Evergreen is a good company, and very careful about who they hire. There are pilots out there who hire on with low experience (more so in former times)...but those who do that have generally gone the traditional route of loading, flagging, and working into a seat, have been trained by the company, and the opportunities to do that are few and far between.
I began spraying in high school when I had a fresh commercial and the same time, but my flying at that point had been mostly all tailwheel, a lot of it putting out water or chemical, almost all in mountainous terrain, and at low level, and I did a dedicated six month ag school, and still had to work into the position, plus have the ability to work on the airplanes as well as fly them, operate on and repair all the farm equipment, farm, etc. Just like most operators out there today.
The flying is the smallest part of the business.
I began spraying in high school when I had a fresh commercial and the same time, but my flying at that point had been mostly all tailwheel, a lot of it putting out water or chemical, almost all in mountainous terrain, and at low level, and I did a dedicated six month ag school, and still had to work into the position, plus have the ability to work on the airplanes as well as fly them, operate on and repair all the farm equipment, farm, etc. Just like most operators out there today.
The flying is the smallest part of the business.
