At PDX, bids tend to last about six weeks. You can bid for different runs, but it's going to depend on seniority as to whether you'll get to do something different. There tends to be some regular movement as people get bored/fed up with doing certain runs and switch things up. However, the PA-31 cargo runs tend to stay senior.

Other PDX notes: I saw someone suggesting that upgrade times might be better than OAK, but I don't think so. PDX is very overstaffed on turbine pilots right now- some may have to requal in the PA31. The only fast upgrades I've seen in the past year are people taking outstations or going to other bases to fill outstations.

*shrugs* Everyone seems to want to stay in PDX.

Any AMF guys know anything about the bro operating out of BDL??

I know the crews have bid on it and are staffed, at least that's what's been communicated to me. The FOs were in indoc this last week.

Nuts....I wish I had known that they were putting an a/c out here. I live like 30 min away from there and noticed it after non-reving back today. I guess I will throw them a resume anyways sounds like they hire that equipment based on already living there. I'm not looking to move way out west for a navajo.

Any hiring for OAK?

There were ads for "open domicile" on climbto350.com, which means they tell you where they're sticking you, but OAK is always an option.

That crew and aircraft are technically CVG based.

Just talked to Sylvia on the phone. She said there will be another class starting April 6. Not sure on the numbers yet.

Anyone know what amflights staffing looks like in SLC right now! Any chance of going straight to SLC in the 99?

I sent in a resume on the website but never heard anything back. With all the pilots out on the street now I'm sure they are probably flooded with resumes and there are probably a lot of applicants who are way more qualified than me.

There's already a line of internal bids of people waiting to go to SLC.

Unlike some airlines, we only have one HR lady for all the resumes flooding in. The best way is to call.

FlyASA

The only way to get an interview is to call about EVERYDAY. The squeeky wheel gets the greese. There are A LOT of people out on the streets right now, and I am sure HR is SWAMPED with apps, but it is possible to get hired. There is a guy in my class right now that barely meets 135 IFR mins. You just need to call, and knowing somebody on the inside really helps.

I talked to Sylvia on Tuesday and she said they were having some upcoming interviews, and to call back later this week. I've tried calling a couple times each day, and I only get her voicemail. I didn't know if they aren't having the interviews now, or if they already have enough people. I would greatly appreciate any information you could sare.

I dont know if they are interviewing today or not, but everyone in my class interviewed with an ACP in either PDX OAK or PHX.

Yeah, I finally just called her and told her that I had applied awhile back and didn't hear anything. So she asked my name, pulled up my app and looked over it for a minute.. She told me to hop in the sim and study and call her last Thursday for an interview..

So I did all of that, and then upon calling last Thursday she said that they won't be giving me an interview because they want me to have more recent flight experience and more recent IFR time.

Can't win them all.. the problem is that I am coming up on being furloughed 6 months.

I am over 1500 TT and over 550 ME, with around 150 hours of instrument..

Good luck to those who make it though!

Imp, did she have any suggestions as to how you can get more recent flight time and more recent IFR time given that you are furloughed? Does anybody have any idea how a furloughed pilot can retain recency?

This is like that thing we all heard "you don't get hired because you don't have experience, but you can't get that experience if you don't have a job." What a topsy turvy world we live in.

It's called biting the bullet and going out and renting a C172 and doing approaches or some flight instruction.

That's about the equivlaent of asking if Skywest has a 2 year upgrade in SLC.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, that you're just curious and looking for info, but I'd be careful about sounding ignorant and/or presumptuous.

The best way to get into turbine equipment lately is to be willing to move to CVG or Puerto Rico. SLC hasn't had any new hires in the last year, just a couple transfers, not much movement other than that.

Thanks, Fdog. Seems there are 3 Metros. I see them in customs every am.I have seen them for years infront of my hanger.

[quote=own nav;582150]The best way to get into turbine equipment lately is to be willing to move to CVG or Puerto Rico.

i thought puerto rico was REALLY senior with not much movement.

[quote=slipped;583292]It may be, but it's also a hot spot for new FedEx routes. CVG is also due to new DHL and UPS business out of ILN and SDF. In either case, its a little harder to get pilots to transfer from other bases which are mostly in the western US.

what kind of avionics equipment do the PA 31's have?

VOR, HSI, autopilots, and we are slowly putting WAAS GNS430s in the aircraft

kickin it old school. im a fan

nothing like a day of /a

even better when your DME takes a crap and you have to advise ATC you are /U and they have no idea what you are talking about.

it's becoming so bad that you have to tell them 3 or 4 times in a flight that you're a slant alpha when they continue to tell you "go here or go there"...

as long as you get an initial heading and in positive radar control then you can take a heading for JFK if they will let you.

The farthest I have ever heard an aircraft cleared, was when I was flying nights between BUR and OAK and as I was departing BUR and on LA Center's freq over Gorman VOR there would be an Aer Lingus flight and I heard,

"Shamrock XX, cleared direct Dublin"

Anyone know what the latest base vacancies are? They were advertising PDX and OAK, but now the job postings say OPEN DOMICILE again. Are they still looking for more Bro FOs in CVG with the increase of DHL business?

Any word of more new hire classes after April?

All Brasilia vacancies have been filled at last check.

I talked to the director of training the other day and she said that they are "planning a class a month till the end of the year"...

That's good news! I just don't feel ready and proficient right now to even interview. I haven't flown a piston airplane in 2 years, but that is changing hopefully over the next few weeks as Im looking to get my ATP in a Seneca and get instrument proficient again on steam gauges. Not expecting a recall, so I'm looking at different flying options now. Hopefully AMF will continue to hire and have openings along the West coast...

Possibly Puerto Rico ops but otherwise no more emb120 spots for a while from what I was told...

Not doubting the validity of what you heard, but theres no way LA center can "clear" a flight over the Atlantic Ocean. You have to obtain oceanic clearance from Gander on VHF, sometimes through Moncton Center, or HF. Maybe he was kidding or "Dublin" ironically could have been a waypoint on the flight plan...hmmm?:D

Planned attrition or expansion?

What are the chances for BUR and CVG right now

You are correct, I was going off freq as I heard the transmission so I didn't get to hear the "response" from Shamrock. I have heard LA Center Controllers clear JetBlue direct Ft. Lauderdale from over So Cal airspace, they of course got probably put back on route down the line somewhere...

for BUR, chances not good. CVG, chances very good.

i talked to sylvia and it looks like im going to have an interview in dallas in a couple of weeks. did anyone interview there and happen to remember some of the questions asked and what the sim ride was like. thanks