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Ram Air Freight is looking for qualified pilots for June classes.
Ram Air Freight is a growing Part 135 air courier operator that has been in business since 1982, with 12 bases scattered throughout the Southeast.
With a regular schedule of Monday through Friday assignments, the majority of the routes are day/afternoon runs instead of the back side of the clock schedule like most cargo outfits. It therefore allows you to be home every night and have a “normal” life outside of your job while gaining the invaluable experience of single pilot, multi engine, all weather operations.
There is no minimum multi engine time requirement for applying. Thanks to a 65% twin to single engine airplane ratio upgrades range between 2 weeks to 2 months after the initial checkride, depending upon the employee’s flexibility to relocate.
Training lasts a full week and incorporates in depth ground and flight training, during which Ram Air Freight provides housing. The company will also pay applicants for the week of training at the normal daily rate, provided they successfully pass the initial company checkride.

In order to qualify applicants MUST meet Part 135 IFR minimums, be actively flying and
instrument proficient, and more generally be capable of reaching checkride standards within 6 hours of flight training.


Benefits include Blue Cross Blue Shield, dental insurance, Simple IRA retirement plan jumpseat privileges.
More information is available on www.ramairfreight.com.
Send resumes to [email protected].
No phone calls.
 
Arn't they pretty much always hiring, just like all the bank check haulers?
 
They're paying for the whole week of training now? That's a nice change.
 

IF they pass their checkride. That's a big if!
 
Revolving Door

Way2Broke said:
Arn't they pretty much always hiring, just like all the bank check haulers?

Maybe they are always hiring because alot of pilots are always leaving,since no one likes to be dumped on NON-STOP!!!!!!
 
Pay at Ram Air is pretty good compared to the regional FO positions offered, and you get to be the Captian of your own ship. Every pilot should spend a year flying the line as a freightdog. It builds self-reliance, weather knowledge, compotence in all types of approaches and aircraft, and... you learn to multi-task like nobody's business. Ram Air has been good to me. I like being home every night, having weekends off, and the benefits. If you come here with your eyes wide open, what you see is what you get... nothing more and nothing less. Most pilots leave here because their plan was to move on anyway. They are finding it easy to get jobs partly because employers see the Ram Air type experience as very valuable. Ta da!
 
Does the company have a policy on using handheld GPS's? It sure would be nice to use something like a Garmin 396 with the datalink weather.
 
scoot said:
Pay at Ram Air is pretty good compared to the regional FO positions offered, and you get to be the Captian of your own ship. Every pilot should spend a year flying the line as a freightdog. It builds self-reliance, weather knowledge, compotence in all types of approaches and aircraft, and... you learn to multi-task like nobody's business. Ram Air has been good to me. I like being home every night, having weekends off, and the benefits. If you come here with your eyes wide open, what you see is what you get... nothing more and nothing less. Most pilots leave here because their plan was to move on anyway. They are finding it easy to get jobs partly because employers see the Ram Air type experience as very valuable. Ta da!

What is it? $85 a day ($425 a week). You guys get a $2000 bonus for putting up with the BS after a year. Couple routes you get 2 hours a day flight time with 8 hours of waiting time. Not exactly a good time building gig. But you are right, go in with your eyes wide open and what you see is what you get. But if you want to fly there, well you should know their safety record is not exactly the best in the business. However, most of their problems this year seem to be pilot induced.
 
Yeah, call the FSDO of the operator in question.

Incidents won't be seen on NTSB.gov, but accidents will.
 
http://135jobs.com/ Great way to get more info on a potential employer.

This site is based on FAA database of following kinds of certificate holders: Part 91 - General Aviation, mostly public use aircraft (CAP, Law Enforcement and other Federal / State agencies)
Part 121 - Airlines / Major air carriers
Part 125 - Large aircraft operators, not involved in common carriage
Part 129 - Foreign Operators
Part 133 - Helicopter external load: Logging or Firefighting
Part 135 - Charter Companies, Air Taxi, Freight Haulers, Scenic Tour operators
Part 137 - Agricultural (cropdusters)
For each certificate, you will find: Who is who in the company - President, Chief Pilot, DO, DM with their phone/fax numbers and addresses
Types of aircraft operated under the certificate
Kinds of Operations that the certificate holder is authorized to conduct (VFR/IFR, PAX/Cargo, etc)
Company's estimate of how many pilots, mechanics, flight attendants, etc. they employ
We also attempt to find from various sources: Website address
Other names the company used to operate operate under
Tail numbers of aircraft that belong to or are utilized by the company [SIZE=-1](2)[/SIZE]
Accidents investigated by NTSB, related to the company aircraft [SIZE=-1](1)(2)[/SIZE]
Incidents that might be below the NTSB 830 threshold of "accident" definition [SIZE=-1](1)(2)[/SIZE]
Violations that produced an enforcement action by FAA
Monthly utilization of aircraft
Any other pertinent information we might find about the certificate holder
 
In order to access all the information you have to have a subcription. I just checked and apparently they not taking any new subscribers for some reason.
 
