Dual Rated

[AirCobra]

This is a crazy business. I left the vagaries of airline flying for a corporate job! I am virtually home every night too vs. night after night in hotels with the airlines.

 

[AKAAB]

I limit my nights away from home to a max of 4 a month. Many months I don't do any layovers at all, but that is all because I got my foot in the door at the right time.

There are some fantastic flight departments out there, but I can't say I ever worked for one of them. Just ditching the pager and not being expected to be on call 24/7 (in case the bosses wife needed to rush to South Beach because she heard Marla Trump was out partying) made the move worth it! (For real...)

 

[NuGuy]

Heyas,

Dual rated here. Had a commerical/ME/CFI/CFII fixed wing when I started the heilo thing. A guy was trying to start a rotorwing-instrument program back in the day when the insurance companies were starting to push for them. He subsidized a chunk of my transition cost if I worked for him for a year.

I wound up with my ATP-Rotor/CFI-H/CFII-H and about 800 heilo, with most of that dual given. Back in the early 90's, it was a dead end, and the airlines offered a better top end, so I went back to FW.

I've dabbled bit in trying to get a corporate dual rated job, but they are very tough if you are a FW heavy guy. I certainly wouldn't cough up the $$ for RW if that's what you're thinking of doing, because you will be starting from scratch as far as employers are concerned.

Most dual rated jobs go to RW heavy guys that happen to have FW ratings, and generally not the other way around. Most "postings" for jobs like this are already filled, and the posting is only for legal purposes. But, as always in the corporate world, there is the chance of falling into something. I got a very decent CFI gig because I was dual rated, so you never know.

Nu

 

[Goose Egg]

In a similar vein, is there any way to do some part-time helo work, with a full time FW job at an airline or something like that. I mean, I guess it's possible--anything is, right? But I guess what I'm wondering is there a market for part time helo work?

-Goose

 

[NuGuy]

In a similar vein, is there any way to do some part-time helo work, with a full time FW job at an airline or something like that. I mean, I guess it's possible--anything is, right? But I guess what I'm wondering is there a market for part time helo work?

-Goose

I would only imagine if you had the required heilo time. Most employers I've seen are pretty much unimpressed with any kind of FW time, and you need the same quals as a heilo only guy.

The other issue is flighttime/dutytime. Anything you get paid for counts towards your flight time/duty time limits.

Nu

 

[Goose Egg]

The other issue is flighttime/dutytime. Anything you get paid for counts towards your flight time/duty time limits.

D'OH!!! I had a feeling I'd run into that sort of thing--for some reason I forgot about it. Makes sense though, and I'm pretty sure that job A wouldn't want me blowing all my valuable duty time on job B. Looks like I'll probably have to stick with part 91 for my part-time flying adventures. That's cool though, I'm really enjoying my 121 job at the moment.

Thanks for the input in any case. I guess I am dual rated in a way--airplane and glider.

-Goose

 

[propsarebest]

In a similar vein, is there any way to do some part-time helo work, with a full time FW job at an airline or something like that. I mean, I guess it's possible--anything is, right? But I guess what I'm wondering is there a market for part time helo work?

-Goose

There is a capt. at Skywest that does that. He lives in SLC and flies a 500 on his days off.

Personally, I'd rather fly the egg full time and an RJ part time

 

[Goose Egg]

There is a capt. at Skywest that does that. He lives in SLC and flies a 500 on his days off.

Personally, I'd rather fly the egg full time and an RJ part time

That's pretty sweet . Any idea of who he flies the 500 for? I'm SLC based too... it might be cool to talk to him. I'm picturing myself running heli-skiers on days off.. that'd be pretty fun! Perhaps I could 'sample the merchandise.'

-Goose

 

[atlcrashpad]

Glad to see Silver State get bumped.... their CEO was a Snake Oil salesman..... slippery... bouyyyyyyyy....

Dual Rated here....

 

[propsarebest]

That's pretty sweet . Any idea of who he flies the 500 for? I'm SLC based too... it might be cool to talk to him. I'm picturing myself running heli-skiers on days off.. that'd be pretty fun! Perhaps I could 'sample the merchandise.'

-Goose

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Don't remember, but he is pretty senior- gets lots of time off.

 

[msw]

Dual Rated.....

.......So, sing out if you dual rated. I you are currently flying a fixed-wing, when was the last time you flew a rotorcraft?.......

I'm dual rated too...... Been flying F/W since 1969 and got my Comm Helo add-on in 1999. I much prefer flying helos, just way more fun..... and luckily, in any given week, I get to fly a little bit of King Air 200, some Cessna 210, and some Eurocopter AS350B2 A-Star...... but my favorite flying is the A-Star helicopter. And I'm also lucky because I am home almost every night (maybe 5 RON's a year). I do get shot at every now and then, but what the heck, I can shoot back if I really need to.