hrs 49 mins of "day" and 7 hrs 48 mins of "visible light".

So it it hardly "dark", even on the shortest day of the year. You have to get several hundred miles further north to experience that.

Well, technically speaking, you are correct. However, the sun is barely above the horizon for those 5 hours, and I DO mean barely. Some days it is not directly visible due to the mountains south of Anchorage. But, technically speaking, you are correct, the sun IS above the HORIZON, just like "it's five o'clock somewhere." Now, add to the low azmuth of the sun on the horizon, the mountains, toss is clouds and I can personally confirm the light is the SAME as twilight. In the middle of winter, even in Anchorage, DAYLIGHT is much shorter than five hours. Just to be clear though, technically your definition is correct.

 

[flx757]

I lived there for many years. I'm very familiar. But, I will also say it is one of the 3 favorite places I have ever lived.