Got a buddy whos looking into Airnet and he was telling me one of the people he talked to on the phone about an interview told him that prop captains were making minimum of 28k a year?? This true? Also, how senior is the caravan there?

 

It's $28017.6 to the dime. You'll make 13.47 an hour. 80 hr guarantee pr. paycheck (every two weeks). Prop airplanes are not assigned by seniority, but by company need and what run/base you end up with.

GL,

 

im still debating coming to airnet now or should i wait until i get 1200? im really liking the multi engine pic time im padding my logbook with right now...

 

If you get hired with 135 mins you will get a $3000 check for captain and $1500 for SIC. So if you are close, stay where your at and get the 3K or try to get in know and get 1.5K, either way your getting multi time, but senority is what rules in this industry. The longer you wait the farther from a Lear spot you become if thats what may interest you. Its all personal choice. I'm pretty sure airnet is going to be hiring alot more pilots in the coming months. Out of class, you either get Baron, Navajo, or Caravan, depending on whats available.

 

How close are you? If you go into their SIC program to build time toward the 1200 hour mark, they want to get you there as quickly as possible. When I was there they were putting SIC's on the high time Baron runs. Most were 4 day runs with 4 to 6 legs per night, but there were quite a few runs that had a 5th day. You could count on anywhere between 80 and 100 hours a month. This may have changed since I left... especially if they have an excessive number os SIC's in the program. I had heard a rumor that they may start putting SIC's in the Navajo's, but never heard anything to confirm that information.

I went to AirNet with about 1250 hours, and to be honest I was a bit overwhelmed after training when I went right to the line. I did get a little bit of IOE, but didn't really get as much time to absorb the flow of things as an SIC would. After a grand total of 2 nights of ride-along with another pilot, I got the "...please report to dispatch page". Take this Baron, load it with that stuff and go to Cleveland and Detroit. This was the standby Baron... two-bladed props, RNAV (no GPS), monochrome weather radar and coffee-grinder king kx-170 radios. Most fun I'd had in a while... especially once I figured out which way it was to Cleveland! I had a great time at AirNet, put some valuable and educational time in my logbook and moved on to a job flying Lear 35's with self loading cargo (135 passenger charter).

 

they still doing that 3000 sign on bonus??

 

yes... you should read all posts.

 

well ive got about 600 so far and im hitting about 80 hours a month or so... aaaah decisions decisions

 

I was saying this in regards to your post because your the first to mention this and its the first ive seen of it and my friend who is interviewing with them next week hasnt been told of it yet either so thats why I asked are they STILL doing this.

 

Just out of curiosity; does AirNet have a ramp tower they communicate with in LCK? (Or is all movement controlled by LCK ground)