Is Trade Winds Hireing?

[Ragtime67]

Any info on up-comming class dates? Interviews? Who do I send a resume to?

 

[CSY Mon]

Yes, they are hireing.


Send resume to:

[email protected]

 

[Ragtime67]

Thanks for replying CSY Mon. I sent a resume addressed to Bruce Clamp, I hope he's the right hands to get it in to. Can you tell me, What kind of qualifications that they are looking for? from what I can tell, I'm in the ball park. Thanks.

 

[CSY Mon]

Well, They are looking for jet time, the more the better.

I buddy of mine applied with prop and turboprop PIC time, about 7500 hours total, he did not get hired.

Another dude got the job recently with 1900 hours, don't know if he had jet time or not.

Yeah, Bruce Clamp is the Chief Pilot and he looks at the resumes as well.

Good Luck

 

[tk855]

Does Tradewinds home base or is it up to you to live in base/commute?

 

[Boogie]

Here's info on TW's bases.
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/content/view/39/12/
Doesn't look like there's home basing.

 

[Dave Benjamin]

No home basing... But I do belive they will get you a ticket to/from Macau or Taipei if you are based there.

I think it's positive space from LAX for those based in Asia. Not positive so perhaps Bus Driver or someone else can clarify.

 

[CSY Mon]

Yeah, nobody has to pay for their tickets to Asia, or try to jump-seat.

No home basing going on, yet they can be pretty flexible if they need ya somewhere in a hurry...I.O.W, buy ya a ticket.

Some kind of home reserve system was initiated a few months ago, but not sure of the details....They keep changing things anyway.

 

[Ragtime67]

CSY Mon, thanks for your reply yesterday, sorry I could not respond then. From what I've seen here there are more than one new hire with 0 jet time prior to being hired (Flywrite, for example). It does not make much since to me to hire a guy with 1900 hours over someone with 7500 no matter how much jet time you have. But then again, I do not make the rules. Its been my experience,that no matter where you go for a job there is always someone with more of what they are looking for than you have.

Tradewinds sounds like a good place to work and build quality international experience. I just hope they give me a call.

 

[Ragtime67]

Tradewinds has hired from each extreme for a while now. Don't expect that to change.

Total time is not the all-knowing qualifier of experience.

That may be true, but how do know until you sit in front of someone?

 

[Flywrite]

I was hired with zero jet time and so was another guy in my class (he was about 2000 hours, previous 121 time and was hired as an FE (not PFE) with a pretty quick upgrade to FO expected.


One of the Captains I interviewed with stressed that they look for people with the skills to make things work out when the autopilot goes TU and you have to handfly. I mentioned that in the past 12 months I had close to 1000 hours handflying Jetstreams in mid-atlantic airspace/weather with no autopilot and I think that made a good impression.

I did get the impression that once you get to interview it is very muich a personality thing, but as you indicated, getting the interview is the thing. I would just recommend persistence and a good attitude.

Good Luck!

 

[FearlessFreep]

Flywrite,

I don't think that your going to have to "hand fly" that 'bus enroute. Hand flying it on departure/arrival I am sure is just SOP as it is with the aircraft I fly. I have hand flown heavy jets for entire flights in the flight levels (this was pre-US RVSM and they were short only about an 1.5 hours) - both for the fun of it and as a necessity (inop autopilot). It's no big thing.

One of the requirements for RVSM (RVSM is in effect in VHHH area and the PRC) is that you have an operable autopilot with altitude hold capabilities, or specifically " One automatic altitude control system capable of automatically controlling the aircraft to a referenced pressure altitude." Loss of that system would require emergency or contingency actions that would possibly include exiting RVSM airspace. You might get away with not doing that if there are no other aircraft in the area. So in this day and age an operable autopilot is nearly a go/no go item.

My thought is that your employer ( I don't work for Tradewinds) is they are possibly more interested in people that deal effectively with aircraft that are NOT at the highest level of automation and that they can easily interprete all those steam gauges. So your experience flying Junkstreams is a benefit. The "non-skeds" are a very different world compared to the regular airlines.

If I am correct in my assumption Tradewinds 'busses are 3 crewmember aircraft. Your going to have fun! It's the best way to fly heavy aircraft!

 

[Flywrite]

Yeah, I never got the impression, nor meant to convey that they expect a lot of handflying. Perhaps I could have put it better as an interest in proficiency with steam guages instead of glass (as you point out). You are correct, they are 3 holer A300s, and I am looking forward to it!

 

[Floyd94]

I need info on payscale. I heard there was a $10/hr raise. Does that affect everybody, or was that just captains? Ive looked on airlinepilotcentral.com and have heard that they aren't accurate? Truth to this?

 

[I.P. Freley]

Love the avatar, T-Gates... Cruel and unusual punishment to the poor Dokkie, but funny nonetheless!

 

[I.P. Freley]

BTW, not that I am the all-knowing, but I've heard nothing about ENA taking over the FWA-LAX run... Not even a rumor. That doesn't mean it's not true, just that I've heard nothing about it.

 

[Big Dog]

bump.

 

[8inMan]

bump.

 

[Big Dog]

nothing