Flying people vs. boxes?

[Wang Chung]

Scheduled and Nonscheduled

Unscheduled boxes are OK if you like lots of variety. I get bored after about a week of scheduled runs (our small company does both).

Ad-hoc cargo has taken me all over the U.S. and into Canada and Mexico. At the other extreme, I've met some scheduled guys who have spent the good part of their last 800-1000 hours flying between the same 2 or 3 airports. That would drive me friggin' nuts.

The lifestyle is definitely rougher than scheduled freight, but it's more of an adventure for sure.

Regardless of schedules, stay away from freight altogether if you can't handle the night life.

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

 

[WrightAvia]

NIGHT FREIGHT?

who mentioned night freight....that is a different business all together. All of our planes are on the ground by 8:30 PM central standard time and emptied of freight and locked up by 9:00 PM CST.

In the morning they don't go out again till 5:30-6:30 in the morning. Heck during most of the year, that flying can't even be logged as night flying legally.

I spend 10 days a month on the job, all my weekends are 3 day weekends...and I sleep in my own bed 30 days a month, unless I get weathered out or unless I am in recurrent training.

You guys can keep perpetuating the myths about freight all you want...but at least I'm working and making O.K. money doing it and I am at HOME at NIGHT....every night.

 

[Falconjet]

WrightAvia: Who do you work for and where do you fly out of? Just curious about the operation. What do you fly and where do you go to? Is the company hiring? Thanks.

 

[WrightAvia]

I work for one of the Fedex contractors

I really can't say which one. If you look on www.google.com and search for caravanpilots, you will find a web site dedicated to the caravan pilots and their operators and you'll find some links there to cargo operators in general.

We're not hiring as of this minute, but we lost 3 pilots recently. If they are going to replace these pilot losses from the outside...I'll let you know.