CATERPILLAR Flight Department
 

Hiring a co-pilot. Great flight department and the chief pilot is a great guy.

https://pscareer.cis.cat.com/psc/z1h...1&PostingSeq=1

Straight from the CP himself:

2000 total time minimum (the more ME time the better), ATP, Turbine experience is nice, 4 year degree preferred, 1st class medical and at least 2 years serving as a pilot with FAA part 121, 135, or corporate flight department.

applied for the 3rd time ;).... I'd love to work there!

wonder what pay is? "co-pilot" position?

I suspect somewhere between $75 - $80. Not sure - cost of living in KPIA is cheap!

Along with United Technologies and Procter & Gamble, CAT is suppose to be one of the best flight departments around.

Good equipment too, 3 CL604s (if I'm not mistaken)

I concur with everything Irish is saying. Great place to work and they always get a huge pile of applications when hiring. In addition to the 604s, it sounds like they are getting a larger Bombardier aircraft early next year.

Anyone hear from them yet?

Great company.

But very cyclical...

Not THAT cyclical; they are doing a ton of business overseas, especially in the growing BRIC countries. Which is why they fly large-cabin business jets...

Anybody here actually from Peoria?

Yes that cyclical. I used to work there. The good news is that they'll hire you back after the downturn is over.

Overseas business can help to soften the blow a bit, but a big downturn here in the US affects most everybody else too.

Lived a few towns over for a bit. It's not awful but not great. It's all what you make of it.

which town?

Galesburg.....

In my past I knew a former chief pilot there. I never got a chance to talk to him about it, but mutual acquaintances said that he was enjoying it. I'm not sure why he left though. I'm assuming a better opportunity presented itself.

USMCFLYR

no word... I'm right at mins so I would assume that probably rules me out. The worst they can do is tell me no! I'll keep on applying when I see the post though! Persistence has got to pay off!

Im a Peorian. Also heard a rumor they are selling the 604s and upgrading to Gulfstreams

Minimum hours is just a guideline, means very little. I dont think I ever met the desired hour requirements for any job I was offered.

FAR more important are your internal connections, background, personality, and interview skills. Yes, persistence also counts.

Good Luck!

That'd make sense, they need at least 1 Global, Gulfstream or large Falcon. They do a lot of business in Asia, the Mid East and deep in South America.

It would be one thing if they had to one stop only, but the CL604 doesn't have the range to do Anchorage-China,Singapore, Thailand and all these places, does it??? That means a two stop journey from Peoria. Seems like an ultra-long range bizjet is in order

They do have at least one G550 (if not 650) on order.

The rumor I heard was that the president rode in a Gulfstream and didn't like it (how is that possible lol?!) and so they have 2 global expresses on order. When I was doing a lot of flying out of PIA last summer they had a Global going into their ramp a couple times a week that was supposedly being leased or rented from the company while they were awaiting their jets on order.

Disclaimer: I didn't hear any of this from an official source, just the rumor going around while spending too many hours sitting around the FBO there.

I could be wrong on the type...I thought I had heard Gulfstream somewhere but there's definitely at least one ULR plane coming.

Because they are like a tube...and are far too noisy inside (inflight and even more so with the APU running on the ground)

At least that is what the last two new aircraft purchases I was involved with said (Global and Falcon)

Whatever, they all pay about the same.

Currently (3) jets in their fleet:

N385CT - 2004 Bombardier Challenger 604
N657CT - 2006 Bombardier Challenger 604
N793CT - 2006 Bombardier Challenger 604

Correct. All numbered for Cat's biggest machines. 385 is largest excavator, 657 is largest scraper, and 793 (until recently) the largest haul truck. CT obv CAT Tractor.

Not from Peoria, but grew up about an hour from there.

Very sure it's a Global they have on order but haven't heard of any changes to the Challenger fleet.

Rehashing to post info
 

Received a "Thanks but No Thanks" email yesterday. Good Luck to all others who applied.