Toilet Propose
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- Joined
- Mar 3, 2002
- Posts
- 12
Avbug,
Your wisdom is well received and I’m trying my best to persuade another operator they just won’t be able to carry on unless they hire me.
One thing I can say about my current employer is that he will fix stuff, that’s where I was taking the Navajo yesterday when I almost ended up as a hood ornament for a Westwind.
The only real problem is his opinion of running a freight and charter service. He puts his clean, newer birds on the line for charter and we get the old crows for boxhauling. He would rather have 20 old buckets that require nightly maintance than 10 newer birds that can go a week or more without a squawk.
The charter birds log fewer hours and are priority for maintance on the weekends whereas the freighters are pushed to the limits, rode hard and put up wet on a nightly basis.
But in all, I can’t complain I guess.
I am logging good multi time and my paychecks haven’t bounced. We sporadically find ourselves overnighting on charters in some nice places. I’ve been to the Bahamas twice already this year for a Doctor and his family who charter us to flying him down to his boat in Treasure Cay and this week I’ve got a C-310 trip out west that’ll net me about 10 hrs total round trip flying time.
I’ve been told by more than one jet jockey that some day when I’m old and grumpy with thousands of hours of kerosene stove time that I’ll look back and cherish these times of real flying. But for now I’ll consider any flying I do real flying regardless of what goes in and what comes out of the engines.
James
Your wisdom is well received and I’m trying my best to persuade another operator they just won’t be able to carry on unless they hire me.
One thing I can say about my current employer is that he will fix stuff, that’s where I was taking the Navajo yesterday when I almost ended up as a hood ornament for a Westwind.
The only real problem is his opinion of running a freight and charter service. He puts his clean, newer birds on the line for charter and we get the old crows for boxhauling. He would rather have 20 old buckets that require nightly maintance than 10 newer birds that can go a week or more without a squawk.
The charter birds log fewer hours and are priority for maintance on the weekends whereas the freighters are pushed to the limits, rode hard and put up wet on a nightly basis.
But in all, I can’t complain I guess.
I am logging good multi time and my paychecks haven’t bounced. We sporadically find ourselves overnighting on charters in some nice places. I’ve been to the Bahamas twice already this year for a Doctor and his family who charter us to flying him down to his boat in Treasure Cay and this week I’ve got a C-310 trip out west that’ll net me about 10 hrs total round trip flying time.
I’ve been told by more than one jet jockey that some day when I’m old and grumpy with thousands of hours of kerosene stove time that I’ll look back and cherish these times of real flying. But for now I’ll consider any flying I do real flying regardless of what goes in and what comes out of the engines.
James