Pipeline Pilot Needed
08-11-2007 | 07:47 PM
#12
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You can find these kind of jobs advertised on climbto350. It's not free, but I got several different part 91/135 job offers through it earlier this year. One of them was a pipeline job in TX and the guy wanted me to come work for him (but I was picked up by a regional.) It sounded like a fun job, he said you fly at 200 ft. looking for leaks or something. He also said in the beginning you have someone fly with you, for as long as you need to get comfortable, and then you're on your own. I would so do it right now if law/company rules allowed it. I'm really missing my old part 91 job, it was honestly a lot more fun. oh well.
08-12-2007 | 05:40 AM
#13
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So what do these jobs pay? I would venture a guess they are smallish outfits that have contracts with the various gas corporations down there, and the pilot is an employee of whatever contractor. Pilot paid by the hour..? By the flight-hour? And what about bad weather weeks like the last 8 in Texas. I wonder if many pilots doing this job recently quit because of the bad weather, and couldn't afford to stick it out any longer. Hmm, that would also explain this thread wouldn't it.
Last edited by Cubdriver; 08-12-2007 at 06:07 AM.
08-14-2007 | 08:12 AM
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I fly a Seminole occasionally for fun but not professionally. The closest thing I do to professional flying is dropping skydivers from a 182. It's more of a hobby than a job. I would love to get my CFI, because that would be the best sort of flying for me. When ATP starts taking people again I may go for it. I have pretty much given up hope of flying for a living though, it just doesn't pay enough to tow my student loans. It seems to be only for the young, rich, and fortunate!
Last edited by Cubdriver; 08-14-2007 at 02:41 PM.
08-15-2007 | 07:38 PM
#17
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I fly a Cessna 150. I pretty much fly around the weather or wait until it passes. Never had a month that I flew less then 100 hours. I get paid by the hour so I make a decent living. I make more than FO's at airlines. Plus, I'm home every night and off on weekends.
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