Free Ferry Pilot Available Mid-August

[msw]

I'm Southern California based, and need to be in the VA/DC area around Aug 18th. So...... if anyone needs to ferry an aircraft from West Coast to East Coast, or the other way around, PM me. I will do it for free, though you pay gas, expenses, and the airline ticket for the other way.

I'm an ATP/CFII, Comm helo etc etc etc and am experienced in most light airplanes, light to medium twins, on up through King Airs. Can even ferry a light helo (I'm most experienced with MD500 series)

 

[DAL737FO]

This is how we dilute our profession. There are full time contract guys out there trying to fly to feed their families and we have guys willing to fly for free. If you are a professional pilot then you need to be paid for your services.

 

[Steve]

Can one of the moderators please erase this posting. The industry is in bad enough shape without this dude whoring himself out.

 

[Ty Webb]

Simmer down, clowns.

The guy isn't offering to take someone's job away "to get experience". He needs to get across the country, and he's willing to deliver an airplane in order to get there. Hardly worth getting all bunched up over.

Geez, I offered to help a neighbor move into his new house a few weeks ago, little did I know I would be whoring myself out and putting some low-time professional mover out of work.

If you guys really want to rail against people whoring themselves out, visit the strings on Continental Connection carrier Gulfstream, which doesn;t employ FO's, they basically rent out the right seat as block time.

 

[vclean]

You can buy a round-trip ticket for next to nothing. Why should someone buy a one-way ticket plus expenses to let an unknown, uninsured, unbonded nobody fly their plane coast to coast. There are plenty of registered, legitimate businesses trying to stay busy without someone cutting in line to do it for 'free'.

Buy a ticket and support the industry to which you belong.

 

[labbats]

Simma down now.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

I agree, the guys a F'n whore..

Why not get paid at least something for safely bringing an aircraft across the country?

 

[Ralph]

I'll do it

Actually I'd like to make the same trip. PM me and I'm willing to pay for the gas, but you still have to pay the airline ticket.

 

[skypine69]

whore!

 

[jergar999]

No, ME! I'll pay to do it! I'll pay for flight safety, pay for a ticket to where the airplane is, ferry it, cover the gas and landing fees, and then when I get there, I'll pay you a per hour rental rate, before buying my own ticket home!! ME ME ME!!!

 

[ClassG]

If you wash and wax it upon delivery YOU GOT THE JOB!

By the way, it's a newly completed experimental finished just last week from a set of plans I found in an old Popular Mechanics. I used a 10 HP Briggs and Stratton and wittled the prop from last year's Christmas tree.

I learned so much from this project about what parts you can and can't buy from Lowes to build an airplane.

I'm sure it's completely safe, but I need someone to take it out to the East Coast for me so I can display it at an airshow there. I'd do it myself, but the FAA says I need a licensed pilot to flight test it and, well, I can't solo it until my flight instructor is sure it's airworthy.

Thanks for the help!!

 

[jergar999]

ClassG

Wash and wax!?!? I am a PILOT!! Washing and waxing is beneath me! Plus, experimental is no fun, I can't even pay for training for an experimental! This whole deal is off!

 

[Ty Webb]

You guys are killing me.

If you guys aren't man enough to do it on your own, I'll ride along and hold your hand . . . but, when we get to the FBO's along the way, the loose change in the cracks of the recliners in the crew lounges are all mine . . . . and I'm not sharing it with any of you.