t207

Bottom line the son of the original owner is an a** hole just like his dad and as long as you are a yes person that kisses his 100% of the time you will do fine. AMRG is not a company to work for at least not as a pilot.

shadow11

Can someone explain the different schedules pilots fly and what an average month would look like. Thanks

Offwidth

Definitely a 135 operator in every aspect.

I was shocked at the non or negative training from Flightsafety in Wichita. It was the worst training I have ever seen.

The AMRG IOE guy belittled me every chance he could, which was kinda funny... But not that funny...
He has now advanced to a Chief spot of some sort in ANC, which might tell you something about the culture of this outfit.

I was given 35 minutes notice for my 6 month checkride.

MX is questionable, and pretty soon more of these planes will end up in the mountains. The MX guys will try to get you to fly with broken equipment, in the mountains, in the winter. I sincerely hope that the Feds start looking closer.

On a positive note, the medics I flew with out of my little town were top notch, and very good at their trade.

Current CP in Utah is a stand up guy, and will back you up with any issues. I refuse to vouch for anybody else...

Pay was mostly on time. No vacation, no retirement, health care was a funny racket...

Glad to be moving on. Good luck out there!

lear 31 pilot

Could not have said it better myself!!

chongololo

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the iconoclast

All true...but there's more....

This company is riddled with mormon nepotism, greed and abject incompetence on countless levels.

They just canned a senior VP that was perhaps one of the most clueless in their odd cabal. She was perhaps the best example of one the most uneducated, miserably inept managers ever to hold such a position at a EMS operation the size of AMRG.

They also quietly pushed out an almost equally incompetent Director of Ops. This guy was an idiot who's claim to significance was an online BA degree from Embry Riddle. This poor stooge couldn't find his way through a typical 135 ops set of op specs to save his life. Even his POI regarded him as a moron. A total zero.

These people let their aircraft assets remain grounded for extended periods of time while the owner haggles over pennies with vendors. Stumbling over countless thousands of $$$ trying to save chump change is their accounting model.

On the medical side, their accounting rapes their customer base in overbilling.

This company is a scam run by soul-less sociopaths at the top level hiding behind a weird hypocritical cult-facade that is mormonism and guiltless greed.

It's simply a matter of time before this den of thieves implode.

Remember, this is no longer 2008 economy. There are far better places to work for.

These people are evil.

Stay away.

kingairfun

Heard the DO might be on his way it.. They finally did it.. Interesting.

He was by far the most arrogant person I'd ever met. And for no reason, because he hadn't done $hit in aviation.

I agree the people running the pilots side didn't have much of a clue. Most had no real world aviation experience, while others there had loads more. But for some reason the DO and CP's wouldn't tap into that knowledge and experience. It was a culture of " if we didn't think of it, it wasn't a viable option".

the iconoclast

The last DO was attempting to be a "Valerie Jarrett" to the owner with minor success.

The hands-on knowledge of the F.A.R.'s, and overall management experience, that would be reasonably expected of the position of Director of Operations, for a typical EMS 135 operation the size of AMRG totally escaped this guy. In some respects I felt sorry for him.

But, after observing his relatively consistent sociopathic behavior, it was clear that it would simply be a matter of time before he was outed, once it was clear to the cabal he could not satisfy their degree of expectations of "getting something for nothing" from employees and vendors.

He was forced to relocate to another state for employment.

Forensic observations of the company's operations as a whole reveal too many things that don't add up. In some respects it is not a surprise based on the regions socio-political-economic history.

Latent corruption on a very high level is suspect. It is likely to continue unless politics shift impetus to reveal this situations impropriety.

The way this company does business would not work in many other parts of the country.

NorthRoader907

If you are considering going to work for Guardian / AMRG, give me a call at 907-244-7338. I will give you the rundown on their training contracts, and the hardball tactics employed by this aggressive, litigious organization. Also, I will put you in touch with currently employed pilots who will give you an insider's no-**** assessment of the current status of Guardian Flight, AK.

12,000 hour Alaska ATP, AMEL, ASES, A&P

JohnBurke

It really is the same company. While others earlier in this thread were quick to try to discredit my comments, a year ago, it seems that nothing has changed, as a number of other posters have clearly demonstrated.

Yes, they were operating with spars cracked completely through in three places, landing gear so loose it could be moved around by hand while locked down and on jacks, missing gear doors, no nurse or even defibrilator with heart patients on board, and suicide patients placed in the passenger seat next to the pilot. Same personnel, same family that has been heard to tell a pilot "I don't care if you return or make it, I just need to show you having launched for dispatch reliability." Same owner that once told a pilot "Consider this your education. By all rights I shouldn't be paying you. You should be paying me."

If someone wants to go work for an operation like that, and people like that, by all means, cut your own throat and throw your hat in the ring. Never look back and say you weren't warned.

If you defend an outfit like that or deny it, you're a bald faced liar. There's no other way to put it.