Star Marianas Air
10-23-2017, 07:02 AM
#52
New Hire
Joined APC: Oct 2017
Posts: 5
Originally Posted by ndawg1234
Sorry for the late reply! It's been pretty busy here. After you get settled in and do all of your new hire paperwork, you're off to training sit through a short presentation about how the discovery flights work and the routes. Then I sat in the backseat of a discovery flight to observe one or two flights. Then you hop in a Cessna or Piper and go do a checkout w/ one of the senior pilots. It's really basic stuff like stalls, steep turns, stalls. A few touch and goes and it comes to about .8 for the checkout. It's not so much a checkride, really basic if you've flown recently.
Next is your IOE. You will be flying paying passengers as PIC, but one of the senior pilots will be in the backseat observing you for just a few flights. After that you're cleared on that aircraft. Eventually you do a checkout in the other plane and then you're cut lose and cleared to fly either one. You can fly in either seat (but personally I fly in the right seat, much easier for me!)
Hope that helped!
Next is your IOE. You will be flying paying passengers as PIC, but one of the senior pilots will be in the backseat observing you for just a few flights. After that you're cleared on that aircraft. Eventually you do a checkout in the other plane and then you're cut lose and cleared to fly either one. You can fly in either seat (but personally I fly in the right seat, much easier for me!)
Hope that helped!
12-06-2017, 07:48 PM
#54
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2017
Posts: 29
Aloha from Hawaii
Hello all, newbie poster here. Have been keeping an eye on this place and following this thread for the last year or so and am now highly considering applying. Commercial pilot ASEL and AMEL w/ instrument rating and about 435 total time. Website says their hiring, anyone working there know for sure? Seems like a great option for someone like me who does not want to go the CFI route.
12-18-2017, 06:37 PM
#55
On Reserve
Joined APC: Feb 2017
Posts: 19
Originally Posted by Dburg30
Hello all, newbie poster here. Have been keeping an eye on this place and following this thread for the last year or so and am now highly considering applying. Commercial pilot ASEL and AMEL w/ instrument rating and about 435 total time. Website says their hiring, anyone working there know for sure? Seems like a great option for someone like me who does not want to go the CFI route.
12-18-2017, 07:37 PM
#56
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2017
Posts: 29
Originally Posted by Luewk
they're definitely hiring. I have 260 TT but will have 300 soonish and have an interview with them this week. still not sure if I should go with them or not though. any insight is always appreciated.
12-19-2017, 03:55 PM
#57
In a land of unicorns
Joined APC: Apr 2014
Position: Whale FO
Posts: 6,469
No point to do your FOI before interview, they will hire you without it, just tell them you'll do it before you start.
Unless you intend on becoming a CFI of course, but then you wouldn't be going to Star Marianas...
Unless you intend on becoming a CFI of course, but then you wouldn't be going to Star Marianas...
12-22-2017, 10:26 PM
#58
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2017
Posts: 29
Originally Posted by dera
No point to do your FOI before interview, they will hire you without it, just tell them you'll do it before you start.
Unless you intend on becoming a CFI of course, but then you wouldn't be going to Star Marianas...
Unless you intend on becoming a CFI of course, but then you wouldn't be going to Star Marianas...
12-23-2017, 06:01 AM
#59
In a land of unicorns
Joined APC: Apr 2014
Position: Whale FO
Posts: 6,469
Originally Posted by Dburg30
Oh ok, well I wish I knew that before I took the exam lol. I passed it and app is submitted so just playing the waiting game now. Anyone got any advice on the interview process?
If you're not a complete psycho, they'll hire you.
12-25-2017, 09:55 PM
#60
On Reserve
Joined APC: Feb 2017
Posts: 19
Interview went fine. It seems they just want to know how fast you can make it down there. I don't meet their 100 hr xc and 25 hr night xc and am a bit torn between building the time over the next month and then heading down there, or just eating it and becoming a CFI. any advice is appreciated.
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