US Customs & Border Patrol Pilots
 

I've heard that the US Customs & Border Patrol offers limited employment for pilots, but I can't find anything on their web site about this. Does anyone know if these jobs really exist, what kind of background/experience an applicant would need, and how to apply?:D

CBP Pilots
 

I know they fly P-3s doing counterdrug stuff out of Curacao and Ecuador. A lot of the guys are former Navy P-3 guys, but I don't THINK that ALL of them are--I never really asked. Those guys are gone a lot--used to see them down there in Curacao about one week on, one week off, or something like that.

http://aptap.forumco.com/default.asp

Do a search for CBP. If you still have ? PM me.

Also...

http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/get...&TabNum=1&rc=7

The jobs do exist. How you get into them is a mystery to me.

My SWA interview class had a pilot from "Homeland Security". Double typed in the Blackhawk and the Citation (If I remember correctly).

I applied(see link above), interviewed, and was offered a job last month. Turned it down to fly boxes for a living. Your app gets scored and then you get called in if you make the cut. Pretty tough to get called without prior LE or Mil experience. The app had a lot of questions about experience in that area(NVG, low altitude or formation flying, radar experience, etc). Plus you get points for being a vet. Interviews were in OKC this past Jan-Feb. Great job overall but was given an airline class date before my offer came through. They fly everything from 206's to Blackhawks to Citations and P-3's(airframes vary for location to location)...I think I would have enjoyed it but it's hard to pass up the pay and time off at Brown over a career.

Slice, & everybody else that replied to this- thank you. That answers a lot of questions. So, did *anyone* without prior military experience make the cut at all?

My buddy got a job offer from them, and they have tons of non mil guys there.

When I looked into it a few years ago I came to the conclusion that it was not that different from being in the military. They tell you where to live and what to fly. It's a govt job and the pay is pretty good.

You will have to become a border patrol agent first and that requires classes in law and spanish. You will have to speak fluent spanish. I also thought you had to be dual rated but I could be wrong on that.