ARG Matey!

[2000flyer]

Sorry folks, but this just caught me (maybe the wrong way) but really now...

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Title:_ Co-pilot & First Mate ARGH!!!
Company:_ Confidential Product/Service:_ Affraid to make public
Location:_ SO FL Required Travel:_ None Travel...NONE??? You're a freakin pilot flying 400-600 hours a year for heavens sake!
Job Type:_ Full-time Employment Type:_ Permanent
Description:_
Looking for a co-pilot to fly with owner on a King Air 90 is South Florida. Responsibility will include Co-pilot duties, flight planning, care and cleaning of the aircraft. In addition you will also be the first mate on the owners sports fishing yacht, to include care and cleaning of the yacht under the direction of the boat captain. Must be flexible and be able to be out of town for extended periodsTravel Required_None?????. We fly the company aircraft 400-600 hrs a year and attend over 10 major fishing tournaments in other words, clean my boat, swab the deck, pick the barnicles from below, clean my catch, maybe cook it too... Oh yeah, file an IFR for tomorrow, but wash the stench off your hands before using the phone!
Requirements:_
You must have a commercial and multi-engine licenses with and instrument rating. and be Mop Qualified
Company Benefits:_
Good salary and medical benefits. Good? GOOD?!? You've got to be joking mate. Medical benefits are cheap in the islands....you provide the chicken for JuJu luck"

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All antics aside, I realize that someone out there might jump at this position. It just rubs me the wrong way (ya think?). This ad tells me you're more important cleaning his ******* yacht that you are a pilot. I also would bet that the owner IS the boat captain!

Sorry to vent my friends, but really!

2000Flyer

 

[Gulfstream 200]

If I lived in the area and was unemployed I would take the job!........just to purposly run that a$$holes boat up on some rocks at 20 knots.

 

[Flying Illini]

aaarrrgggg indeed!

It doesn't sound like the job includes any stick time either

 

[Rick1128]

Sounds like the owner is also the CAPTAIN on both items.

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

You are pretty much guaranteed that some idoit will take this job. Then 5 or 10 years down the road when he is a RJ driver or whatever making dogsnot wages he will probably be the first one to be screaming about it!


This guy wants a janitor, not a pilot.

 

[750driver]

If I lived in the area and was unemployed I would take the job!........just to purposly run that a$$holes boat up on some rocks at 20 knots.

G200, now that is a classic line ... I love it!

 

[Gulfstream 200]

then I would whack his King Air prop on a taxiway sign or something (nothing to HURT anyone) and claim I was just SO darn exhausted from cleaning the yacht I didnt see it....


all joking aside...someone will actually Thank him/her for getting this position...thats the scary, realistic part.

Gotta love Aviation...

 

[labbats]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but King Air 90s are single pilot aircraft. How exactly are you going to build time? You know this guy won't let you touch his plane other than with a sponge.

 

[StaticWick]

I laughed at your replies and I cried at some of them. But mostly it's the irony that I applied for that position basically because I am steadily going to the poor farm, trying to take care of a family and working myself silly trying to play the "hire me. I’ll fly for food" game with my time and experience I am finding I can't get an interview with anybody unless I agree to "swab a deck" or wash a plane. Because when I am working the flight line (1), flight instructing (2), flying right seat in a BE10 whenever the plane is flying part91 (3) and running my own aircraft detailing business (4) after 3 years it's starting to get old. If I hadn't committed myself and enjoyed flying so much I would have found other pastures to go to! My only regret is I didn't get started soon enough, then instead of being poor trying to find a job, I would be furloughed or unemployed trying to find as job.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

well, dont take it TOO seriously...

Yes, I make jokes about working for this obscene a$$hole of an owner...but from my experience he/she is by far the exception rather than the norm - even in the charter/management arena.....and you can see this type coming a mile away....

how??. ---- has these ludicrious side duties, always switches management companies because everyone is "screwing him", (ya know, everyone is after HIS money) has a reputation as a na$ty prik all over the area, always wants something for free, claims he will "always" have an airplane, etc.....

yeah yeah...


just laugh it off and move on. there are lots of decent jobs out there!

 

[StaticWick]

No sweat G200...you fly what I dream to fly and I have a sneaky feeling once I am there it may not be what my dream is... But if I maintain the reasoning that "I do this because I love to fly" then it won't matter wether it's a King Air or Falcon 2000...(***WHAT AM I SAYING!!??***) Then I don't take it all too serious! Of all the threads I read you provide the humor needed...Thanks!

 

[2000flyer]

"I do this because I love to fly" then it won't matter wether it's a King Air or Falcon 2000...(***WHAT AM I SAYING!!??***) Then I don't take it all too serious!

Static...what ARE you trying to say???

Good luck with the job prospect!

Regards,
2000Flyer

 

[Gulfstream 200]

you will qualify for the decent jobs before you know it -- then will continue to complain!!

I dont know about a "dream" job, but what I do certainly is pretty damm good - no doubt about it. But I went through some pretty bad jobs on the way here (bad meaning long times away, no schedule, low pay, junk equipment..the works)

Now I spend more time at home with my family than any airline guy I know. Fly to MUCH better and challenging places, and fly nice planes...the money could always be better - but I have a feeling I would say that no matter what I made...

I just consider myself lucky and am enjoying it while it lasts!

good luck to ya!