Gulfsteram Intl.... Street Captain

[capt1900]

If you people come to GIA you better join the union and keep it strong or you will be fired well short of a thousand PIC.

 

[maxpayrollcruz]

Did GIA purchase Air Midwest?

 

[VxClimb]

Can any GIA pilot confirm that you can work up to 120 hours on the B1900?

You can, and you will whether you like it or not. This place is so short on poelpe (that would explain the 17 hour turn around time after submitting a resume). I am on pace to hit my 1000 hours PIC in less than 11 months. Scheduling will call you up to 5 times a day starting at 430 am on your days off, then you might get the occasional call from a crew scheduler from thier personal cell phone tricking you so they can junior man you. After you unvoluntarily fly 119.9 hours that month you will then find that your paycheck is way less than what it should be, not to mention not knowing your next months schedule until two days before the month starts. All that aside, a great place to work, best 1900 contract in the industry (when enforced), schedules not too bad, the flying is great and quick time build if thats what your looking for.

 

[JediNein]

Any training contracts?

 

[The_Russian]

You can, and you will whether you like it or not. This place is so short on poelpe (that would explain the 17 hour turn around time after submitting a resume). I am on pace to hit my 1000 hours PIC in less than 11 months. Scheduling will call you up to 5 times a day starting at 430 am on your days off, then you might get the occasional call from a crew scheduler from thier personal cell phone tricking you so they can junior man you. After you unvoluntarily fly 119.9 hours that month you will then find that your paycheck is way less than what it should be, not to mention not knowing your next months schedule until two days before the month starts. All that aside, a great place to work, best 1900 contract in the industry (when enforced), schedules not too bad, the flying is great and quick time build if thats what your looking for.

Or, you could be like me and credit 157 and only get termination threats because the management can't follow the rules the the FAA set for them in our Ops Specs.

It's the pilots themselves who must know and enforce the contract. No one will enforce it for you. The reason they get away with treating us so bad is because less than half of the pilots are in the union. On top of that, most of the pilots let the company do whatever they want to them.

The place is short on people, so we have to stand strong together to get what we need. We also need to actively inform new pilots how "how it is", "how they (mngmt) are", and "how we must act".

Ruskie

 

[The_Russian]

If you people come to GIA you better join the union and keep it strong or you will be fired well short of a thousand PIC.

You know it!

:beer:

 

[The_Russian]

Any training contracts?

Nope. We do have a 50% washout rate, though!

 

[ProPilot5]

No training contract as far as I know.

Street hire captain weren't given any contract and have not heard of any since.

I think there may be a slight missunderstanding of flying 120 hours. You can easily credit 120 to 130 hours of credit since you are paid the better of 4 hours / scheduled flight time / actual flight time / 1/2 duty pay. So if you work 13 hours you will get at least 6.5 hours of pay or flight time if higher.

With 120 hours of credit you can fly 85 to 90 hours a month with 9 or 10 days off.

I know there are some checkairman crediting 140s plus but difficult unless you want 4 days off a month.

Most lines are 11(the min.) to 16 days off. Average is prob. 13 days off, with 85hours of credit. If you work another 4 days you can credit 110+. Open time within 3 days is paid at 6hr min.

More than 1/2 paycheck have errors .5 hours to 8 or 9 hours. You have to fight for every extra .5 hr of pay and union has no backing to go in and fix things. There is no sick pay except to bring you up to monthly scheduled and we are even fighting for that since co. want to bring you up to the min. 75 hours only. They only see it as an insurance policy, eventhough you still have to pay for short term and long term dissability.

Medical is 250 to 600+ /mo for family and is very limited with very expensive co-pays on perscriptions. A family of 4 can run an easy $1000/mo.

The company is in the bottom of the 121 field as other 1900 operators. You can get good hours quick but there is no fair treatment of pilot group. Saying any more would just be a rant.

Come get good stick time in sunny, hot, FL, but remember there is a mutual using situation here, you get flight time they use and abuse you for all they can. Please don't complain once here as it doen't help the rest of us.

There are hiring a lot of Street Captains with a variety of backgrounds, some with only 172 time.

Best of luck.

 

[JediNein]

Do they get pissed if you stick a 396 on the panel with XM's NEXRAD on it during flight? I'm assuming the planes aren't glass cockpits with the latest and greatest.

 

[CoAlpha]

i heard dave attells((sp) - the up all night guy)) brother works there

truth to this?

 

[eaglemaster]

Ill be in the 11th class as of now. Interview? 2 mins long, followed by a handshake and welcome. The other fellow and I got the same actually. We both had equell total time and BE 1900 time.. I was told the MIMS for Left Seat is ATP multiengine standards,.= or have the fkight time and a written ATP. The check ride will take care of your ATP by default. The meet and greet with Tom, the DO introduced us to the Chief Pilot (friendly but all business) then we were off to pee in a cup. Once we did that, upstairs for Human Resource paperwork, Ya Know? work HX of 10 years? FAA certs and Medical, log books, and stacked application which takes about 2 hours if you have you personnel notes, certs, loggs, ect. All Captain ( i was told) will be in class at Gulfstream Academy for 121 Indoc and systems, BE1900 sim in Orlando, or Witchita KS I was told I can max out on my duty time with the amount of cpt lines and still leave the bid due to duty times SWEET!

 

[eaglemaster]

the commute to FLL MIA from DFW

So what are the best commuting routes to MIA FLL to and from DFW,? which ones are empty? any help would be awsome! I am starting at Gulfstream. Yes! they are hiring street captains!

 

[OPECJet]

Wondering about commutability myself.

How are the lines for that, and how quick to holding one?

 

[AV80R]

Gulfsteram Intl....

I think their interview starts with a written test followed by a spelling check.

 

[fatazz]

Dave Attells brother did work at Gulfstream not sure if he still does though. Nothing like his brother.