pilotrob84

I agree. My time here is not bad at all.

Stryker

I've flown glass for a majority of my career and I get sick of it... Steam gauges make a good pilot, and by default weed out poor ones.

own nav

It's a pretty bold claim to discredit the value of turbine PIC. Having said that, your resume is what it is, and certain things are filters in the hiring process (college degree, categories of flying time, clean record, etc.).

In the end, once you get past the filtering process, your references are the real difference maker in getting an interview.

8ballfreight

Most pilots at AMF are not old enough to understand the difference between right, wrong and abuse.
The guys who expect a proper employee-employer relationship won't have a good time. Simple as that.

Jrflight

Can anyone give me some knowledge on which aircraft and what the schedules are like out of DFW?

frmrbuffdrvr

Actually OUT of DFW are SA227s and BE1900s. The BE99 runs that operate from DFW are outstation based in Lubbock, Pampa and Vernon TX.

Vernon and Pampa are similar runs. They both operate Monday PM through Friday AM. Vernon departs about 7PM, stops in Wichita Falls (SPS) and gets into DFW about 9PM. It departs in the morning about 6:30AM and goes back through SPS on the way to Vernon.

The Pampa PM flight is similar, departing PPA about 7PM, stopping in Clinton OK and getting into DFW around 9:15. In the morning, it departs empty from DFW between 3:30 and 4AM and goes to Lubbock. It picks up freight in LBB and departs about 6:30 to PPA.

Lubbock has 3 pilots assigned that operate on a rotating, 3 week schedule. One week is doing the run from LBB to Midland to Alpine in the morning (M - F) and back to LBB in the evening. One week comes into DFW at about 7:45PM (M-F) and returns empty at 3:30 AM except on Saturday which comes back with freight about 6:30AM. The final week does a split AM/PM reserve shift, M-F.

The runs from San Antonio also fall under the control of DFW. Those are all outstationed runs (with the exception of two reserve lines) that operate Monday evening through either Friday (BE99-San Angelo) or Saturday morning (BE99-Brownwood; BE1900s-Midland, Del Rio and Corpus Christi.)

own nav

And suddenly there's a little more to DFW.

frmrbuffdrvr

(and this is because a smiley by itself is too short of a message for the system to accept.)

aTomatoFlames

If your goal is 121 I don't think AMF is the best choice. Its not a bad choice, and you will gain experience that you other wise wouldn't have. But you're also loosing seneiority and better QOL as you wait. I have had two completely different experience at AMF. My first base was great; schedule was ok If you weren't building time, layovers were awesome, and I had a lot of fun. I dislike my new run, I work six days a week, have to fill a 99 five days a week, and my show time is was to early. Dispatch has left me stranded on more then one occasion at my first base (I believe that had more to do with base dispatch as opposed AMF dispatch as a whole).

In short AMF isn't for everybody and just be prepared when you decided to work here. At the same time I complain I knew what I was getting into and I choose to build for my current gig so can I really complain?

own nav

Did you mean smiley, cuz I see a gasp. I'm sensing you got word of this a little before the rest of us.