Looking for Air Ambulance job!

[Movin' on up!]

I am looking to move up from my current job into an Air Ambulance job. I have 2350 TT and 170 ME. I want to find an SIC position with good upward mobility. Prefer the Northwest area, specifically Spokane WA but will go anywhere in the West. Anybody know any operators looking for pilots? Salt Lake City is also an option since in-laws own a house in the area.

 

[Prof. ATP]

I fly Air Ambulance in the West. We do not use SICs in any of our airplanes (King Air 200 and Cessna 414), and I'm not aware of anyone who does. Your times are a little low for PIC; I think our insurance requires 750 ME for the 414, and I believe that Intermountain Health Care in SLC requires 4000 TT for their KingAirs. A year of flying freight might help a lot!

Good luck.

 

[340drvr]

Check out Southwest Air Ambulance. Sorry, I don't have the link handy. They were looking to fill a spot in Carlsbad,NM this fall, and now another ad for the same gig popped up last week.
They have 414's, that's all I know. Good luck.

 

[moving2vegas]

SWAA

Southwest air ambulance has mins of 2000TT, 500 multi, and an ATP. Every air ambulance operator I know or position I've heard of requires AT LEAST 500 multi and an ATP, competitive times usually closer to 1000+ multi. These are mins and ambulance ops tend to have tons of qualified apps on the desk. Air ambulance work usually has good pay, time off, home every night, solid equipment, quality of life. Leading to .....????if you guessed low turn-over give yourself a gold star. Here's a link to SWAA. Best of luck.

http://www.southwestairambulance.com/

340drvr: when "this fall" are they looking to fill another position? That may work out very good for me.

BTW. I too have yet so see an air ambulance operation that has an SIC program, but I'm blind and can barely see.

 

[340drvr]

Southwest Air Ambulance had a job post sometime around early November for the Carlsbad spot, and now on www.atlasaviation.com they've refreshed that post on 1/28, so perhaps they're still looking. That's all I know about it.
One thing to bear in mind with lifeflight ops in small towns, you don't log much time, some less than 200 hrs/yr. That's a lot of thumb-up-the-*** on call time.
CJ Systems in Pittsburgh used to hire low-time SIC's for their fixed-wing stations, not a bad place to get a foot in the air-stair.
Good luck to all.

 

[Movin' on up!]

Looking for Air Ambulance job

Thanks to all for the replies. I will check out the sites posted. Anybody have any info on Native Air Ambulance? I know many outfits don't require SICs but I thought the trend was to have 2 people on board due to the weather conditions usually found in the west. It seems like Native has mostly turbine singles with 2 crews. I am willing to to fly cargo to build time, however I have found it very hard to get a twin cargo job in Northern California and those jobs in other western states that are available usually don't give me the time of day because I live in another state. ANyway, any suggestions?

 

[IP076]

Dude,

Check Ameriflight, I think I saw they were hiring, you may have to spend some time in the Lance though. If you have some turbine experience, you can check with Empire Air flying a Caravan. Or, I think they hire FOs for the F27s at lower times.

 

[Eldorado]

Hey-

send me a pm and i will get you some informtion on a good company that uses SIC'S for air ambulance!

 

[Movin' on up!]

Looking for Air Ambulance job

Again thanks for the replies. By the way, since I am new to this...so in regards to eldorado, what is a pm? About Amflight, I have had my resume in with them for a while and nothing yet. I had talked to the CP in Oakland and he had said he would look up my resume and call me back in a few days. A week later, I found out that he had unexpectedly passed away a few days after I last talked to him. No luck with the replacement CP. I will try bugging Empire Air a bit since I sent a resume to them a few weeks ago.

 

[moving2vegas]

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