Originally Posted by
PrettyFlyGuy
I know this isn't an Atlas thread and I don't usually get involved in this stuff, but a guy up here in Alaska I fly with just interviewed there on his last rotation home and received the job offer with an unknown class date. He has all c207 piston time and very little multi. So Atlas seems to be a who you know not where you come from type company(his cfi works there).
Anyway I would think a guy from AMF with lots of turbine PIC single pilot IFR would go somewhere better than Atlas/Polar.
All of our 135 single pilot guys here in Alaska seem to leave straight for Jet Blue, Alaska or Frontier and skip the regionals/knock off cargo operators.
Out of curiosity why is AMF so bad considering they pay more than most entry level multi jobs and are a quick route to PIC time? Plus a type rating that would make easy transition to a king air job if the airline route didn't work out. Not being a dick just really want an inside opinion.
PS my father is a retired chief pilot from the ol' US Airways out of the west coast and when I asked about Ameriflight he said he had no clue who that was lol. He always says that he never looked at the previous employer that detailed it was about knowing they could hand fly by the "seat of their pants" he started as an old school metro liner/1900 guy. He said I can train you to push buttons at the right time but I'm not gonna teach you how to fly lol
There is a reason they have to pay so much. They've been hemmoraging talent for a while now. Pay is great and the flying is a hell of a lot of fun, but the recruiters flat out lie. I worked a six day week. I was off sat night to Monday evening so I had 48 hrs off but let's be real any day you have to go to work is a work day. I also got screwed out of a large bonus by the company. Management is a game of musical chairs and every month they roll out some new policy or plan only to abandon it later. The main reason is quality of life. I hate the airlines, but I'm home a few days every week at least. Am flight will never approve your request for time off. Its so bad that some base managers encourage employees to call in sick to get time off (looking at you, San Juan.) I support this, honestly. The company doesn't own you. Pilots have the leverage and they are using it thankfully. If it was a regular airline schedule of 4-5 days on and 2-4 days off in between it wouldn't just be tolerable, it would be a great place to work. I knows I probably sound like a whiner, and I recent people that whine. I'm just telling how it felt to me. I flew there two years on a 6 day workweek. Plenty of down time during the day, but never felt like I ever caught up on sleep. Get your TPIC and get out. Until management addresses quality of life, that's my suggestion. Hope this helps to clarify why AMF is the way it is.