Martinaire Q's

[PA-44Typed]

Does anyone have some up-to-date into on them? What are the competitive times to get an interview? Pay? And QOL.

Thanks

 

[PA-44Typed]

anyone?

 

[LJDRVR]

Not real current info, I last climbed down the ladder of a Martinaire Caravan 7 years ago.

Great job. Fun airplane out there in the weather all by yourself. 170 KIAS to the MM and then you grab the "stop" lever and still touchdown in the first 1K of pavement. Learned more about aviation in the first three months of line flying than I had in the previous 14 years of mosly VFR flying. MX was good, never had a worry about the airplane, which in the 135 world is a rare thing. Some of the routes are better than others. (The most fun was TRI-TYS-CVG-TYS-TRI for DHL. Four hours of dodging thunderstorms a night in the spring and summer. Best route for slacking was ADS-DFW-TYR-ADS between 0430 and 0900 4 days a week. Salaried, so you still made the same amount as the folks flying 100 hours a month. Best postion in the company is floater pilot. (Live in Dallas and fly a bit of everything, with some weeks off. Tends to go senior)

No idea about the pay or management these days, when I was there it was run by Mitch Acker. (C Edward's son for those of you with Braniff, Pan Am or Air Florida history.)

 

[wingnutt]

martinaire is growing, they are buyin out the other van operators, and have been in negotiations with just about every operator in the country. at the rate they are going, they will have more vans than baron here shortly.

mitch is still there, pay hasnt changed, and it suits him just fine. hed rather pay a new guy 22K a year than pay a senior guy into the 30's.

7 years ago? then maybe you know the chief pilot...the same guy who had the mid-air collision and lost a 3 foot chunk of the wing, and still landed the thing.

dallas is no longer senior. you are either there because they want to keep an eye on you, or you have a hand in the training department.

tri was a good run until one of theirs took off without de-icing and basically got slapped back into the runway from ~400 feet AGL.

then another one of theirs got canned for landing on a truck (yes, a pickup truck) down south, last i heard it was still in appeal.

goofy pilots not withstanding, its a good place for a low time guy. great equipment, excellent mx, but they do have a training contract, and will enforce it...1 year or 3500 clams.

 

[wingnutt]

forgot one...competetive times are 135 mins. they like the low timers

 

[414Flyer]

I think one of my friends flew for them in mid 90s in texas, kept falling asleep in the caravan at night

 

[rcsimpson]

Taken from their website:
Pilot Hiring Minimum Flight Times:
1200 Hours Total Time
500 Hours Cross Country
100 Hours Night
75 Hours Instrument

So what's the story on the Dallas location? Why is it "training", non senior, and just keeping an EYE on you?