Avantair
01-24-2009, 12:44 PM
#32
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Originally Posted by acebaxter
That's interesting. The website says currently "interviewing". That must be for a pool, or is the website out of date?
Jim
Jim
APC:
Hiring. All classes full until end of the year. Accepting resumes but candidates will be placed in classes sometime in 2009.
USMCFLYR
01-25-2009, 05:43 AM
#35
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Originally Posted by GlasssPilot
I heard of a guy who had some B747 time that turned out to be a problem. Turns out the time was in Microsoft Flight Sim and he logged it and included it in his resume!
One of the best "interview stories" I've heard.
One of the best "interview stories" I've heard.
01-25-2009, 08:06 AM
#36
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: Right Seat, PIC
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still lookin for advice
Originally Posted by VAviator
Too many Avantair threads to choose from to post on, but trying to stay away from the "bankruptcy" one.
I'm looking at making Avantair my next goal in aviation. Currently, I'm disabled due to an accident (reckless pickup took me out on my motorcycle) and have loads of time for research. Avantair looks like a stable company and the relative economy of the Avanti leads me to believe they have a fair chance of going the distance in this industry. And it doesn't hurt that I love that airplane!
I'm not flying now and it may be several months to a year before I can get back into a cockpit full time, so I know I might have to go back and do some instructing or pipeline patrol again to build up recent time. But so far I've logged 1670TT and 500ME. After getting some recent time, what would be the best next step? I don't have any turbine time and know I'll need more multi to be competitive, so what could be some options?
I've read somewhere that Avantair wants "high-speed turboprop" or jet time. Is this true? A couple options I've looked at are flying Grand Canyon tours or a few years with Seaborne in the Caribbean. I think it would possible to get on with both of these with relatively low times, but would flying a Twin Otter be a bad move? I wouldn't want to spend a few years racking up time that would effectively be useless for what I want to do.
Any info, insight, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
VAviator
I'm looking at making Avantair my next goal in aviation. Currently, I'm disabled due to an accident (reckless pickup took me out on my motorcycle) and have loads of time for research. Avantair looks like a stable company and the relative economy of the Avanti leads me to believe they have a fair chance of going the distance in this industry. And it doesn't hurt that I love that airplane!
I'm not flying now and it may be several months to a year before I can get back into a cockpit full time, so I know I might have to go back and do some instructing or pipeline patrol again to build up recent time. But so far I've logged 1670TT and 500ME. After getting some recent time, what would be the best next step? I don't have any turbine time and know I'll need more multi to be competitive, so what could be some options?
I've read somewhere that Avantair wants "high-speed turboprop" or jet time. Is this true? A couple options I've looked at are flying Grand Canyon tours or a few years with Seaborne in the Caribbean. I think it would possible to get on with both of these with relatively low times, but would flying a Twin Otter be a bad move? I wouldn't want to spend a few years racking up time that would effectively be useless for what I want to do.
Any info, insight, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
VAviator
01-25-2009, 06:37 PM
#37
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Position: Standing in front of the tank with a shopping bag
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Actually, there are a lot of "big" airplane pilots on the street now...
Originally Posted by evilboy
This is a myth that's been around since the darn Flight Sims came out. Recruiters would notice there's something fishy if your resume says B747 time, but there's no rating.
Sadly Evil,In this market, there are a LOT of pilots with B747, B727, B737, B757, A320, MD-11, DC-10, and anything else that you can think of that are now on the street, but were furloughed before they got the PIC Type (Yeah, I know, they got the SIC type though...). This is very much like the early 1990's, when Eastern, Pan Am, US Air, TWA, America West, Midway, the military, etc. all furloughed. The only difference between then and now is that in the 1990's there were the have and the have nots... But now, Everybody is or is about to "have not".
So, tragically, there are a lot of Kalitta, Gemini, Focus Air, Cargo 360, Air Tran, Sky Bus, Atlas, Frontier, United, Spirit, American, ABX, Astar, etc. "big" airplane pilots on the street.
Good luck to us all in these 5h1tty times.
In Unity,
B727DRVR
01-27-2009, 05:24 PM
#39
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Originally Posted by USMCFLYR
I thought that the website (the APC page at least) said that the rest of the classes for the year were full but they were planning on interviewing/hiring later in the year ('09).
APC:
I've got mine in!
USMCFLYR
APC:
I've got mine in!
USMCFLYR
I've got a guy on the inside pulling for me. Maybe we'll share the same class?
01-27-2009, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by evilboy
This is a myth that's been around since the darn Flight Sims came out. Recruiters would notice there's something fishy if your resume says B747 time, but there's no rating.
To those trying to get on with Avantair; wait a few months and hiring will start back up.
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