Would you do it?

[iflyjets4food]

This is a hypothetical situation that may turn into an actual one at some point in the not-so-distant future:

Company XYZ is having trouble finding a pilot for their jet. It isn't that there aren't people within the company that would fly it. The owner is just to cheap to pony up the dough for initial training at FSI. Said owner wants to hire someone who is already current in the airplane. The problem is that almost anyone who is already current in the airplane won't come work for what he wants to pay. In conversation, it came up that if they're going to pay for initial for someone anyway, they might as well send one of us who are only qualified as PICs in the piston twin to school to be an SIC on the jet. The owner wants to make whoever he sends to school sign a two-year contract to be SIC. Neither of the two would take the type and run as both have put in a decent amount of longevity with the company.

What would you do if you were one of the two offered this 'opportunity'?

 

[Windsor]

No. 2 years is a long time to be locked down with low pay and only an SIC type.

 

[iflyjets4food]

Insurance says we have to have two PIC typed guys, so the type wouldn't be SIC type. I agree however that 2 years is way too long to be stuck.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

It all depends on your situation.

Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, What might be right for you, may not be right for some. A man is born, he's a man of means. Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.

 

[Windsor]

PIC type should equal PIC pay. If you to log PIC time, than thats a plus. But 2 years racking up SIC time isnt going to advance your hireability all that much.

 

[Princedietrich]

Tell him to take that 2 year contract and shove it.

 

[leenick]

This is a hypothetical situation that may turn into an actual one at some point in the not-so-distant future:

Company XYZ is having trouble finding a pilot for their jet. It isn't that there aren't people within the company that would fly it. The owner is just to cheap to pony up the dough for initial training at FSI. Said owner wants to hire someone who is already current in the airplane. The problem is that almost anyone who is already current in the airplane won't come work for what he wants to pay. In conversation, it came up that if they're going to pay for initial for someone anyway, they might as well send one of us who are only qualified as PICs in the piston twin to school to be an SIC on the jet. The owner wants to make whoever he sends to school sign a two-year contract to be SIC. Neither of the two would take the type and run as both have put in a decent amount of longevity with the company.

What would you do if you were one of the two offered this 'opportunity'?

Tell the owner to stick it where the sun dosen't shine, and start looking for another job.
If you accept, you will just be working as a whore and making the industry more screwed up than it already is. LOW PAY, LONG HOURS, CONTRACTS---IT'S ALL BS.

 

[icefr8dawg]

Ask your lawyer, that two year contract is probably pretty thin and unenforcable.

 

[iflyjets4food]

The part of this that is difficult here is that I have worked here for going on 4 years now, and so it isn't like I'd be out of a job if I didn't do it. I think if it is offered to me, I'm just going to refuse to sign a contract. Thus far they've had 3 pilots on that jet, and none of them have actually signed a contract. The real problem is that I really don't want to stay here for much longer. I have my sights on moving in the next 3-6 months.

 

[macpilot]

Just try to negotiate it less time, if he likes you, he will probably do 1 year. Most contracts are not worth much anyway. If he dosent want to spend 20k on an employee, he definatly wont spend it on legal fees. It just depends on where you see yourself in the next few years if you should do it.