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Old 07-16-2017, 10:32 PM
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yrbroom
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You basically fly all day, every day given weather and maintenance. Some survey companies give a couple week-long vacations periods, but I don't believe SkyLens is one of those companies. It's not a commutable job. You wouldn't necessarily live in Louisiana. You'd go there for training and then from there take your 172 wherever they assign you to work. Maybe you're in Seattle for a 2 weeks (they said you'd be there 2 months), and then you get assigned a new project outside of Chicago and now you're there for 2 months. The contracts you're working can change pretty quickly. Typical day, given good weather and a project to work on-- wake up, breakfast, weather check, fly 4+ hours, lunch break, weather check, fly 4+ hours, do some paperwork at the end of the day, hotel, dinner, sleep, repeat. The next day you could have low clouds in the area and you have the day off. The next day you could be ferrying from one location to the next.

It is definitely one of the best ways to build a lot of time very fast though. And SkyLens seems to be one of the better companies out there.
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