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[F16fixer]

What is your opinion on this situation.
Your a low time instructor that also flys right seat in a King Air 200. The company is going to be trading off the 200 for a King Air 350. A type rating is required for the 350 and they don't want to spend the money on typing you also! Would you stick around for a year and fly right seat and not be able to log a single hour of time or move on? The salary is $24,000 AND $30 a day per-diem. No schedule you just fly when ever they need you. Usually 3-4 times a week and some weekends. Mostly overnights. If you get sick you have to pay for a replacement out of your salary and there is no vacation days or sick days. Your vacation days are the days your not working! The chief pilot is giving you a hard time about wanting to quit and doesn't like the idea. Can't figure out why you would want to give a gig like this up. The people you fly are very friendly and it is a good company in all other aspects.

Thanks for your opinions and trash talk away!

 

[EatSleepFly]

Sounds to me like you're getting bent.

I'd re-evaluate your definition of "a good company," if I were you.

Just my $.02.

 

[Metro752]

You could be a flight attendant and make the same pay. Might as well, more chicks.

 

[FlyingSig]

If you get sick you have to pay for a replacement out of your salary and there is no vacation days or sick days.

And this is a hard decision?

 

[TurboS7]

More money than working for Mikkey D'szzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

[flyifrvfr]

Tell them to type you or you will quit. The job sucks anyway so what do you have to lose if they say no.

 

[shamrock]

So you're saying right seat time in a 200 is loggable, but in the 350 it's not? Are you logging PIC in the 200? A type rating is only required for the PIC, so why would that affect you in the right seat of the 350?

I'm just a little confused. Does the 350 require 2 pilots? Unless it does, it seems to me that SIC time in the 200 or the 350 would be equally useful (useless?) in the long run. There's no need for a type rating either way.

 

[Swass]

I'd blow that joint.

 

[F16fixer]

I do get to fly the 200 quite a bit from the right seat. Under the sole-manipulator rules I log PIC when I fly. I just don't think a person can do that legally in the 350 because it requires a type. Maybe I'm wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
Hey guys, thanks for all the comments. I wasn't sure if anyone else had ever dealt with the (pay for your replacement issue before.)

So you're saying right seat time in a 200 is loggable, but in the 350 it's not? Are you logging PIC in the 200? A type rating is only required for the PIC, so why would that affect you in the right seat of the 350?

I'm just a little confused. Does the 350 require 2 pilots? Unless it does, it seems to me that SIC time in the 200 or the 350 would be equally useful (useless?) in the long run. There's no need for a type rating either way.

 

[Bandit60]

The company could type the pilot with the restriction that he needs an sic. I know that is one of the possibilities. If that happens then there is a need for a required sic.