Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Everything PRO from one poster is no more helpful than everything NEGATIVE from another.
I know personally, I'd be much less likely to believe either one of them in that case. I'd rather see someone who can speak to both the good and the bad in the same breath. At least then it comes as a more balanced approach.
If there is really nothing good at a particular job (how often do we hear 'I love the people/crews/etc...' but......), then share why you joined the company in the first place and what you THOUGHT it was going to be like, and how it ended up being like. These people are making the same decisions that you made however long ago and I'm sure that someone coming across an internet forum didn't persuade you to change your mind either.
Here ya go. Joined AMF as a 1500 TT, 74ME hour pilot with 135 VFR experience. Wanted MTPIC time. I got 700 hours of that in a year so chock that up as a success. Was a company instructor in the 99, and got invaluable experience. Just last week I got put through my paces in a BE200 with an ex Northwest Airlines instructor, and he was surprised that a 2600TT guy flew a multi turbine single pilot (emergency procedures and all) like it was nothing. I wouldn't trade my /a no-autopilot MTPIC for anything. My job in a Citation is directly linked to my experience as a freight guy. HOWEVER. My wife hated me, my kids asked why dad was never home, my family lived in the ghetto and we blew through our life savings just trying to make ends meet. I freelanced as an instructor trying to pay the bills, and was pretty much an absent parent and father for a year. I spent my 200+ nights away from home in a ******** crew apartment filled with black mold, and generally had no contact from the management group, except for sunny canned motivational emails. My first run which I was assigned was illegal per our Ops manual and 135 regs. I miss AMF like a hemorrhoid. However, my current contract work was made possible by the single pilot turbine freight job that AMF got me.
If you want turbine PIC, it's the place for you. But it's a craphole company, and all the long timers were either autistic and weird as *hit, or just had no desire to move upward professionally. If you want to top out under 100k, stay here. Personally, I more than doubled my AMF pay the day I quit, and cut my hours worked a week by 70%. Folks that stay either have no motivation or ability to move upward.
There you go, PRO and NEG. hate if you wish. That's my first hand experience.
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