Eagle Air Med

[Nolife]

Looking for info on Eagle Air Med... that's Eagle Air Med in the New Mexico, Arizona area.

 

[414Flyer]

If they tell you the pay is 63K, ask how they arrive at that.

They have good planes, but I was not that impressed how they advertised schedule was 10 days off a month, and then said pay was around 63k. 63K is only if you give up 5 of your off days, and if you just have 5 other days possibly scatterred in the month, not much time to get off the rez.

I would have a hard time living in Chinle or Kayenta, without chances to get out of there monthly. I hear they have a Alamosa base, which would be a lot better. Except for the thirty below in winter, but at least you have some college chicks to keep you warm that will be impressed by a C90

 

[flatspin7]

Kayenta is a hole... avoid like the plague!!!
There is literally nothing around for miles. I used to have a job where I had 5 hour sits up there and the only thing to do was to chill at the holiday inn.

 

[avbug]

If you're a city slicker kind of guy, then the reservation is not for you. Otherwise, it's not a bad place. Just remember you're not in kansas any more; you're in another nation; in that case the Navajo Nation.

Eagle Air Med used to be Blanding Air Ambulance, a dba of Scenic Aviation. The owner crashed several airplanes, the former Chief Pilot liked to brag about running airplanes out of fuel with passengers aboard. They wrecked a number of airplanes at Chinle. Flew an airplane for six months with a spar cracked in three places. Anther with the gear trunions so badly damaged that it wouldn't stay up. They were eventually forced to close, and came back with King Air's under a new name, and secured business with the BIA and the Navajo Nation due to "tribal connections."

The owner had to bow out, and his sons run it, sons who were responsible for pencil whipping annuals (they're not mechanics) for years...airplanes that came up on inspections, got pushed into the hangar, then pulled out by the sons an hour later with a promise that the inspections were complete...and so forth.

If you can envision life in which you begin to fantasize about taco bell on a regular basis, then you might do well with Eagle/Scenic.

 

[414Flyer]

If you can envision life in which you begin to fantasize about taco bell on a regular basis, then you might do well with Eagle/Scenic.

There is actually a taco bell in Kayenta now. I dont know anything about the pre C421 days, but the they have been the current company at least with 421 then they got the king airs.

If someone is married and has a wife that is in the medical field, could be a good opportunity to go out there for a year, and both work and bank some good money then get the heck out.

As a single guy, it would not be an easy place to live, unless flying a king air on the rez is your dream and you dont care about boobies and beers anymore.

I think they are an improved company over what they were in the past, but I can think of better places to be

 

[avbug]

There is actually a taco bell in Kayenta now.

Then perfection is only a tick away.

Kayenta, just on the edge of monument valley by a little bit of a drive, is a scenic place.

Where else could one work and consider a trip to Flagstaff to be a vacation?

 

[EdAtTheAirport]

Yeah, and if you really want to live it up, you can drive to Gallup. (No offense to my good friends at Gallup Flying Service).

 

[captjim]

I hated that place, even Blanding was a living hell!

 

[CaravanMan]

Yeah, Blanding sucked! I was only there for a few minutes one day in one of our King Airs (diff company) and that place seemed like a hole.

 

[Nolife]

Thanks for the reponses. Talked to the lady the other day and it didn't sound too good. For the location and what I'd be giving up, nice house, city life, snake free home, etc. they don't pay enough.

 

[414Flyer]

Yeah, and if you really want to live it up, you can drive to Gallup. (No offense to my good friends at Gallup Flying Service).

You know when you are in a low point in life when you drive to Gallup to have fun.

 

[avbug]

Canyon de Chelly is quite nice this time of year.

I drove across the res last night, around 0300, and kept coming across burning cars. Someone was lighting off cars along the roadside. Each one I came to was fully involved, nobody around. I phoned it in. Slow night on the reservation.

 

[EdAtTheAirport]

Ahhh the desert southwest. You know Bug, the point of the burning cars is to provide nighttime lighting for that gorgeous landscape.

What I can't figure out is the broken beer bottles on the runway. Have they cleaned up 5V5 yet? How is ZUN doing these days?

 

[414Flyer]

Ahhh the desert southwest. You know Bug, the point of the burning cars is to provide nighttime lighting for that gorgeous landscape.

What I can't figure out is the broken beer bottles on the runway. Have they cleaned up 5V5 yet? How is ZUN doing these days?

Wonder if they are still breaking runway lights at Zuni and sitting out on the runway on cinder blocks when drinking.

 

[celloman]

Nothing like lining up to take off out of Zuni and having to get OUT of the airplane to tell the kids not play on the runway!

Or in crownpoint when the cops were drag racing down the runway.......

As for eagleair med... I know a few guys who have liked it ok. Living in Gallup was hard enough let alone out in BFE.

 

[avbug]

They have a new airport and a paved runway at Chinle now. Not so when I flew there. Mud, thick, red mud. The kids used to sit at the end of the runway and shoot us when we flew over. Something different than shooting the dog packs.

