Volato
 

Anyone here work for Volato?

There's more info on Volato on the fractional forum:

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/f...-hondajet.html

Job offer but no training date
 

What was your background? I applied a few weeks ago with an internal rec but haven't heard anything.

Currently Challenger 604 Instructor at FlightSafety, Typed in the Challenger 300, worked at Flexjet for a bit, other than that military, government, air ambulance - about 7700 hours

Bait and switch
 

I was to show up on a Monday to begin indoc and was promised to be sent to flightsafety right after. My future classmates and I received an email just the Thursday prior to indoc (mid March), saying we were not going to school, but instead just become right seat warmers until a further date. Since the guy who offered me the job was the CP, I called him up the next day and he confirmed the email, thereby going back on the training agreement. I resigned immediately, too many red flags for me at that point.

What this meant: the year-long training agreement would not start until they sent me to school, the CP couldn't tell me when that would be (he mentioned *maybe* September/October). Could not log flight time in the jet, especially as SIC, since the company still had OpSpecs A015, and I just plain didn't trust them at that point. Not a good way to start your new employees.

No comms, empty promises, no offers
 

I am a former Air Force pilot with 5000+ multi engine turbine and turboprop time CFII MEI ATP. Well qualified for major airlines. I interviewed in April and was informed that I would definitely receive an official offer in June and start training in July. Volato completely ignored me after the interview. When I bugged them enough to warrant a reply I was told the recruitment team was very excited to get me on board but they had no open positions. Yet they are still taking applications and conducting interviews. June comes with no offer and no communications. It seems they simply wish to keep potential pilot hires on the hook for 5 or more months until their training pipeline allows and it is convenient for them. Apply if you want but don't expect an official offer anytime soon or even updates. They will ignore you and lead you on as long as they can.

Interesting as I am the CP for Volato, and I would have remembered having that conversation, especially telling SICs they cannot log flight time (because that’s inherently false). We are an Eligible On Demand Operator, which requires you to have two fully qualified crew members (hence, required by regulation and thus logged time).

We have A015 for the single pilot repositions/Mx shakedowns, but all passenger flights and 99 percent of our repositions are two pilot operations.

If you use A015 and the AP works, the SIC isn’t require and can’t log the time. There’s multiple FAA letters of interpretation on this.

You also need a 135.297(g) checkout for the PIC.

Except when on Eligible on Demand operations EODO (Eligible on Demand-we are required by regulation to have 2 qualified crew on board at all times during revenue operations), supersedes A015. We cannot do single pilot revenue operations under 135. Besides, out of the 155 pilots we have, 6 have a recent .297G, I am one of them.

14CFR135(a)(1) : required by regulation. Not sure where your argument is coming from that these guys cannot log time. Just because we have the OpSpec, does not mean that is what we use in 99 percent of our operations. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-135/subpart-A/section-135.4

Let me know where you get confused, as this does get thorny. Our PIC s are SIC required too. We’re covered in about 5-6 different ways for pilots to log time.

If you have information that contradicts this guidance, let me know. We’re always about improving.