Suggestions from the experienced pilots

[bobbysamd]

Some Florida ideas

I'd like to stay in Florida or Georgia, but we are pretty open to moving.

Hop in your car, get on the Turnpike and drive in a resume to FlightSafety Academy in Vero. Yeah, I know they have no openings and primarily hire from within. But, all it takes is a commuter or two to start hiring and pick up its instructors. The pool will dry up and the place will need instructors. I was hired from the outside there eleven years ago.

Then, drive down U.S. 1 to Ft. Pierce and hand-carry a resume to Pan Am. I really don't know much about the place. I've heard negative and positive. It is still a place to apply.

Then, drive up I-95 to Daytona to ERAU. ERAU in Daytona is running ads for instructors. Riddle is not the perfect place at which to work, but it certainly is far from the worst. Ask for an app.

Once again, good luck with your job search.

 

[larry]

Well that was kind of my plan. I've been to ATA in Orlando and I can't say I was terribly impressed. Do you think its worth a drive to Vero to hand the resume in person or will mail suffice? I mailed one to Pan AM and I never even got a rejection letter!

Anybody participated in the airnet SIC program. Yes I did a search, yes I know there 1000 posts on airnet. No I did not see much from someone in the program that details how much pic multi time they got per month. The pay is horrible, but its at least some pay, its all multi time, and after a year or two I figure I'd have a sporting chance at a regional or fractional.

 

[bobbysamd]

Hand-delivery of materials

I think it is worth it anytime you can hand-deliver something, even if you can't get past the receptionist. Do it enough times, politely, and you will be remembered. Maybe you can ask demurely if you might have a minute with the Chief Pilot. The worst you can be told is "no." So, once more, you are no worse off than you were before.

Maybe you might have better luck with Pan Am by hand-delivery. These places gets tons of mail, which probably gets tossed by the wayside. Hand-delivery might find its way to the Chief Instructor's desk sooner.

Some people suggest that when you hand-deliver materials that you should dress as if you were attending an interview and absolutely no worse than a good shirt and slacks. I think there's a great deal of merit in that suggestion. You never know if you might find yourself sitting in the hotseat across the desk from the hiring authority. Better to be prepared than not.

Once more, best of luck with your efforts.

 

[darien]

ditto from above

Part of my job is sales and i've never had a positive feeling about mailing something , but i've had feelingsof elation just dropping paperwork into the hands of the recipient At least they will know you really exist and they may rember you It's not everyday that they get someone from a far that drops off a resume Tip mention the distance you've traveled while trying to get past the secretary great luck to ya

 

[jaybird]

AirNet SIC

I was an SIC. The pay really isn't that bad. I know I made more as an SIC then some first year regional FO's. I talked with another former SIC who said he made more than some of our prop captains. You can live almost anywhere (aircraft and load permitting), and it was the best experience I could've ever dreamed of.

I usually switched legs with the captains (unless I got a lazy one and they had me fly the whole thing while they slept ). By the time your year is up you should have at least 800-1,000 multi-pic, unless you get a C208. So I don't worry about the PIC thing too much. I did log the legs I did as PIC though. You also get to ferry planes which is no doubt PIC.

 

[BigFlyr]

May the Force be with you!

 

[wingnutt]

i would venture to say that the days of getting on at airnet with 350tt are gone for the moment...unless you have connections. before 9-11 even, most of the guys getting in there were 900+.

airnet is good, but dont hang all your hopes there. according to bob (before he left) there wont be another ground school until january. their pool is full, although rumor is that quite a few in the pool are bailing, getting jobs elsewhere...so who knows.

another option in Ft. Pierce is Aviator...all they have is Duchess, so its all twin time, but hes not real keen on picking up out of the system. just ask all the Pan Am guys that are begging for twin time from him.

 

[TurboS7]

I have done a lot of hiring in my day. I can tell you right now that sending a resume via the mail is a waste of time, they wind up in the circular file. All the guys I hired walked in their resume, maybe we were too busy to interview at the time but when the time came you can guess which face and phone number were the first things that we thought off.

 

[larry]

larry

Thansk for the information guys. I've got about 600tt 200 dual and my MEI checkride is on saturday. I figure at the end of the month I'll apply to airnet for the SIC as it seem like it would be a short hop to 1200TT I'd really can't move until Janruary anyway so if I got a class for sometime after that it would work fine for me. I noticed at one point they had an 800 pilot hiring info hotline. I didn't see it on the website. is it still up? Anybody have then number?

800 to 1000 multi PIC seems like more than I'd get instructing anyway!

 

[Timebuilder]

The number:

1-877-AIRNET 6