Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
Most of the guys who I flew with all had to buy a plane or get extremely lucky. Floats are cool and all but mostly useless when it comes to making a living. The guys I know who still fly floats want to get out but can't. It really is useless time unless you want to live in the bush. Even then you still don't make that much. I was offered a job flying floats in southeast AK a few summers ago. The pay was hardly more that what a two bedroom apartment would have cost me.
You could spend the next two summers working the ramp for nothing. Not worth it.
Oh yea, and you also could get yourself killed.
Skyhigh
Alternately, you could have a blast and consider the time you spend up there a once in a lifetime experience that you wouldn't trade for anything.
Most of the guys I know that have been doing it for a long time love it and wouldn't ever consider an airline job.
You could look at it either way, just depends on your brain chemistry and whether a big paycheck is more important than job satisfaction, right Skyhigh?