Slats

Never heard of Seaport. Why fly single engine T-prop unless you don't have a multi or enough time in a multi to go somewhere else?

cjgreen91

Because dont have enough time to go somewhere else haha.

KSCessnaDriver

Maybe it offers a better quality of life than schleping a B1900 out of Farmington?

Slats

Anything beats Great Lakes, agreed. But if you have the time, why no SkWest, ExpressJet, Compass, Horizon ect?

KSCessnaDriver

Great Lakes beats my current job.

Natca

Short on seaport:
Good time builder for people who dont have a cfi or sub 1000 hours

Why i hated it:
No more pc12s
11 leg days
15min turns
No toilet on aircraft
No food breaks
No per diem
1 year training contract for 5k that renews at upgrade
Memphis hiring only
Mostly non commutable schedules. The senior people make lines for themselves.
Good maint personnel but very short staffed.
One cappy just got his cert revoked for flying a broke airplane mtx said was ok
Rob mckinney never tells it as it is (whats new in the airline world)
No hotels for overnights (apartments of which you need to brig your own pillows and blankets)
Fo pay sucks
No pay scale
No work rules
Junior assigned via text message
120 hour min rest months the norm in memphis
Caravan a models (i hated them)
No days off guaranteed (i averaged 4 a month off)
Flight training sucked, fly with a 20 year old cappy who is training you to collect a higher pay check and cant teach worth a darn and then fly a check ride with a management pilot. Bare min training.
No employee dedicated parking. If they get busy typlically over the holidays they run out of parking for customers and employees. We had to park at a pay to park lot once.
No id90
You drive yourself in the crew car to overnight
apartment
Throw you own bags


Good things:
Lots of time in the air
Good ground school
Cass (lacks ual and aal and swa)
Memphis base (dont get car jacked on your drive in) haha
Quick upgrade
They do have travel bennies for all your family
You get to fly in a big airport (for you shinny jet folks)
Its an airline??
Captain pay is ok

IrishFlyer757

Questions below:

Slats

The 4 days off part is easy.... You need 24hrs consecutive rest. That would be one day off a week by 4 weeks, voila 4days off... Granted you don't exceed 120hrs in a month and 35hrs in 7days.

travelnate

btw the Alaska flying is MUCH different from this... but its also not commutable.. I don't know any pilot here (in Juneau) that commutes. Most guys go home for a week or two at a time, and the year-round guys typically take a month off (Dec - Mar period).

Natca

Ok first, yes the Alaska op was totally different! Captains on the pc12 bailed outta Mem to go to jun.... That said management fought that person greatly to keep him in Mem...they can't keep pilots in Mem longer then 6 months.

120 hours in a month, easy, fly to 119 hours with another pilot as a dead header, swap seats at 119 and deadhead home. It was done.

Also the 4 days off
First all overnights were 8 hours block to block. In base it was always less then 24 hour. the way they get around the 24 hours, they give it but let's say your trip lands at 7pm, you will block out at 7pm the next day. That or they give you fly to Sln friday night, sit all day sat in Sln, and fly the 6am out on Sunday....basic tv, no Internet, basic food...it's the pits.

The caravan
The 208a is the straight tail, basic instruments, no ice boots.
They have a 208b or two floating around the have boots, a ice plate and garmin 430. Still it's a caravan and this is the new airplane the coast is switching to for the entire operation.