Personally, I think it's a pretty landscape.

The runway at Chinle used to be 60 watt lightbulbs in expanded metal cages, and the locals would steal the bulbs for home use. Horses on the runway was common. Then again, down on the San Carlos res, we had to chase the locals off the runway in the morning and evening before we could land. And we had to clean out the airplanes after every flight, every stitch of gear, because it would walk off at a slow run.

I stood next to one of those cars as it burned, glanced down at my feet, at a stream of melted auto running downhill, and surveyed the interior. No bodies. Or nothing apparent, anyway. They tend to char on the outside, and keep their form, like badly cooked meat...not the clean crematorium ashes that they tell you is uncle charlie (and really isn't). Nobody there.

I got to thinking about all the times I've pulled off on one of those little dirt roads to rest for an hour or two, and then got to picturing someone stealing the gas before breaking the window and dropping in a molative cocktail. There are better ways to wake up in the middle of nowhere.

 

[emspilot 01]

Eagle Air Medical

They have a new airport and a paved runway at Chinle now. Not so when I flew there. Mud, thick, red mud. The kids used to sit at the end of the runway and shoot us when we flew over. Something different than shooting the dog packs.

Personally, I think it's a pretty landscape.

The runway at Chinle used to be 60 watt lightbulbs in expanded metal cages, and the locals would steal the bulbs for home use. Horses on the runway was common. Then again, down on the San Carlos res, we had to chase the locals off the runway in the morning and evening before we could land. And we had to clean out the airplanes after every flight, every stitch of gear, because it would walk off at a slow run.

I stood next to one of those cars as it burned, glanced down at my feet, at a stream of melted auto running downhill, and surveyed the interior. No bodies. Or nothing apparent, anyway. They tend to char on the outside, and keep their form, like badly cooked meat...not the clean crematorium ashes that they tell you is uncle charlie (and really isn't). Nobody there.

I got to thinking about all the times I've pulled off on one of those little dirt roads to rest for an hour or two, and then got to picturing someone stealing the gas before breaking the window and dropping in a molative cocktail. There are better ways to wake up in the middle of nowhere.

I would have to agree

 

[emsdude]

Run, run far away! I was a pilot with Eagle Air Med until last week when the D.O. gave me the option of flying an aircraft with a known grounding discrepancy or being terminated. I won't break the law so I was fired. All previous posts are correct. The maintenance is shoddy, the pay is only good if you work 25 days a month -which you will be required to because they're short pilots (because of the way pilots are treated and the crappy life on the rez.) The FAA, CAMTS, and OSHA are now all investigating. Don't jump on a sinking ship.

 

[emsdude]

Run, run far away! I was a pilot with Eagle Air Med until last week when the D.O. gave me the option of flying an aircraft with a known grounding discrepancy or being terminated. I won't break the law so I was fired. All previous posts are correct. The maintenance is shoddy, the pay is only good if you work 25 days a month -which you will be required to because they're short pilots (because of the way pilots are treated and the crappy life on the rez.) The FAA, CAMTS, and OSHA are now all investigating. Don't jump on a sinking ship.

 

[414Flyer]

I was going to tell you about a air21 legal judgement, but I see you already found it. A company like EAM should really know better than to pull stuff like that.

 

[propsarebest]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14278130/detail.html



RIP

 

[414Flyer]

Thats sucks. I know of some people over there, from when I flew for a competitor in that neck of the woods.

 

[414Flyer]

Wreckage found, no survivors.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7094748

 

[Av8rPHX]

Being a Paramedic down here in Phoenix, we would sometimes get transfers from Eagle Air that would come into Sky Harbor. I had a chance to work with the Medic that was on that place during a transport to a local hospital . He was a good guy and very knowledgeable at what he did. RIP to everyones family involved.

 

[CaravanMan]

Very sorry to read this. My prayers and condolences for them and their families.

 

[emsdude]

Still want to fly for Eagle Air Med?

 

[AMANSWORLD]

Flew for them about 10 years ago. They were unsafe then and unsafe now. Jon Hunt used to own the operation. He is a scumbag!

The FAA should have shut these a$$wipes down years ago.

 

[414Flyer]

Do they have that operation in Hawaii going or are they just trying to start one up there? Not that I am interested, just curious

 

[celloman]

you know you want to work for them!!!

Amy called last night looking for you, said something about her child support. Oh and you need to go and get the birds out of her car.

 

[414Flyer]

you know you want to work for them!!!

Amy called last night looking for you, said something about her child support. Oh and you need to go and get the birds out of her car.

Why should I have to pay child support for another one of your babies?

At least I didnt shack up with some butt ugly flight nurse, who wore so much makeup, one would expect her to be driving around in some little clown car with circus music playing.

You need to get back to Gallup so you can be chief pilot and raise Trinas crack babies together