Martinaire

[AirMugsy]

Whats a typical day/week like at Martinaire? Is it mostly overnights/layovers, m-f? I looked at the other threads but theres nothing on that. Thanks

 

[S2R]

The UPS runs are usually Monday night through Saturday morning. You fly from your home base to destination then you stay the night in a hotel then fly home the next morning then you are off till the evening.

I think the DHL runs are usually Monday morning through Friday evening. Then there is Stand-by where you are on call and fill in the gaps ie excess freight, broken aircraft, vacations etc.

I worked there a couple years ago so I hope this helps.

 

[toolboX]

Do the MartinAire drivers where the standard pilot monkey suit???

 

[Ill Mitch]

Do the MartinAire drivers where the standard pilot monkey suit???

From what I have seen, no they don't.

 

[MrPink1911]

monkey suit

The ones at KSAT do, and it kinda sucks for them when they are washing the plane for the extra cash in the lapels.... but at least its extra cash....

 

[toolboX]

suit

So some runs do wear the full pilot suit and some don't?

What are the best runs, and how do they rate next to Empire, Ameriflight, all the other big dogs?

Are the Caravans in descent shape, or are they all super old?

 

[toolboX]

Anyone got the scoop on MartinAire? (A day in the life of a van driver)

 

[PC12Cowboy]

Yeah I'd like to now and what the interveiw was like I got one this week...with Naz..sounds like a decent company...
How are the vans maintained??I like the fact we can wash the for extra cash..LOL

 

[ukaviator]

The vans are maintained well, Martinaire is a certified Cessna repair
station and the vans are all they have so they know the airplane well!
Some of the planes look doggy but the money goes into where it really
counts.
All the pilots are required to wear the pilot uniform although you dont
have to wear a tie.
Pilots can earn extra cash washing their airplane as well as any extra
runs they may do that is determined as un-scheduled.
DHL runs are Monday night through Saturday morning, not sure of UPS.
Interview consists of written exam (straight out of the Instrument) a
personal interview with the CP and a sim ride set up like a twin. They
want to see a good ILS and a good NDB approach on top of your BAIF.
Training is 2 weeks which you are not paid during, however the hotel is
paid for. The training is very good and very thorough, you must sign a
$3,500 training contract, which they DO enforce, but you are only bound
by it for 1 year.
Its decent if your away from their home base (ADS), because as long as
your getting the job done you will have little or no contact with them
other than calling dispatch to check in.
Cant think of anything else, PM if you have any questions and good luck
with the interview

 

[toolboX]

Thanks UK. Sounds like a cool job.

 

[PC12Cowboy]

uk, and do you know Naz...seemed like a great guy on the phone
he's gonna be doing my interview here in SAC and flying the van ...no sim ride gonna do it for real
SWEET

 

[Str82theNumbers]

Is it SOP at Martinaire to taxi with 1400 torque and have every single light on (including strobes) when entering and parking on a well-lit cargo ramp? Or is it just one special person?

 

[Optimax200]

Is it SOP at Martinaire to taxi with 1400 torque and have every single light on (including strobes) when entering and parking on a well-lit cargo ramp? Or is it just one special person?

we have our share of idiots.

 

[ukaviator]

Personally i think taxing with any more than 1300 lbs torque is just excessive!!

Good luck on the interview Cowboy, Naz is a great guy very knowledgable and experienced, i flew with him, he's very relaxed and makes you feel comfortable in the airplane -- not one of those gods gift to aviation types!

No sim huh, thats strange, must be broken or something!

Is it SOP at Martinaire to taxi with 1400 torque and have every single light on (including strobes) when entering and parking on a well-lit cargo ramp? Or is it just one special person?

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[Nolife]

A day in the life of...

Alarm clock rings at 5am on Tuesday. Wake up, shower, climb into monkey suit (either blue or white shirt, whichever is cleaner), eat breakfast then head off to the airport for a 5:30 show time. Check in with flight following on the way to see where they're sending me today. If you fly a fixed run you already know. I flew SAT standby (the best gig in the company).

Get to the airport and go preflight the Van and if they want to use the plane supervise loading if not go directly to the FBO snooze room for more zzzz's. If I flew I'd be out and back then released by noon. If I didn't fly, released at 7:30am. Repeat this until Saturday then enjoy the weekend. I had very few overnights. If they paid what FedEx feeders pay their guys I'd still be there.

MX was great, never any pressure to fly with anything questionable although you will use the MEL. Salary stinks. And like the guy said get out of ADS as soon as possible before the DO knows your name.

You WILL be fired if you forget any freight in the airplane so always check... even if you didn't put anything in the pods still check.

All told I enjoyed my year there and would recommend this job to some one wanting to build PIC time.

 

[PC12Cowboy]

ukavaitor,
doing the interveiw and ride here in sacramento tonight...dont have to go to ADS yet...until they hire me

 

[ukaviator]

ukavaitor,
doing the interveiw and ride here in sacramento tonight...dont have to go to ADS yet...until they hire me

How did it go?

 

[PC12Cowboy]

uk..flew it tonight with Naz..nice guy...now they want me to get my butt to ADS...I'm just to broke to afford the ticket and live with no pay for two weeks

 

[ukaviator]

uk..flew it tonight with Naz..nice guy...now they want me to get my butt to ADS...I'm just to broke to afford the ticket and live with no pay for two weeks

I hear that brother! When i went to training, i couldnt afford a ticket either so ended up driving from Florida to ADS and lived on sandwiches and hotpockets!

They pay for the hotel and as i remember it brekfast was included!

You can do it pretty cheap but that doesnt pay the bills - same everywhere you go i guess :erm:

 

[IHaveAPension]

It's safer to taxi with the strobes on.

 

[PC12Cowboy]

WHAT??? I never turn on the strobes..lol

 

[PC12Cowboy]

Uk...do you get much ice on your route??the arcata run is constant

 

[propsarebest]

Uk...do you get much ice on your route??the arcata run is constant

Where does Martinaire fly the van to in norcal??

I've never seen it, although back in '96 or so, the 228's were CONSTANTLY buzzing around SMF,not flying, just taxing all over the dam place!

 

[PC12Cowboy]

Props they want me to fly to ACV from mhr and back

 

[toolboX]

Anyone have any good info on the Arcata run?

 

[propsarebest]

MHR-ACV eh??

not tooo shabby! In case u need to get back home for some reason, we fly to SMF-ACV a couple of times a day, and Martinaire is on our jumpseat list.

 

[ukaviator]

Uk...do you get much ice on your route??the arcata run is constant

I picked up a little in the last few months but nothing major - one nice thing about flying in the SE!
I see you used to fly a PC12 -- i bet that is an awesome plane to fly, how come your not flying that anymore?

 

[Hose A. Jiminez]

1000 hours of Caravan "captain" time and a 50cents might get you a coke at the FBO. Probably not though.