FlightLife

This makes me feel better. I've been studying material for a month already and don't start training till July. I'm looking forward to it.



For anyone worried they may not be able to memorize the flows, it's not as bad as you may think (but that doesn't mean relax about it). If you're trying to memorize a list of written items, you'll make it really hard on yourself and it won't help much in the cockpit. Instead, you'll want to use a cockpit poster, or find a really detailed picture online, and actually go through the motions of manipulating each step on the list until its memorized. For anyone familiar with the learning process, this is basically the same as making a mind map, which really accelerates the memorization process. All cockpit flows are a mind map. I was able to memorize the originating, before engine start, engine start, after engine start, taxi, before takeoff, runway items, takeoff, climb, cruise, and descent flows and callouts in a few nights (that may be exaggerating a bit, but it really does go quick once you get the mind map thing going in your head).



I understand this information may be a no-brainer for a lot of folks, but for others, this may be the first company where you have to have memorized flows in place from the start instead of learning flows on the fly with a checklist.



Just my 2 cents.

frmrbuffdrvr

What do your night and instrument times look like? Is your XC time point to point or over 50 mile? (All point to point XC counts toward the Part 135 mins of 500 hours.)

HighWingingIt

Thinking about applying, I see there’s some BE99 positions available. Is there a contract for flying a non-typed Aircraft? Or is there a “training” contract simply for just training/Indoc and such.


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FreightDogs

Nope, no training or regular contract!

At this moment, we only have one contract and that is for our ACP First Officer positions.

Hope that helps!

tonsterboy5

How long is this contract?

FreightDogs

The ACP contract is only for our First Officers in the Accelerated Captain Program.

The contract is based on flight hours flown with us not time. It's based on 1,200 flight hours with every 400 hours being worth $5,000 as our training costs us about $15,000 per pilot.

tonsterboy5

So if someone comes in at the minimums for the Acp program of 800 hours they would have a contract for $5k or how many hours after 1200?

FreightDogs

It's a ladder contract.
So if someone came in at 800 TT and flew zero hours for Ameriflight (quit right after training), they would owe $15,000 (the cost of training).
If they came in at 800 TT and flew 400 hours for Ameriflight, they would owe $10,000.
If they came in at 800 TT and flew 800 hours for Ameriflight, they would owe $5,000.
If they came in at 800 TT and flew the full 1,200 hours for Ameriflight, they would owe $0.

So essentially, you would fly with Ameriflight until you reach 2,000 TT in order to be good on your contract. With our average flight hours, that puts you with Ameriflight for a little less than two years.

pilotue

What if somebody comes with 950+h and only need 50h of training as opposed to 200h? Do the same contract terms apppy?

flyingnerd

Asking for a friend, would AMF sponsor a Visa for a foreign candidate (Kenya in his case)? He has a few thousand hours, an ATP, and has prior 135 PIC experience in a 208 in the US.