Execstar Aviation @ FXE

[MSNFlier]

A buddy of mine is curious about the place. Aircraft, pay, working conditions, maintenance, etc. Is there a better place to work in the FLL/FXE area for someone with about 1600 TT and 700 ME?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

 

[El Duderino]

Hello andymsn,
Tell your buddy to diffinently not work at Execstar at FXE. The owner, is abusive, underpays, skims on mx, and has a bunch of people with work visas working for him.
I have a friend that worked for them and would tell me stories I couldn't believe. He said the pay was by the mile, and one pay period after flying for him for 55 hours in two weeks, he received a check for $550, which at most places flying down here is around $1400 or more. He has heard the owner calling some of his black employees racial insults to there face in front of others. The guy constantly cusses, its his nature. He can't control himself, when he is mad he makes threating verbally abusive comments, I'm told. My friend was also slandered all over the airport by this guy, after he left.
Another story is he was headed off on a flight and the plane was past the ten hour grace for its hundred hour, he went back into dispatch and they printed up a new log sheet on the computer, and off he went. He said it never had 100 hour until the next time around. They also recently had a Baron crash, thank god the young man flying survived. I remember always hearing how he didn't have a choice in flying the hurricanes in the fall, and when it came to weather, whether zero zero and part 135, or lines topping FL600 these guys were forced to go, all with out radar.
Because of all of this he left to another operator after a month.
There are plenty of operators that fly light twins in south florida, I suggest he moves down here and starts looking. Busy season is close by and there will be quite a bit of hiring going on. If he is current with a 8410 in a C-400 series or Navajo, it will help. With his time he will find something, if he had his ATP he would be better off, as some of these guys are having drastically higher insurance rates because of a few recent tragedies.

good luck to you and your friend,
Dude

 

[TurboS7]

He survived the greatest crash in aviation history so he must be worth something. Be careful who you slander on this board your comments are way out of line.

 

[FLGator911]

?? What was the greatest crash in history?

 

[TurboS7]

TER

 

[El Duderino]

I don't think they're way out of line, the way this guy operates. Every person I have ever talked to about Execstar or the owner has said nothing but awful things. I heard the so called "greatest crash ever survived" was him during his drug running days in south america. Some hero. This andymsn has a right to have his query answered by someone who knows a little about the place.

dude

 

[TurboS7]

I live two miles from FXE and have been around and worked at the airport ..........more than likely I started there about the time you were in elementary school. The point is that there is a good reason to have avialiability of private messages and that is what they should be used for.