Air Choice One - Anyone have the G/B/U?
12-01-2016, 09:11 AM
#51
Contract
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Air Choice One - Anyone have the G/B/U?
Originally Posted by DiveAndDrive
They didn't offer me employment yet, GreenWater. However, when I did my interview over the phone, he said if offered the position, it would be 18 months.
Yikes. Be cautious with that contract. If you are offered employment and turns out you're flying 20 hours a month; you're stuck. I turned an offer down at AC1 for that very reason. They asked me to sign a 2 year contract.
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12-01-2016, 09:25 AM
#52
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Joined APC: May 2015
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Do you mind if I ask where you ended up going? During the phone interview, they said their pilots are currently averaging about 90 hours a month. They guarantee 60 a month, but I know that's for pay purposes. And I'm not fond of the contract by any means. But I'm 22 with 557 hours TT and a commercial ASEL. I have probably 60+ applications in, and they're the only ones who called me back. I know with my luck I'll end up getting 17 phone calls the day after I sign the contract.
12-02-2016, 09:12 AM
#53
Contract
Joined APC: Aug 2014
Position: SR22
Posts: 162
Originally Posted by DiveAndDrive
Do you mind if I ask where you ended up going? During the phone interview, they said their pilots are currently averaging about 90 hours a month. They guarantee 60 a month, but I know that's for pay purposes. And I'm not fond of the contract by any means. But I'm 22 with 557 hours TT and a commercial ASEL. I have probably 60+ applications in, and they're the only ones who called me back. I know with my luck I'll end up getting 17 phone calls the day after I sign the contract.
I'm still looking. I have 575 TT and I'm in the same boat as you. Employers say a lot of things over the phone but you never know what you'll get until you're flying the line.
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12-02-2016, 09:54 AM
#54
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Posts: 543
Originally Posted by DiveAndDrive
They didn't offer me employment yet, GreenWater. However, when I did my interview over the phone, he said if offered the position, it would be 18 months.
01-03-2017, 07:54 PM
#58
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Joined APC: May 2016
Posts: 143
Originally Posted by JohnBurke
If the pilot signs the contract and has read it before hand, how is it "bogus?"
If you don't plan on staying for the term of the contract, then don't sign it. Contracts exist precisely because of dishonest pilots who take the training and don't honor their word. Don't blame the company; blame those who defecated in the bed in which you must now lay.
It seems that pilots who enter into the contract are more than willing to sign it to get what they want. They don't want to honor their word once they want something else more.
Pick up one end of the stick, pick up the other.
If you don't plan on staying for the term of the contract, then don't sign it. Contracts exist precisely because of dishonest pilots who take the training and don't honor their word. Don't blame the company; blame those who defecated in the bed in which you must now lay.
It seems that pilots who enter into the contract are more than willing to sign it to get what they want. They don't want to honor their word once they want something else more.
Pick up one end of the stick, pick up the other.
The problem with training contracts is they allow companies to become lazy. The second that a company decides to switch to using training contracts where is their incentive to spend money on pilot retention?
They know that you are 95% likely to leave at the end of your training contract.
I can more easily understand a training contract if there is a type rating involved. Flight safety is not cheap.
Training in a Caravan costs about $1000 an hour so it is not cheap either, but it is a hell of a lot more expensive for a person to make the decision that they want to be a pilot and have to get 1200 flight hours.
My friend said it best. There is not a pilot shortage, it is a pay shortage. When they start paying guys 100k a year to fly Caravans around there will be guys coming out of the woodwork to take those jobs.
01-05-2017, 05:05 PM
#59
Line Holder
Joined APC: Dec 2016
Posts: 71
Originally Posted by DiveAndDrive
I have a 1/30 class date! Anyone else? Also... does anyone have anything to study? I want to be as prepared as possible.
Also. What does the check ride entail?
Also. What does the check ride entail?
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