Gouge for Kalitta

[Franky4Fingers]

Does anyone have the interview gouge for Kalitta Charter?

 

[BigFlyr]

No gouge, but I heard it helps if you have a criminal record...

 

[Franky4Fingers]

Sounds like a fun place to work!

 

[MisplacedTexan]

BIGFLYR,

Please elaborate on your remarks on your last Post!?....I am confused!!

MisPlaced Texan!

 

[MisplacedTexan]

Franky4Fingers,

I can give you most of the Scoop of the Kalitta Interview...Even though I have been here for 4 years and have not been through an Interview since then...I can tell you what to expect!

1. Know the Part 91 and 135 Regulations...(135.200 series)

2. Know the profiles for basic Insrument approaches!...Even though you will be doing your training and checkride to Learjet criteria, Know the Basics according to the Frasca Sim, because that is the Simulator used for the Interview.

3. Know how to brief an Instrument Approach and a STAR/SID..

4. We have a demanding schedule because we not only fly freight but, Fly Air Ambulance and Passenger Charters on a daily basis!

Unlike other operators in the Michigan area, we are very versatile and fly 3 different types of operations.......Air Ambulance, Charters, and Freight......Every trip is diiferent from one day to the next!

I think you wil enjoy it!~

MisPlacedTexan

 

[BigFlyr]

BIGFLYR,

Please elaborate on your remarks on your last Post!?....I am confused!!

MisPlaced Texan!

Sorry, didn't mean to ruffle any feathers... Just quoting what a couple of friends who worked there in the past have said about working at Kalitta... and they were probably just kidding around.
As a matter of fact, it may be a different company all together being that Kalitta has been in business for a long time.

 

[Franky4Fingers]

Thanks 4 the info MisplacedTexan.

 

[MachBuffet]

Kalitta gouge. Don't know how I wound up on this board. You can choose many ways to get your career going. I was at Kalitta from 95-98. 1st year about $35,000, every year after, at least $65-70,000. VERY hard work, your life ends. You have a pager surgically attached to your hip. I can honestly say that I have not found a harder working group of pilots since I left. The experience I got a KFS was worth its weight in gold. If that place doesn't kill you, you will be a better pilot for the rest of your career. Freight dogs, especially KFS guys are some proud sons-a-bitches. We KNOW we work harder, and can fly circles around some puke in a commuter any day. Different airports every day. I was current and qualified in every plane they had for 3 years. MU2, turbine B18, and lear 23,24,25,35,36. Didn't know what I was flying, to where, with who, or when I would come back until the pager went off at 2:30 in the morning. When UPS went on strike way back, I made $2500 a week flying a ratty, leaky, loud Garret powered B18. Try that anywhere else. Had quite a few $1,000 days in the Lear. The guys that were Europe qualified made over $100,000 a year. I still talk to some of the guys that are there, the schedule is supposed to be better now. Ask yourself what kind of pilot you want to be. Bored by one ILS to another ILS or landing in central Canada after an NDB to mins with pax onboard? Hardest, most fun flying job I will ever have. Go there while the Lear 20 series is still around, you will never regret it. T/O roll to 410 in 9 minutes. I have been a check airman on both the 737 and MD80 (Vanguard) and am luckily in the SWA pool. I have yet, since I left KFS, found a more professional bunch of true "stick" guys since my KFS days. It is not for every one and I bitched with the best of them, they still talk about me there. There are not many places like it around anymore. We would plan fuel stops based on free food or free tshirts and hats. There are a lot of pilots out there, but to use our old chief pilots words there are not many aviators anymore. KFS will make you one. OK, I'm off my box. You'll love/hate the place, but what a ride!!

 

[Lindy]

Pizza in LIT

So, did you consider it a good day or a bad day when the only meals (is Pizza really considered a "meal") you ate were in LIT??

 

[justmeinmsp]

I can remember when I was greatful for popcorn while working there! These guys have pretty well given you the skinny.

 

[Gearmonkey]

Misplaced Texan hit it all on the gouge. I don't think they have been using the Frasca though.

This is not the old Kalitta or even Kitty Hawk. It is way different. The whole group is made up of good people and we all for the most part have a lot of pride in who we are, at least I do. Once you get here, know your stuff and you'll get by just fine.

It's a great place to work. I learn something new everyday and that's what really counts at this point in time for me. I wouldn't trade it for anything else(yet). The pager takes some getting used to, be at the plane in 15 minutes for freight trips and I have gone to Europe on 3 hours notice in the middle of the night. Pay isn't that great, for the first 6 months it's next to nothing. Everyday is different, no 2 flights are alike and that is what is so cool about this place. Great maintenance and all the equipment is in good shape, way better than any of our competitors flying similar equipment out there for sure. Sure you'll eat out of a vending machine once in awhile, but who cares, you have a job!

And no, you don't need a criminal record as a pre-req.