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... Learjet... 24/7... sounds like air ambulance to me. I used to work for B & C Flight Management and I was paid $36K to start (two years ago) as SIC. I quit because the aircraft were never worked on, engine logs falsified (for hot section due), company insisted on busting flight/duty time regs and a mulititude of other infractions expected of the flight crew; the FAA shut them down for, among other things, as I heard it, having their own FAA stamp to falsify their own documents. Aircraft impounded and auctioned off. Good ridence!! This guy was one of the worse.
Then you hve a company called, American Support Group, based in the Netherlands that claims that they operate Lear and Hawker aircraft under Part 135 (foreign ownership of a US certificate?) and they guarantee you a job in the right seat of a jet aircraft, including appropriate visas, for a pricely sum. Jobs that should be going to hard working American pilots who have EARNED their way into a turbojet seat - not buy it.
BTW, that $36K per year job went to a French pilot for $25K no sooner than the door shut behind me. Those of you who scramble to take a job in an antique aircraft with no paid training for type, RVSM, Internation Proceedures etc... are hurting the business of flying. If no one took these slave wages, then the bottomfeeders will have to raise the standard.
Now I fly G200 for a corporation that takes care of their pilots, pay for training and treats us with respect. But I am still paying my dues the old fashioned way. Thru hard work!!
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