ehh not so fast my friend. social blade has him at an estimated yearly earning of 1-16k a year. Typically you make anywhere from 800-1000 dollars per 1 million views in ad revenue.

I’m with Floobs on this. I like this young man’s vids. Well made. Informative. Just the basic facts, with little to no opinion, commentary, or spin presented.

Met Swayne recently. Group setting, several pilots chatting for a while. I never did, and now really don't understand the general annoyance here. It's been said already, but he's just a bit more of an achiever than most of us. Super nice guy who (in my opinion) legitimately wants to help people become more aware of the daily routine, pluses and minuses, of becoming an airline pilot. Who gives a **** if money is part of his incentive? They're well made videos with company permission. Kudos to him. Swayne, if you're reading, good work and keep it up.

I second this. He’s humble and providing a service to aspiring pilots.

I flew with him recently. Great guy to fly with and really good pilot.


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Just watched a video of a guy who broke down his pay from YouTube and he has about the same numbers as Swayne. The guys is making $150,000 a year. Due to variables, Swayne might be making less, BUT it’s more than six figures for sure.

Real talk, we need to get Swane to grow a disgusting mustache.

Lots of the people making tons on there are not making it strictly through views but also supporting ads and sponsors, neither of which I’m sure he is allowed to do given the deal with Envoy. I could be wrong, but who cares really.

I’m oddly behind this

I will like, comment & subscribe if he grows a disgusting mustache.

He just turned 13, I don’t think it’s an option yet.

He can even make it educational by explaining why pilots aren't allowed to grow beards and why we grow mustaches to spite the company.

Is that what that's for? I thought the idea was to prevent the love life from interfering with the duties.

Hahahaaaa!!
:p

Why is that? :confused:

Calling on Swayne Martin! Teach the masses!

Unless he has sponsorships he is making nowhere near that amount. He only has 8 million views... that’s roughly 8000-10000 dollars in ad revenue total And that’s since 2013. People with his amount of viewership might make 150k IF they upload daily. He uploads maybe once a month?

Uploads daily and gets that amount of views daily, a pretty tough task in this industry. I mean you can only skirt the issues for so long before it becomes obvious you are a shill. Either way, hope he does make something and more importantly gets out sooner.

Not for the reason you think or the false reasons everyone tells you.

Better question is how does anyone think that's an acceptable thing to do?

Better question, why would anyone think it’s acceptable say that here?

He makes WHAT
 

Envoy is paying him nearly $5,000 a month to do these videos wtf - source, his friends from UND

Before you edited your post, you said this was just a rumor.
Got a source for this?

Youtube influencers don't work for free. I'm not a fan, but a lot of people do follow him.

Gotta wonder where his allegiance lies. The airline? His website?



Seems like a conflict of interest for his union brothers at the very least.

I have money saying that he’ll go to mainline after a year in the left seat or no more than 4 years at the regionals. Love him or hate him, he grabbed onto something no one else did and it’s paying off. Can’t fault him for doing his due diligence.

In any other industry he would be celebrated for his motivation and how he hustles. Swayne is what 23? He’s got a degree from one of the best aviation schools in the country, has been an instructor (I assume), flown part 135, part 121, is a good pilot from what I have heard, and he networks like a mofo. Isn’t that what all of us have tried to do? Make ourselves look good on paper so that we can get a call for that coveted interview?

Quiet professionalism is better than doing whatever it takes to get to the majors a couple years early, my opinion.

North Dakota is far from an exceptional school. Pilots act like its Harvard or Stanford. Most aviation schools are second rate universities, at best.

He road around in the right seat of a caravan and logged it. Something that is so laughable, it shouldn't even be legal flight time.

90% certain he's never worked as a CFI.

I don't dislike him. But he doesn't embody hard-work/"earned it" role model status at all.

Lol@ h8rs.

He will definitely be at AA or some other major in under 2 years.

Yeah no. He won’t even be upgraded and trained as a captain in the time, or have just barely gotten there. Unless YouTube skills now trumps turbine pic time he has a ways to go. Imagine what the media would do with that. Young YouTube sensation now flies a320’s for AA solely because he has lots of followers, safety and experience take a back seat.

Have to be real careful as an employer how you go about hiring people because if you set a precedent, others will expect the same treatment, right or wrong.

I’m that topic, minorities and women are about to lose their golden ticket as well with the new law about to be passed stating sex is how you identify not what you are born as. Every white male Should update their app to reflect the changes, once they happen. It’s going to be a crap storm for awhile.

a) he is a minority
b) majors hire FOs all the time with 0 TPIC.

Sullenbergers wise words——
 

Sullys wise words of advice to the airlines and the general public have died on the vine.

All you need to get on with the “bigs” is some kinda “gimmick “, or hustle, or some bullsh!t “minority” status. Then you’re golden. Skills, ability,experience,and hard work don’t mean squat.
That’s really too bad.

And how so is he a minority? He is a white male:confused:

He has instructed at UND and might even have his CFII? He commuted from UND on long breaks like summer, winter break, and spring break to fly right seat and log LEGAL 135 experience (not gonna debate legality of SIC in Caravan. FAA allows with that operator so it is what it is) in Hawaii. Flew multiple legs a day for low pay in Hawaii, earned a scholarship allowing him to get typed in some sort of corporate jet his senior year, excelled academically, and still managed to put out content on YouTube.

Not to mention that he networks and has a 4 year degree. I don’t think he’ll upgrade before moving on, but I know people at Delta without TPIC so take that for what it’s worth. Again, like him or hate him, he’s done all the things to standout from his peers.

P.S. He’s minotiy because he’s gay (just answering a comment from the previous page).

This thread is horrible what is wrong with people. You should be ashamed of yourselves . If this is the kind of crew I am working with I want out. I am messaging the mods to delete this completely useless thread, shouldnt even be a damn discussion.

You are all just sour , jealous and vindictive people.

He never worked/instructed at UND. His first/only flying job was F/O at Mokulele, swinging gear on the caravan.

Whelp, there ya go. He will be getting called up any time now.

On second thought tho—I don’t know if being gay will get it done by its self, judging by what I saw the last time I was at Envoy HQ. lots of happy people over there.

I see what you did there :D

Maybe they had the 208RGs to prevent ice buildup.

Who are you looking at? I see a lot of unhappy people at enyhq. Especially in the cafeteria's unexplainably slow lunch line.