Anyone have info on vacation time for new hires? When does it start or how soon can you take it? I see the website says 80 hours.

The way I read the handbook, you don't receive the 80 hours all at once. Instead, you accrue 6.67 hours per month (times 12 months is 80 hours for the year) beginning from your hire date. But you are not eligible to begin taking it until 90 days from date of hire.

Can anyone currently flying out of BUR send me a PM, I have a few questions for ya.

Anyone know if there will be any Seattle openings?

Currently BE-99 openings in GEG and PDX but nothing listed for BFI.

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People move on all the time though. Actually showing up and talking to current pilots might give you a better idea though. They might tell you what their plans are.

GEG is what used to be BFI. Most of the runs have moved due to UPS reshuffleing. There is still one BE99 and one BE1900 is BFI but those are both currently staffed.

Hi, there! Some others chimed in already. We moved our BFI base to GEG, so BFI will now be an outstation with just a few routes and GEG will have the majority.
Currently, no BFI openings, but keep an eye out at www.ameriflight.com/careers.
We do have a BE99 Captain opening out of GEG, if interested: Captain Beech 99 Cargo Pilot - Careers At Ameriflight, LLC

Hope that helps!

Any idea when new FO positions are going to open?

E120 FO or ACP (BE1900/SA227)?

We don't have any openings on our site at the moment for First Officer, but we typically hire 1-4 each month.
Keep an eye out at www.ameriflight.com/careers, but also feel free to send a resume with updated flight times and your location availability to [email protected].
Hope that helps!

That does, thank you!

Anyone here starting class on 10/6?

Home Based
 

Is home based still a thing here?

If it is, are outstations considered in the "withing 2 hours of a base" rule for being home based?

Not really a thing anymore, but would definitely consider for a 1900 or Metro Captain.

Just bases for the 2 hour perimeter.

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Is Ameriflight hiring pilots with time lower than their posted minimums? Does anyone here know if they have hired guys with less than 500hrsTT?

Yes, we've been hiring lower than 500 hours, but not much lower. 450 TT if you have your CFI.

Are you currently hiring for the ACP program? I have the hours and would be very interested in the program. I have been out of flying for a few years years but I am planning on getting current and polishing my instrument skills while I wait on my passport renewal. I also have over 200 hrs. multi

Thanks.

Yes, we've been hiring a handful of pilots into the Accelerated Captain Program each month. Definitely give that program a shot! Quick upgrade time. :)

Thank you.

I am preparing and will be shooting my app in asap.

Thanks FreightDog for all your awesome info!

I'll be finishing up my current contract at the end of the year. Will be close to a 1000tt with over 120 instrument. Only snag is I will need to get my multi done as soon as I can and only have about 25 hours night. So looks like I would only qualify as a regular FO?

is 500 hours good enough for a FO position, or is the reality more hours required to be competitive?

Yes, the minimums are good enough. The only real aspect to "competitive" is when we have our next opening. We aren't hiring permanent first officers, so they turn over fairly quickly. Our first officers, while they are required crew members in the E120, are also here to get the hours required to become captains in our BE99s and then follow on aircraft.

Yes, with the hours listed, we could only consider you for a First Officer position. However, our goal is to get you to our Captain mins quickly. You would upgrade to Captain when you reach mins, which are: 1,200 TT, 50 ME, 500 XC (defined as point to point), 100 night, 500 PIC, 75 instrument
In your situation, that could take as little as 4-6 months.

That sounds great, where could one expect to be based as an FO?

Here are our bases for EMB120 First Officers: BQN, GEG, ONT, PDX, PHX, and SLC

Training over the holiday\Peak season
 

When you guys have classes during the holiday\peak months of Nov\Dec, are there any adjustments made to the schedule for the holiday's, or to account for check pilots having to fly the line?

It varies year to year. This year I think we plan to run classes for the BE99, SA227 and E120. This is because we have available instructors who, for various reasons, are not able to fly. We are not planning to have a BE1900 class because every available instructor for that program will probably be flying on Peak runs.

Also, wanted to add that you'll get the holiday itself off (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year) while in training. There may be additional adjustments depending on the program manager for that stage in training.

My son recently applied to you and got a response back that you are not hiring any FO's at this time. Even if they meet or exceed the minimums that you posted.

He was told that it is taking a few years to get FO's to the min hours for CA, therefore they are not hiring any at this time.

With Ameriflight? Most of our FOs are moving to captain in 4 months to a year, depending on how much time they have coming in.

that is correct. He has over 500 hours and about instruction given. Has a CFII too. Local guy in the DFW area also.

sorry a little correction. He has about 200 hours instruction given. Has his ME also.

With the hours you listed, we'd be looking at less than a year to upgrade.
If he's closer to 700 TT and willing to basically be TDY, it'd be even sooner - closer to 4 months.

We have two types of First Officers. Our EMB120 First Officers that we hire at 500 TT typically upgrade within a year. However, if they aren't willing/able to relocate and are on a lower-timed EMB120 route, then it will take longer. Our ACP First Officer that we hire at 750 TT typically upgrade within 4-6 months. They don't get assigned a base until they become Captains, because the goal is to get them to Captain mins asap.

ok. thx for the response and clarification. I will ask if he is willing to relocate, more than likely he will be. I saw in an earlier post where you listed all of EMB bases.

Thanks again.

So for the FO'S you have western Puerto Rico, Spokane, Ontario, Portland, Phoenix and Salt Lake?

Yep, you got it! Those are the bases our EMB120s fly out of.

So once he got to the hours required for CA upgrade would he then move to the left seat? How many hours is that floor? 1,000 or 1,200?

Thanks again.

Yes, if he comes in as a regular First Officer on the EMB120, he'll upgrade to a full BE99 Captain at 1,200 hours.

As FreightDogs said, he would move to the left seat of the BE99. Not directly to the left seat of the Bro. That was why I thought maybe you were talking about another company. I thought you were talking about moving right seat to left of the same company. That would take a couple of years.