Gulfstream Corporate Dept

[cgmason1]

Does anyone have any insight on how it is flying for the Corporate Dept for Gulfstream? (either good or bad)

I have two friends considering leaving the airlines for a position there.

Thanks and Fly Safe
Chuck

 

[GVFlyer]

Does anyone have any insight on how it is flying for the Corporate Dept for Gulfstream? (either good or bad)

I have two friends considering leaving the airlines for a position there.

Thanks and Fly Safe
Chuck

Great leadership (VP - USAF, Demo Chief Pilot- Navy Captain, Flight Test Chief Pilot - Marine Cobra Pilot), industry leading compensation package to include a company match 401k plan, annual bonus plan, rewarding excellence plan and a defined benefit pension plan. Great security in the most profitable aircraft manufacturer in the country which is a subsidary corporation of one of the nation's foremost defence contractors.

Senior pilot has been in the department for over 25 years. Constant job offers if you want to go elsewhere. Chief pilots of numerous Gulfstream operations came from Gufstream Flight Ops.

Performance based transition path to the large cabin Gulfstreams if you are flying the G100/G150/G200.

There are several former airline pilots in the department that voluntarily left Northwest, Delta and others to come to Gulfstream. In the last 15 years one pilot has left to go to Delta (presently furloughed) and three to FedEx in 1994(all flying MD-11's and lovin' it).

If you're in flight test you will work every day and one weekend a month - days off and the use of vacation are discouraged; if you are a demo pilot - you receive one day off for everyday that you are on the road minus one day and you usually spend 8-14 days a month flying.


GV

 

[fokkerjet]

Great leadership (VP - USAF, Demo Chief Pilot- Navy Captain, Flight Test Chief Pilot - Marine Cobra Pilot), industry leading compensation package to include a company match 401k plan, annual bonus plan, rewarding excellence plan and a defined benefit pension plan. Great security in the most profitable aircraft manufacturer in the country which is a subsidary corporation of one of the nation's foremost defence contractors.

GV

Ya, but do you get a discount on your products........say 10% off and brand new G550

 

[some_dude]

"days off and the use of vacation are discouraged"????

What kind of cheapo operation are you guys running?

If you are only working weekdays and hardly ever on the road, I can understand not having days off, but no vacation?

If you're in flight test you will work every day and one weekend a month - days off and the use of vacation are discouraged; if you are a demo pilot - you receive one day off for everyday that you are on the road minus one day and you usually spend 8-14 days a month flying.


GV

 

[GVFlyer]

"days off and the use of vacation are discouraged"????

What kind of cheapo operation are you guys running?

If you are only working weekdays and hardly ever on the road, I can understand not having days off, but no vacation?

It's a joke concerning how hard flight test works in comparison to the demo slackers. A little inter-department rivalry as it were. OK, maybe there's a kernel of truth in it in that the Chief Test Pilot probably thinks that everybody's work-ethic needs improvement.

Test pilots do demo flights, do on-site training for international customers, travel among the various Gulfstream locations to perform myriad flight tests and evaluations, and have provided captains for various international flight departments on a 30 day rotation basis.

Everybody gets three weeks vacation to start.

GV







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[AA717driver]

GV speaks the truth. If you work there, people are always calling for contract pilots. You find out who is hiring and what kind of deal they have.

Working for a Marine would suck, though... TC

 

[Ty Webb]

A few years ago, word was that the pay there was ridiculously low- has that improved?

 

[GVFlyer]

A few years ago, word was that the pay there was ridiculously low- has that improved?

Gulfstream pays at the 90th percentile of the 2003 NBAA Compensation and Benchmark Survey.

GV

 

[Ty Webb]

Gulfstream pays at the 90th percentile of the 2003 NBAA Compensation and Benchmark Survey.

GV

Glad to hear it that it was just a bad rumor. Sweet machines.

 

[GVFlyer]

Glad to hear it that it was just a bad rumor. Sweet machines.

Thanks, I like the 717 as well. Lee Johnson was the GV Chief Test Pilot during GV development, after certification he left Gulfstream for a similar position on the 717 development team at Long Beach. I visited him a few times during the development program and was very impressed with the airplane. Good tough, reliable, American airliner that will last through 50-60,000 hours of short fields, hard landings and hard braking. I've been disappointed that Boeing hasn't promoted it better, but, it's probably a thing of we didn't design it so we don't like it. In any event it's a fine airplane.

GV







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