Pensacola, Mobile?

[Edmo]

Anyone know of any charter or corporate departments looking for people in the Pensacola/Mobile area?

Thanks,
Edmo

 

[ilkwamh2]

My friend worked at a charter place in Mobile flying Citations, but he didn't recommend going there. The pay is so ********************ty, it was around $13k - $15k a year. He told me the boss knows that people only use the company for 1 year to build jet time and they leave, so in return he uses the pilots by paying them ********************ty wages.

Pensacola Aviation has a charter department, but you need to be an instructor there for a year or two before they let you fly any charters. And even then the charters are pretty sporatic, and no one is really a full time charter pilot there.

I think Southern Company has a lear 45 or lear 60 based out of PNS, and the only way to get in there is if you know people.

 

[TigerDriver]

I think Southern Company has a lear 45 or lear 60 based out of PNS, and the only way to get in there is if you know people

its a 45 and yes, you have got to know the right people.

 

[Edmo]

Would you happen to be the "right person"?

 

[TigerDriver]

unfortunately no

 

[junkjockey]

Try Paragon...they need a local in Mobile. 135 night check run. 7pm dep. and get home round 2am in a Saratoga. Not a bad gig.

 

[McNugget]

What about that air ambulance company in PNS?

 

[junkjockey]

None that I know of...then again, I don't know much

 

[bertengineer]

Would you happen to be the "right person"?

call milton aviation in Milton at AMC. THere used to be a 135 operation there...charter aviation run by a guy named ED! HE had some saratogas that did night runs to mobile and New Orleans. Not sure about now!

850 623-4151 ask for charter aviation!

 

[junkjockey]

Ed lost his ticket a few years back. MX issues. His 135 ticket is for sale if anybody is interested.

 

[bertengineer]

Sorry to hear about that. He is a great guy. I enjoyed talking to him every morning while I was waiting for the first victim to show up.

 

[CapnVegetto]

There ain't jack squat in the MOB, PNS area. There is the afore mentioned charter company, (who have since raised their $hitty pay to slightly less $hitty but still $hitty) and a few Kingairs and Citations but there generally isn't anything in the area worth having. If you're looking for a good corporate job, move.

 

[1flier]

Cargo haulers are there

Well I used to fly for FLX out of Mobile, alot of turnover on that run, I was there 5 months and my successors averaged 2 months a piece. Not becasue of the run, its a day run, 13-14 hour duty day 7+ hours sitting and 5 hours flying, but its a Cessna 210. About 33K avg. Paragon is always looking they cant keep pilots there from what I saw, believe they were around 24-26K starting in Saratogas. Not much in the form of charters except the previously mentioned job most of us cant afford to work for at 19K a year flying Citations. Airnet is someone to look at, pilots based in Birmingham, AL, I know not quite Mobile or PNS, but on the bright side you dont have to evac for hurricanes there usually and they were hitting 30+K. Flamigno air flies a Cherokee Six into PNS I believe out of Tampa or may have one based there now, mile high flights and charters, website flamingoair.net I believe. Hope this helps you out.