Which Company is better USA Jet or Ameristar

[Wiggums]

Or get hired at Amersitar below their published mins and upgrade a year.

Go to USA Jet is you want to make a carrer out of flying greasy Falcons. Choose Ameristar is you want to put your three years in and move on.

Three year at Amersitar get you two types and 1000 Turbine PIC. Three years at your average regional you will still be in the right seat.

 

[pilotyip]

Wiggums also just a side note 75% of our career pilots, guys who are in the upper half of the seniority list, over 10 yrs average time with company, bid the scheduled passenger flights in our non-greasy DC-9's. Whatever always keep the greasy side down.

 

[federico]

Pilot Yip is Usa Jet hiring.

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Pilot Yip is Usa Jet hiring.

Don't know, but there was this 5 days ago.

http://www.jsfirm.com/companydetail.asp?jobid=9623

 

[pilotyip]

We are interviewing to maintain the level of our pool. Due to the looming pilot shortage our pool is evaporating at higher rate than than lst year.

 

[no1uknow]

You really think there will be a pilot shortage? I have heard that but why?

 

[pilotyip]

Never be a pilot shortage but there is a growing world wide experience shortage.

 

[goastar]

Yikes!!

JACKA$$!!!!! Is this the kind of $hit they are teaching you these days? Your high and mighty because you overspent on your education? I think you'd fit right in over at Grand Aire/Tri-Coastal, give them a call. Its 1-800-SUC-KASS.

 

[The Gimp]

The right seat in the DC-9 at USAJ is a career one. 5 yrs to be a 9 Captain if not more.

Falcon Capt, who knows, but there are 2 sides to USAJ. If your a 9 pilot you get better equipment, more days off, better show times and better load pay.

Why doesnt the entire pilot group get 12 days off like the 9 pilots?

 

[pilotyip]

DA-20 days off.

The DA-20 is a low yield airplane. Right now the DA-10 gets 11 days off per month. To support a 10% increase in DA-20 crews to do the same amount of flying would reduce thin yields even further. 13 days off per month on the DC-9 can normally be bid after one year with the company. Many pilots elect to stay in the DC-9 to get more days off instead of coming back to the DA-20 Cpat's seat and make $15,000 a year more. It is the pilots choice. BTW DC-9 Capt is running about 6.5 years right now, DC-9 Captains don't go anywhere.

 

[Bluto]

How are the schedules at USA Jet? Are the trips mostly out and back or are you generally gone for long stretches? How about on the 9?

 

[pilotyip]

Gone

Bluto, Mostly you fly to the boarder, spend the night and fly back the next day. This might make up about 20% of our trips. But there is no common thread to USA Jet cargo trips on either airplane, they just come and go and often change in the middle. The DC-9 pax runs are scheduled 6 months in advance, you go out for five nights and you are home for five nights 90% of the time. BTW the average pilot is gone from YIP 132 hours per month, based upon pre-deim paid to those who do not sell days. For those who sell days they average about $1,000 a addtional income per month for every additonal 24 hours away from YIP per month. If that makes any sense.

 

[...Lost]

BTW the average pilot is gone from YIP 132 hours per month, based upon pre-deim paid to those who do not sell days. For those who sell days they average about $1,000 a addtional income per month for every additonal 24 hours away from YIP per month. If that makes any sense.

Is that right? Your pilots are only gone an average of (132 hr/24 hr=) 5.5 days a month? That just doesn't seem to coincide with what I have heard about your schedules in the past.

If that's true, then a DC-9 FO could fly 8hrs a day for 6 days (48hrs if even possible), and collect his min. guarantee of 65 hrs for the month.

Either this is a fantastic deal, or I am missing something. Unfortunately your only base is YIP, and that's out of the question for me...

 

[pilotyip]

Just the facts mam

Lost, simply the facts, that all it is is the facts mam. I took total pre-deim paid to pilots who did not sell days during the last year and divided by $1.58 came up with hours paid divided by the number of pilots who did not sell days and it equals the number of hours per year of pre-diem earned per pilot divided by 12 comes out to 132 hours per month average. Just the facts mam, just the facts. BTW we don't fly much in the slow season, but in the busy month breaking guarentee is common thing

 

[...Lost]

Thanks YIP.

I think I finally wrapped my mind around the concept of it being a straight "average". So more than likely, summertime your gone 20+ days a month working your tail off, and then come winter your sitting around not working much if at all.

The numbers just kinda jumped out at me, and I couldn't see past the average 6 days of work a month.

Still doesn't sound too bad, if you can get past the whole living in SE Michigan part...