Embraer Legacy jobs
 

Hi all, anybody have any information about any Legacy jobs floating around? For as many planes as Embraer seams to be selling it sure is hard to find where these planes are going.

It is very hard unless you are type rated, current and qualified... Being part 135 current is a huge plus.

Thats what im starting to see. Not typed in the EMB-600 but I have about 1600 hours in the EMB-145. From what I understand its accepted by insurance tofly across type being that they are almost carbon copies of each other minus the fuel system and additional nav units.

The EMB 145 type is also used for the EMB Legacy 600.

Thats what Flight Safety was telling me as well. It just seems kind of odd that on all the job boards out there (or at least the ones I can afford to subscribe to) that there are little or no mention of these aircraft. Makes me want to kick myself for not getting time in a Bombardier product instead.

Well you seem to be the only one on here in the "know" about them. Any advice? Feel free to PM me.

Sorry to stray off topic a bit, why don't ERJ-145 ever seem to deploy reverers?
Dave

Its company specific. The company I flew for didnt care if we used them or not. In fact we were trained to deploy the "buckets" on every landing just for drag but we rarely had to spool the engines up. The later models of the 145 had pretty beefy brakes so that helped as well after landing.

I believe that American Eagle has theres pinned shut so they cant use them. The reasoning for this (to my understanding anyhow) was its one less thing to break and you dont have to worry about FOD being blown up off the runway and into the intake. Plus if you remove the option of the pilot spooling up the engines on landing unnecessarily you can keep from burning extra gas. Sounds silly I know but thats the airline mentality on fuel savings. It goes along with the taxiing on one engine till the last possible minute and not starting the APU until 10 minutes to push. On a fleet of several hundred a/c it starts to make sense/cents :)

There simply aren't THAT many Legacies in the US, relative to other large-cabin bizjets...combine that with lots of pilots who are typed & current and you get few advertised jobs.

Swift in PHX and Excelaire in ISP are the largest operators, with a smattering of one or two-plane operations across the country.

In the last year there was a Business & Commercial Aviation that had a Legacy 600 Operators Report; see if you can find one and that'll give you a better idea.

As for as your mention about Bombardier products...there are even fewer Challenger 850s (nee CRJ-200) in the US and the CL65 type rating does **NOT** translate to the Challenger 604. On top of that, despite their similarities, not all underwriters will credit CRJ time toward having "time-in-type" for any Challenger.

Cobber is correct. This aircraft has extremely good brakes. Unless there is snow or ice, you really never need them. However here at Eagle they are not pinned. The book says we can only use them if the runway is shorter than 6,000' or if the runway is wet. There are also some other times that we MUST use them. But then there is the catch all which says that we can use them any time that we deem necessary for safety reasons. But seriously thought, the brakes are more than adequate 98% of the time.

Getting back on point....

For some sort of egotistical reason which I don't quite understand, many pilots refuse to pay a fee to access climbto350.com. But those that find it a fair deal to pay for information would know that companies in Florida and California have recently been hiring Legacy pilots.

Also, countries abroad are buying these planes and hiring qualified pilots as well. But you probably need to have a subscription to know that. Or at least know somebody that does.

PS... I don't have any affiliation with the site although it probably sounds like I do. Its just that I have found very good jobs on there and I hope my fellow pilots can find the same.