Denver Area Jobs

[flyf15]

Anyone know of any flying jobs in the Denver area for someone with 500 TT and 100 ME? Tips on anything would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mnalpha]

great lakes

 

[Doubleo6point9]

What exactly are you looking to do? Instruct?

 

[jjetpilot]

United Mainline

 

[flyf15]

Well, I'm tied down with college for another 11 months so I can't go for Great Lakes. Pretty much anything that gets me in the air otherwise though, including instructing. I'm in the north area so Centennial and Front Range arent' really ideal.

Thanks much!

 

[Doubleo6point9]

I haven't heard too much about anything up north recently, but a few months ago I was told about someone opening up a new flight school up in Boulder or something to that effect. Sorry I can't be of more help but if you might be interested in freelancing at APA I might be able to help you there.

 

[dojetdriver]

Well, I'm tied down with college for another 11 months so I can't go for Great Lakes. Pretty much anything that gets me in the air otherwise though, including instructing. I'm in the north area so Centennial and Front Range arent' really ideal.

Thanks much!

Well, I'm from Denver and the only people that called me for a job were on the East Coast, which wasn't really "ideal" for me either. I could have moved but 4 base closures in 4 years would have made that a silly move. I drove 1+ hrs a day to FTG to instuct, and yes, it sucked doing that 6-7 days a week. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and suck up the commute if you want the work and live where you want.

 

[Guitar Guy]

Try BJC for instructing jobs or depending on how "north" you are, look at FCL.

Depending on what you are doing in 11 months and if you like living out here, you might try Great Lakes. If you think that's a possibility for you, start trying to network and make some contacts. GLA hires a lot of people from the DEN area.

 

[Cardinal]

Mile High Skydiving?

 

[JRSLim]

There has been a few pilots that I know from here in the Springs that Great Lakes has hired. The latest word is they are looking for 1000TT and 100Multi. Here's my recommendation - got to Airnav.com (and the phone book) and look up the airports in the area - BJC, APA, FTG. Make a resume. Find out who the contact is at each school to address a resume to (just call them and ask). Put together individual cover letters and drop them by in person. If you can personally hand the resume to the chief instructor even better, talk to him. Keep supplying updated resumes. If you have no instruction experience it will be a little uphill. Some schools may offer to let you use their planes to instruct in on your own - this means you'll need insurance. I think theres about four skydiving places in that area - definately see if you can call, visit, get to know them if you can. I know one place has a 206, and there's also Twotter and King Air operations

 

[Cardinal]

That 1000/100 bit at Lakes isn't binding. They allocate points based on several criteria. 1000/100 gets you a point, a degree gets you a point, and so on. Subsequently, they may very well ignore whatever ranking they generated if they like you for whatever reason. Or can't fill a class.

 

[Doubleo6point9]

Well, I'm from Denver and the only people that called me for a job were on the East Coast, which wasn't really "ideal" for me either. I could have moved but 4 base closures in 4 years would have made that a silly move. I drove 1+ hrs a day to FTG to instuct, and yes, it sucked doing that 6-7 days a week. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and suck up the commute if you want the work and live where you want.

When and where did you instruct at when you were there? Just curious since I did my pvt and inst rating there.