JohnnyG

Nope! I'd have to move. If they are giving priority to local pilots it makes sense. It seems like none of the regionals or big 135s are local to the middle West Coast.

jpso

It's hard to say what their chances are. PlaneSense is looking for local (100mi of PSM/PDK) Pilots. They're looking for guys with good instrument experience and work ethic. Also, someone who is outgoing/pleasurable to be around since, we're trapped together for 8 days! It's not just as simple as a candidate meeting the minimum flight time requirements, acing the tech/hr interview and flying a rock solid precision approach in the sim.

jpso

As far as I know, we haven't held a new hire class for a few months and won't be for another few months as well.

palgia841

Quick questions to folks who currently fly here:

What's your typical day like? How many legs vs. waiting? revenue vs. empty legs?

Also, how does the company manage the flow of pilots vs. airplanes during the 8 on days? In other words, do you always pick up a plane at PDK or PSM on day 1 and stay with it the whole 8 days until you drop it off at domicile? Or does the company fly you commercial to pick up planes almost every other day like a NetJets would? Just trying to imagine what these 8 days would be like.

Thanks in advance for your input. Sounds like a great place to work.

feltf4

The best way I can put it is; no months/weeks/days are the same. Generally pick up a plane and keep it for 8 days, unless needed for maintenance. You might fly to pick up an airplane, you may drive a crew car or rental to pick up an airplane. There is not a whole lot of mid cycle airline flying going on, generally on day 1; but it does happen.

The days are long there not doubt about it. I'm generally pleased with a 10 hour day. But it's generally longer than that. Flying wise you might do 2 hours or you might do 10 hours. There is a lot of airport standby these days. As far as revenue vs. not, its 91k. So pretty much every other leg is a repo.

Other than that. It's by far the easiest job in this career I think. It pays the bills. But like any other job its comes with its baggage. PM if you want more info.

jpso

feltf4 summarized it pretty well.

How many legs you fly will depend entirely on what day you're on, how many hours are left on your plane and where you are in the US at the time. Generally speaking, you should pick up an airplane on day 1 and be paired with someone on your cycle and fly for 8 days. However, this week I'm paired with someone who started 3 days after me and is not from my base. We're in the southern part of the US and only have a couple legs today. Usually when the company doesn't have any trips for us or, we're not really busy and haven't had a very busy day; we will sit standby for a few hours burning off time. To answer your last question, I've airlined to or from work 4 times in the last month.

Just imagine being called into work at 5am on day 1, working 10-13hours each day and coming home on day 8 at 9pm or later. The company has you from 4am on day 1 to 4am on day 8. Toss in what feltf4 discussed regarding airlining, taking a bus, crew car, rental car, MARTA train or whatever else operations can think of to get you to an aircraft.

withthatsaid182

The worst days are 1 and 8. Getting to and from and getting out on the road is the worst. Once out it isn't too bad. Some guys get hammered while another crew has it easy. All depends on where you are and what the schedule demands.

New hire classes start up in January. As long as you have instrument skills you will be fine. Some guys get through the interview and training only to fall apart on the road flying wise. Don't do that. It's bad. Some guys have come from VFR only backgrounds or not a lot of recent experience and it does not bode well. Just like anywhere you fly IFR. People tend to downplay the two pilot single engine turboprop job...you work just as hard as the Boeing in front of you and the learjet behind you....the only difference is nobody values your experience.

Lurie389

Any ideas as to when the "Spring 2014" class date(s) are? I threw my name in the hat a couple weeks ago and mentioned in the email that I am more than willing to relocate, and an HR person basically said get back to us when you have 1200TT (of which I'm about 25 hours short). No tentative offers to interview, nothing of the sort. I'm very interested in potentially working for them, but it just seems like they're very turned off to the idea of someone coming in from outside 100 miles from the two aforementioned bases, even if there's a willingness to relocate.

jpso

Last I heard which was directly from the DO; classes would be held Jan, Feb, March 2014. Apparently PSM or PDK didn't matter but you've got to be in that area or have a good reference from someone working here to get yourself noticed.

Lurie389

I'm over minimums now and would love the opportunity to interview! I guess I just find it hard to believe that they can fill all their classes with interested candidates from within 100nm of both bases without having to look elsewhere at all.