FLOPs latest Interview gouge?

[EX_CV580FR8Dawg]

Now that they are interviewing, has anyone got the latest on the interviews? I see the last one was dated Sept '05.

 

[Ben Dover FLOPS]

The gouge is:

You don't want to work at this sh!thole. Wait 'til the contract is in place. You are better off to stay away from FLOPS!

 

[SilverSurfer]

Low standards

All you brand new flight instructors and real low time guys hang in there are little longer. Floptions is going to be lowering their starting min before long down to 500 hr. or so. We are hearing rumorers that they already have done this and hired some rich kid with about 600 hr just be caused he flew a single engine around the world with out killing him self. I hope that our negotiations guys put flight instructor pay in our contract since we are going to be flying with beginners.

 

[Frac Cap]

To get the job, you need to say yes you are willing to work 8 days in a row for close to 14 hours each day with minimum 10 hours of rest.

I haven't been able to post anything all week due to exhaustion and lack of time due to me needing to maximize my minimum time off for rest so I could do another 14 hour day with yet again minimum rest. I have just done the most strenuous, grueling tour in my history with Flight Options. After doing 3 days of over 12 hours, I was able to ask for my 12 hours off to recuperate. Then they threw another grueling day at me and tried to get me to do 6 legs with yet again minimum rest. They were unable and unwilling to give me a break due to most of our aircraft down and as a result the ones unlucky enough to have a green plane, well you get everyone else's trips, and it just doesn't stop. So I had to call fatigue to put a stop to it before we had a serious screw up. I don't know about most, but I can't do these kind of days anymore. I thought once HIG took over, they were going to make this a better place with new core aircraft, more pilots, and better pay. Well HIG has lost my vote for "most likely to succeed". I no longer have confidence that they are trying to resurrect Flight Options into a place that people would want to work for and fly with.

I use to be a moderate not for, or against Flight Options. It was just a place to work. I never tried to knock Flight Options as a company. Well as of now, I am actively trying to find work elsewhere. I can not work like a dog, and be paid like one too. I hope HIG can try to pull Flops out of this spiraling nose dive, but I am now skeptical.

To F&H, if this was your goal, fear, doubt, and uncertainty. Congratulations, it worked.

 

[FR8DOG777]

Don't quit Bro

Don't give up frac cap, we need guys like you around for the fire sale. Otherwise it will all be B19's, Powerloungin, and skanza's flying here.

 

[PigPile]

***Intended for the Original Poster***
Before you get all tied up over an interview, you may want to search around to see if it is an interview worth attending. Read all the FLOPS stuff out there and you will see that the pilots over there are not to impressed with the company as a whole. Sometimes the grass just looks greener because it is on the other side of the fence. Climb over and you might just find that it's dead.

 

[Frac Cap]

I appreciate that, but I'm not willing to be the last one to turn the lights out, and be waiting in the back of the interviewing line. I have to do what's best for my family in the long run. In my opinion, I would rather be a co-pilot at NJ making about the same amount of money that I am now as a captain, with less responsibilities and working less (due to their higher dispatch-ability), and a nearly guaranteed future. I don't know when or if I would get an interview due to the huge stack that I hear they have, but baring any radical changes here, it just makes sense to bail on my terms if I get the opportunity, and not risk being in an unemployment line with 500 other pilots at the same time.

 

[PigPile]

I appreciate that, but I'm not willing to be the last one to turn the lights out, and be waiting in the back of the interviewing line. I have to do what's best for my family in the long run. In my opinion, I would rather be a co-pilot at NJ making about the same amount of money that I am now as a captain, with less responsibilities and working less (due to their higher dispatch-ability), and a nearly guaranteed future. I don't know when or if I would get an interview due to the huge stack that I hear they have, but baring any radical changes here, it just makes sense to bail on my terms if I get the opportunity, and not risk being in an unemployment line with 500 other pilots at the same time.

If I was in your position I would do the same. But, my previous post was intended for the original poster. Sorry that I didnt make that clear. Good luck in whatever you choose to do. It is a shame to see such talent (Flops pilots in general) wasted and not appreciated.

 

[johnsonrod]

Now that they are interviewing, has anyone got the latest on the interviews? I see the last one was dated Sept '05.

Why would you even consider FLOPS? So, you are really aiming high, aren't you? FLOPS is considered the WORST fractional for many reasons. Evidently, you're too lazy to read the many, many posts about the downhill slide at FLOPS.

Go ahead, enjoy the Beechjunk for the next 10 years as a FO. Sure, the Phenoms will arrive but you won't touch them for a long time. The fact that you are even considering FLOPS given their current deteriorating situation (when much better fractional options exist) shows they are, in fact, already lowering their standards...

 

[RNObased]

Why would you even consider FLOPS? So, you are really aiming high, aren't you? FLOPS is considered the WORST fractional for many reasons. Evidently, you're too lazy to read the many, many posts about the downhill slide at FLOPS.

Go ahead, enjoy the Beechjunk for the next 10 years as a FO. Sure, the Phenoms will arrive but you won't touch them for a long time. The fact that you are even considering FLOPS given their current deteriorating situation (when much better fractional options exist) shows they are, in fact, already lowering their standards...

Johnson,
Do you even fly for a fractional??? Anyway, if you think the Phenoms will show up you are a little mis-guided. There has to be some place to deliver them to, and at this rate, FLOPs won't be around.