Found This Little Gem on Orange Site! LMAO!
 

"Part 135 CRJ200 Captains - Scottsdale, Arizona

MINIMUM qualifications:
FAA ATP and U.S. military fighter/attack aircraft experience REQUIRED. Must reside in the greater Phoenix area. CRJ type rating and previous executive VIP FAR 135 experience highly preferred.

Several positions available. Start date within 30-60 days."


I know for a fact that the best CRJ200 pilots are the ones who are able to put the pickle in the barrel while simultaneously dodging AA and talking about golf with the VIPs in the back. Oh, and by the way, CAF, Luftwaffe, etc. guys need not apply. U.S. Only! Plus, if you flew the C-5, C-17 etc. you're SOL.

Talk about reducing the number of resumes submitted! One of the craziest ones I've seen yet.

What a joke.

That one takes the cake, but I've certainly seen some jobs that have a *boatload* of requirements, and offer 20-30k a year salary.

A couple possible reasons...

The job involves flying in hot airspace in sandland or Africa.

The aircraft have had countermeasures added either due the nature of the destinations, the pax, or both.

The company caters to very high-end customers, and wants to use the fighter-pilot thing as a selling point, even if it's totally irrelevant to the actual operations.

I worked for a 135 firm years ago. Got a request for one of our Lear 24's to fly at 50 feet off the deck, 300kts in front of a Navy destroyer 50 miles out at sea to calibrate the ships radar. (repeated runs).

We turned it down.

I'm putting my money on the last reason.

The owner is probably a former fighter guy with a bent for hiring the same.

Although, I could be wrong. :rolleyes:

One of those types of jobs was the L-3 positions flying LearJets for military support missions. They wanted a military tactical flying background and were offering I think $30k/yr in San Diego.

There is one on the L-3 site now for Lear 35 FO flying at 100 feet--don't know salary.

LOVE the flying - hate the salary :(

When you are carrying passengers, there's no time to think. If you think, you're dead...

Now that's funny right there!!

yeah it is hahaha

Then C-130 or C-17 pilots would be a perfect fit...

You just described where most of us airlifter guys and gals have been flying for the past couple of decades, not to mention every -130 and -17 has defensive countermeasures...

I am guessing that this position is for the operator that is flying for Set Jet. If you look at the next of last paragraph, you will see similar language. I noticed their new sign in Scottsdale this week and looked them up.

https://setjet.com/about-us/

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

Pretty sure there's a former F-14 pilot at 9e, along with several CAs/FOs who started there as civilians, and went into ANG/AF Reserve UPT slots on various fighter a/c. I imagine there are a handful of RJ/fighter pilots at pretty much every RJ-200 operator.

A good chance that this is simply a job being posted for EEO/gov't contract compliance--with such a highly-specific set of requirements, this posting probably ensures that a specific individual or group of individuals is hired--like 1-3 buddies of the owner (or possibly the owner(s) themselves).

The part about starting in 30-60 days is about spot on--in order to receive contracts from the gov't, companies like this typically have to publicly post jobs like this for 30-60 days for EEO compliance afaik!!!

Pretty darned good chance there's at least 1 or 2 CRJ-200 experienced CAs living in PHX who work for Skywest/Mesa/etc., and who are former or current ANG/reservists with F/A flight experience.

While we can argue all day about the quality of pilots from various backgrounds, the case can be made that the fighter guys graduated at the top of their .mil pilot training class. Maybe that's part of the thought process.

Although I agree that it is either marketing hooey, or some sort of contract with the military. It is helpful for the contractors to be able to talk/understand the lingo, the scenario, for the test.