Where to go from here?

[earl]

Quick question:

Given my experience level what would be a good job change. Currently employed by a part 91 corporate outfit flying a be20.

3700 fixed wing pic

570 multi...200 of it be20/g pic

1000 turbine helicopter 600 of it pic

Thought about the regional thing and can't take the pay cut and really do not want the schedule and dealing with commuting.

Thanks

Earl

 

[psysicx]

Find an area that you would like to live and start making connections.Also how did you get helo time,where you prior mil?

 

[PseudoName]

Thought about the regional thing and can't take the pay cut and really do not want the schedule and dealing with commuting.

Quick Question:

If you can't take a pay cut to fly for a regional, then you must be making decent money flying a B200. How is your QOL at the Part 91 gig? Overnights, pop-ups, yearly hours, benefits??

I fly big jets on long trips, maybe you want to trade jobs. My average is 25 days of flying with 18-20 overnights per month. I now think back to my King Air days and realize I had it pretty good! Bigger is not always better.

 

[Malcolm]

Bigger is not always better.

Thats not what Lassie said.....

 

[wingnutt]

im with pseudo. if i can make about 70 grand, work 10-ish days a month and come home every night...i aint going no-where, even if i am flying "just" a king-air, all a jet does is take me farther away from my family

 

[500and2]

Dream Job

-Amen to that broseph....... can't put a price on family time.

Might want to wait until the industry settles down a bit before jumping ship. See which companies recover.

grass is always greener.

cheers,

Dutch Cod Wad Hauler

 

[earl]

I never said I was flying "just" a king air. I am completely happy where I am at, I was just wondering if my time makes me competitive in the world of corporate flying. Just so you know:

$63,600 per year
working 18 to 22 days per month, flying 400 hrs per year
9 days of call per month
maybe 2 overnites per month
Sick leave, vacation pay, 12 paid holidays per year

Not a bad gig.

Earl

 

[pilotyip]

Watch where you go

Sounds like a great job, if you change jobs, unless you are being hired by Fed Ex or SWA, it will take you five years to find out if you made a good move. We have had pilots leave us for great Corp gigs. Like Ford Motor Company only to find out 9 months later they are down sizing the corporate flight dept. Not laying you off, but eliminating the positions. No recall, no nothing. Suddenly DC-9 Capt. in the on-demand business at $80K looks pretty good.

 

[Dep676]

I never said I was flying "just" a king air. I am completely happy where I am at, I was just wondering if my time makes me competitive in the world of corporate flying. Just so you know:

$63,600 per year
working 18 to 22 days per month, flying 400 hrs per year
9 days of call per month
maybe 2 overnites per month
Sick leave, vacation pay, 12 paid holidays per year

Not a bad gig.

Earl

Let me know when you leave and give me the name of the company.

 

[FracCapt]

Quick question:

Given my experience level what would be a good job change. Currently employed by a part 91 corporate outfit flying a be20.

Try to build the RW time some more, then ditch this fixed wing stuff and find a nice local EMS helo job. Home every night, week on week off usually, 12 hour duty shifts.

 

[wingnutt]

I never said I was flying "just" a king air.

oh i wasnt referring to your job, i was telling you what mine is and the razzing i take when the local jet jockeys hear that i fly "just" a king air...until i pass along the details, that is

 

[pilotyip]

Jets are for kids, anyone can fly a jet. A King Air has more knobs, levers, gauges, than any jet I ever flew. Military C-12 guys coast through our DA-20 Falcon initial Training.

 

[Dep676]

Jets are for kids, anyone can fly a jet. A King Air has more knobs, levers, gauges, than any jet I ever flew. Military C-12 guys coast through our DA-20 Falcon initial Training.

Well when you go from a C-12 to a dinosaur.

 

[pilotyip]

Well when you go from a C-12 to a dinosaur.
Yea but you actually get to fly Jurassic jets, as opposed to programming them and watching. The C-47 is more fun to fly than any King Air, Falcon or DC-9 because nothing happens in that airplane unless you the pilot direct it. It is really cool flying cause you are the man. It is a bonding thing with Ernie Gann, the "Faith is the Hunter" guy

 

[ATRCAPT]

You said it pilotyip! Flying the ATR is nice, but there was someting cool about sleddin' around in an F27. I could almost feel Ernie Gann holding a match in front of me saying, "anyone can do the job when things go right, but in this game we play for keeps".

 

[Capt1124]

Earl-

That sounds like an excellent job, given your qualifications. You'd take a huge pay cut to go to a jet SIC.

I would stick with that job and get more turbine PIC. If you've got hard days off and can weasel some right seat jet time, that would help a lot.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Well when you go from a C-12 to a dinosaur.

You obviously have never flown a DA-20. It is way more of an airplane than any of that stuff raytheon bought and put their name on. There is a reason it is still out there flying like crazy....

 

[Flyingdutchman]

I fly a BE-200 part-time single pilot and love it!

Jets are for kids!!! [/flame]

 

[pilotyip]

Tommy, you are taking yourself too seriously, the DA-20 is a real pu$$y cat. I have been instructing in it for 5 years. It is a great jet trainer for first time jet pilots, it does give you the skills to go on to bigger airplanes. That is why Charles Lindbergh recommended it to Pam Am back in the early 60's

 

[DC3Flyer]

Pilotyip

Sounds like a great job, if you change jobs, unless you are being hired by Fed Ex or SWA, it will take you five years to find out if you made a good move. We have had pilots leave us for great Corp gigs. Like Ford Motor Company only to find out 9 months later they are down sizing the corporate flight dept. Not laying you off, but eliminating the positions. No recall, no nothing. Suddenly DC-9 Capt. in the on-demand business at $80K looks pretty good.

You haven't talked to the pilot who left for Ford in the example above lately have you???? I'll take a corporate job any day over on-demand. See ya.