Originally Posted by PineappleXpres

Is prime shrinking? Didn’t realize air cargo got that fat from growth during covid.

Originally Posted by El Pilot

Is Amerijet hiring? Do they do homebasing or gateway travel to and from assignments? Looking for something with off days batched together.

Originally Posted by PineappleXpres

Is prime shrinking? Didn’t realize air cargo got that fat from growth during covid.

Originally Posted by Reactivity

It seems to be, at least for now.

Word is that Hawaiian isn't getting the A330s for Amazon quite as quickly as planned, but Amazon continues to return the 767-200s on schedule. Silver Airways was flying ATRs for Amazon. That has ended.

It's well-known that Amazon's CEO feels they overexpanded during Covid and is now working to right size the operation.

Originally Posted by El Pilot

Is Amerijet hiring? Do they do homebasing or gateway travel to and from assignments? Looking for something with off days batched together.

Originally Posted by JohnBurke

Take a look at the plates for SEQM (Quito, Ecuador), and consider flying there at night, volcanos erupting nearby, Andes winds, weather, flying at gross weights, with an engine failure or other equipment failures and a plethora of MEL items . Picture that with a first officer alongside you, fresh from a regional, who is lost, in over his head, and who leaves you in a single-pilot cockpit. Picture it on the back side of the clock. Picture it with freight duty times, not 117 duty and flight time limits, and a "dispatch" that exists to "encourage" you to go, rather than offer a lot of help. The airport may be dealing with a riot when you land. The missed approach gradient is 5.8% to 16,000'. Your IAF is at 18000'. You descend into a bowl, and fly the curvature of the bowl with 15,000' mountains around you, down to minimums at 8110'. The field is 7900'. The 180 knot limit on the descending turn in the bowl is to keep your radius small enough to avoid hitting mountains.

Or there's Bogota, at night, with mountain, terrain, wind, and of course, the radar painted red with thunderstorms. ATC will vector you through them (or more often, won't vector you, and expect you to stay on your cleared route). It may be busy. South American ATC may not be what you're used to. The Andes present something you haven't encountered, especially with "escape routes." ATC may not be helpful, sometimes may not be available, and sometimes you won't understand what's said. Sometimes, you may not like it. Don't count on traffic notifications or helpful vectors. The cargo you're carrying may not be what you want to be carrying, but you probably won't know it until...at either end. Or you may be there for the flower rush; mother's day is coming. The flowers were weighed dry. Then watered. What's your real weight? You're heavier than you think. The weight and balance put you at gross for takeoff. But that was before the watering...and it rained heavily while you were on the ground. Cargo door was open, cargo was wet, cargo was loaded, wet inside; that water goes somewhere. The floor isn't waterproof. E&E down there, other things that don't like a buildup of water. You take off, gotta make that first turn (big hills), night, IMC, weather everywhere, gear won't come up, autopilot won't engage, warnings, no pitot heat, and that pesky new guy in the other seat, turning it into a single pilot cockpit again.

Never happens, right? Hmmm...

Originally Posted by Mr Rumbold

man alive you have some horrible luck!

Originally Posted by Mr Rumbold

man alive you have some horrible luck!

Originally Posted by Aeroklass

Yes it is, I've passed the interview a few days ago.