Aviator said:
Does the company have a policy on using handheld GPS's? It sure would be nice to use something like a Garmin 396 with the datalink weather.

95% of their planes have either a Garmin 430 or an apollo gps. I guess you could use your own if you wanna lug it around plane to plane
 
Thanks for the reply Airmugsy. I thought that the entire fleet had Garmin GX55's. A 430 would be very nice to have flying in that kind of environment.
 
Buddy of mine that flies there told me that they have even added Garmin's terrain awereness software to a few of the 430s. My guess is that they plan on doing it to all of them. Not a bad little feature. If only they would fix the autopilots now.
 
Lear Wanna Be said:
Buddy of mine that flies there told me that they have even added Garmin's terrain awereness software to a few of the 430s. My guess is that they plan on doing it to all of them. Not a bad little feature. If only they would fix the autopilots now.
I just left there,,, didnt hear anything about that. Autopilots would be nice but like everyone said before, working there, good or bad, made me a better, confident pilot, and hand flying those things in some bad weather definatly sharpens your skills.
 
Bad Info...

Lear, your friend told you wrong. We have one new to us BE58 that may have TWAS because it had it when Ram bought it. I think that HSIs and autopilots would be a significantly higher priority, and there are no plans to do any of that. About 45 of 50 or so planes have either an Apollo GX50 or a Garmin 430, and ALL the Databases are kept current every 28 days.
 
I don't know, he is a 402 driver. Perhaps he just got to go for a ride in that Baron you are talking about and some how got the wrong impression. That doesn't happen to be the same one that ended up on it's belly at BWI a few weeks ago, does it?

Gear handle, Flap handle...it does not matter, just pick one, something will happen. LMAO
 
Lear Wanna Be said:
I don't know, he is a 402 driver. Perhaps he just got to go for a ride in that Baron you are talking about and some how got the wrong impression. That doesn't happen to be the same one that ended up on it's belly at BWI a few weeks ago, does it?

Gear handle, Flap handle...it does not matter, just pick one, something will happen. LMAO

It was ORF. Why dont you keep your mouth shut till you know what you are talking about?
 
That is what I like about you RAM guess. No matter how much management and dispatch screws with you, you still stick up for the company. Good for you guys. It is kind of refreshing to see a group of pilots stick up for their company. If you guys could get a pay raise maybe the company would not always be hiring.
 
Will RAMEX allow a jumpseater to occupy the right seat if it's empty. I sometimes need to commute out of RDU and live in CAE. I hear you guys in and out of RDU and CAE all the time.


Thanks in advance,
The Pig.
 
SonicPig said:
Will RAMEX allow a jumpseater to occupy the right seat if it's empty. I sometimes need to commute out of RDU and live in CAE. I hear you guys in and out of RDU and CAE all the time.


Thanks in advance,
The Pig.
Not usually unless they are SWA pilots, but I've never heard of a SWA guy actually jumping with us.
 
Lear Wanna Be said:
What is it? $85 a day ($425 a week). You guys get a $2000 bonus for putting up with the BS after a year. Couple routes you get 2 hours a day flight time with 8 hours of waiting time. Not exactly a good time building gig. But you are right, go in with your eyes wide open and what you see is what you get. But if you want to fly there, well you should know their safety record is not exactly the best in the business. However, most of their problems this year seem to be pilot induced.

I'm not arguing that pay is great, or that this is the type of flying for everyone. Still, it would take three years to reach Ram's pay at some regionals. Pay goes up to $100 a day second year and hints of improvements too. You can also make $$ as an instructor or doing extra runs now and then.
Yes a few runs suck, as you get more senior that can change. As far as safety goes, Ram doesn't put the work above your safety. There has been one fatality in 22 years. He was flying too low, sight-seeing during a run, and hit a TV tower. We now fly all runs IFR, which provides MEA's. Compared to other check haulers, I've found that Ram has a good safety record.
 
Not to step on any toes but what happened in KORF? I am a former Race City fella and I know that we had a guy go down the vehicle lane instead of the taxi way and dinged the wing.

Now to change. I have a lot more respect for the freight pilots. It's not for the weak of heart. Man I hated storms with a passion but it's just one of those things you have to deal with. Due to my stupidity, although I don't always see it that way, my career with P.E. was short. Looking back I would do it again in a heartbeat. It's an easy way to build hours if you get a good run. I've been around RamAir for about eight years but it's all been from a ramp perspective. Anyways. That's my 2 cents
 
headinclouds said:
Not to step on any toes but what happened in KORF? I am a former Race City fella and I know that we had a guy go down the vehicle lane instead of the taxi way and dinged the wing.

I had heard BWI, but if it was ORF, then that is just fine. Makes more since anyway, the Barons don't get too far from RDU very often. Well, if you believe second hand stories from somebody in the know, a RAM BE-58 landed (at ORF) was told to exit the next taxiway and call ground. As the Baron exited the runway the gear collapsed. Now I don't know why, but sounds like it could have been the old confusing the flaps with the gear handle trick. However, that is purely speculation. RAM guys are not aloud to comment on negative stuff on a public forum, so you might not get any confirmation about this.
 

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