Hello all.

Trying to get noticed at Fly Excl.

Question.......what does it take to get noticed and a phone interview ????

I was recently in Raleigh to visit family and drove down to their office and hand deliered a resume package. In 2 months I have heard nothing.

I meet all of their experience requiremences: 3 heavy jet type ratings, 35 years of FAR 121 jet PIC experience, 15 years of turbine FAR 135 experience. No accidents, incidents or violations. 2 bachelor degrees. Finally long term NCarolina resident; Fort Bragg area. Living in the N. Texas area due to a company paid move on a domicile closure and trying to move back to the east coast.

If someone could PM a reply it will be most appreciated.

Wright Cyclones

 

Might be because they haven't had very good luck hiring retired 121 pilots.

 

Well, as a former Part 121 pilot myself, I would disagree a little about the success of hiring former Part 121 pilots, Skyking.. flyExclusive has hired a great number of former Part 121 pilots who were retired, furloughed, base closures, COVID, etc. We have former DL, AA (AA, US Air, America West), UPS, Southwest, along with a legion of former ExpressJet, Commutair, SKW, Mesa, Compass, Tran States, GoJet, etc., and they have mostly been great hires. That hopefully includes me as I just celebrated my 7th year here on property being a former Part 121 freight dog and it has been a great ride so far. Most came here, and many have stayed, for our good QOL and knowing their schedules a year in advance, along with liberal home basing.

From our heydey of hiring, things have definitely slowed down attrition-wise, as fewer pilots are moving on to the Legacies and ULCC's. Also contributing to our hiring slowdown is the lack of new jets we have received from Textron due to their strike and their slow output of new jets. I belive that we were supposed to have 33 new jets at this point, but have received only 18.

Also, contributing to our slower hiring is the acquisition of the Volato pilots, which has filled up our INDOC's since last Summer. I believe that most of them have been assimilated and I believe that normal classes will start again in May through November, with 6-8 slots per class. Our smaller March and April INDOC's are full.

WrightCyclones, respect to a former, fellow SA-227/B727 Driver! PM me for more details and maybe I can help your resume get noticed. I believe that Skyking was referring to the prima donnas, which all of us former Part 121 types sometimes get lumped into, but definitely are not.

 

I saw there is a 8/20 part-time option listed in the company pay profile. How does this work? Do you have to be on property for a certain amount of time first? PIC rated first? Thank you for the information.

 

I don't believe we are offering that anymore and my guess is they just have not updated the website
I've only met one captain that was on that part time schedule and he's no longer here.

 

Yes, part time 8/20 has been discontinued. old requirements were to be on the property for 2 years. They may bring it back in the future if hiring picks up to a frantic pace.

 

I see they're now hiring seaplane pilots in TMB. New business line? Did they buy someone else out?

 

Anyone know what the average hours flown a month on the XL is currently?

How about upgrade time? Will it matter that I have 1000 hours in the XL (only 2200 total time)

 

If you have an aircraft that doesn’t have any MEL‘s and is doing well 60-65 hours a month I have occasionally had a few months where I only had about 37 and that’s because I had an airplane that went down for maintenance and I had to sit with it for a day or two, or I had an airline out to another airplane

 

I’d have to take a guess as to what Total Time is the highest of :

• insurance company requirements
• Argus
• Wyvern