Key lime or pipeline

[rumorhasit]

Just wanted to get some feedback on this ..........Got a job offer from key lime to fly the navajo for 6/8 months then upgrade to the metro but just got a job offer to fly pipeline for double the pay with weekends off plus benifits my thing is i ahve 1100 hours and want to fly corporate . i know key lime i can get multi and pipeline is vfr but the pay is alot better so just trying to get some ideas out there

 

[b707guy]

No experience in these areas, but my gut for the types of flying in question is that pipeline work is looked upon as "real" flying. The pay and benefits differences are a personal call (family needs, short term finances, etc...), but it's all PIC with pipeline and if you really feel the need for multi time, the extra pay over key lime gives you an opportunity to get multi time on your own which may be another feather in your cap for resume fodder over SIC on someone else's dime. Best of luck!:beer:

 

[rumorhasit]

reply pipeline flying

thxs yea with the extra pay i can go get more multi i have over 450 just trying to get more hours but i guess overall its flying and like i said the pay is a lot better plus i dont have to move or commute ..

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Seems to me that Key Lime does not have the best reputation either. If they are doing a bunch of DHL freight, then there might be some big changes over there as well.

 

[wrxpilot]

I highly recommend you do a search for Key Lime to see what you could be getting into.

 

[rumorhasit]

yea ,
I heard of somethings over there but you know that this industry there are a bunch of rumors the best i have always thought is to find out for yourself .The pipeline gig is cool but i am looking in a year from know would a corporate company frown doing pipeline or working for a 135 would be better flying a cessna is cool but not in the long haul..but man the pay is great i could always get a rating later?????

 

[dickburns]

It's a toss up as far as the pay and qol go. I would say key-lime (minus their reputation) is "real" flying as well. They are all /A, hand flying all weather. I knew a guy that flew pipeline for a year and almost washed out of easy 135 training, mainly because the entire previous year all he had was vfr time in a 172. It's all PIC at key lime also, as long as you dont ride right seat in the metro. Multi-pic versus single pic, thats your call as well. Just because you stay instrument current doesnt mean you can fly instruments (all that vfr time flying at 500 feet over oil fields comes to mind again).​

From the guys I know that fly at lime, they all live at the outstations since your last flight of the week is an outbound from Denver to the podunk town. Some of them may be cool to live in but if you want to reside in Denver that may mean a multiple hour drive on saturday morning for a few hours in the city then back out on sunday night for the early monday morning flight to apa.​

 

[rumorhasit]

What i would like to know from someone out there flying corporate if flying pipeline is going to hurt me instead of flying for this 135 company , still pic but vfr .but i have close to 500 multi and this would allow me to get my atp in about 5month . Just trying to get some info from someone but i am just glad to have a good paying job flying i guess that all that matter these days...........................feel bad for thoses guy loosing jobs out there and it is only going to get worse.

 

[Caboclo]

Depending on what kind of corporate you're looking at, you could just about go there now. Do you have something specific in mind for your long-term goal, and have you checked their minimums?

 

[rumorhasit]

yea still short for a fo position . looking for a lear