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#52
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: Window Seat
Posts: 1,430
#53
BTW none of those places are what you'd call a vacation garden spot! Of the three Nome is the best Bethel the worst and Kotzebue is just barely tolerable for a chechako. Keep an open mind, embrace cultural diversity, don't fall in with the drinking crowd and you'll have yourself one heck of a interesting time up there.
My humble $.02 from a guy who's been there. Take it or leave it.
#54
First thing to know is that you need to get out of Anchorage. The further out you get the better chance you'll have of finding some work. Bethel, Nome and Kotzebue are all good places to find 135 work for a guy with your experience level.
BTW none of those places are what you'd call a vacation garden spot! Of the three Nome is the best Bethel the worst and Kotzebue is just barely tolerable for a chechako. Keep an open mind, embrace cultural diversity, don't fall in with the drinking crowd and you'll have yourself one heck of a interesting time up there.
My humble $.02 from a guy who's been there. Take it or leave it.
BTW none of those places are what you'd call a vacation garden spot! Of the three Nome is the best Bethel the worst and Kotzebue is just barely tolerable for a chechako. Keep an open mind, embrace cultural diversity, don't fall in with the drinking crowd and you'll have yourself one heck of a interesting time up there.
My humble $.02 from a guy who's been there. Take it or leave it.
#55
New Hire
Joined APC: Apr 2009
Posts: 8
Right now pilot hirings in Ak is at a standstill. Most of the air taxi's have scaled down and have crew returning from last year or they are waiting until mid June to see how the tourist season developes before doing new hires. Not a pretty picture at all, especially when operators are getting a 100 or more resumes for a single pilot position, when one comes up. And most of those resumes are from atp's that don't have a seaplane rating or Alaska time and don't even know what a DHC 2 Beaver is!
On the otherhand if you have multi-engine with DC-3 tailwheel time, Desert Air in Anchorage wants you!! Thier number is 907-243-4700.
I've been out of pilot work for 19 months now and the prospects don't look good.
On the otherhand if you have multi-engine with DC-3 tailwheel time, Desert Air in Anchorage wants you!! Thier number is 907-243-4700.
I've been out of pilot work for 19 months now and the prospects don't look good.
#56
New Hire
Joined APC: Apr 2009
Posts: 8
Right now pilot hirings in Ak is at a standstill. Most of the air taxi's have scaled down and have crew returning from last year or they are waiting until mid June to see how the tourist season developes before doing new hires. Not a pretty picture at all, especially when operators are getting a 100 or more resumes for a single pilot position, when one comes up. And most of those resumes are from atp's that don't have a seaplane rating or Alaska time and don't even know what a DHC 2 Beaver is!
On the otherhand if you have multi-engine with DC-3 tailwheel time, Desert Air in Anchorage wants you!! Thier number is 907-243-4700.
I've been out of pilot work for 19 months now and the prospects don't look good.
On the otherhand if you have multi-engine with DC-3 tailwheel time, Desert Air in Anchorage wants you!! Thier number is 907-243-4700.
I've been out of pilot work for 19 months now and the prospects don't look good.
#57
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: Window Seat
Posts: 1,430
Standstill?
Yute hired 5... Hagelands and Grant will probably hire by late summer and the dozens of local operators will more than likely hire you on a handshake if they like you when they meet you. Even if it is at a "relative standstill" if you don't have time living in AK and time in an airplane in AK (at least 100 hours), someone from the outside will have a tougher time breaking in.
Yute hired 5... Hagelands and Grant will probably hire by late summer and the dozens of local operators will more than likely hire you on a handshake if they like you when they meet you. Even if it is at a "relative standstill" if you don't have time living in AK and time in an airplane in AK (at least 100 hours), someone from the outside will have a tougher time breaking in.
#58
New Hire
Joined APC: May 2010
Position: CH-47D Flight Engineer
Posts: 7
Good luck in Germany Rino.
If I'm still poking around APCF when you get out/done in Germany, and if you still are interested in AK send me a PM before you ETS(? are you out now, I guess so if you've got a six figure job lined up?). Ill try to help out another vet anyday.
Be safe. Stay frosty.
If I'm still poking around APCF when you get out/done in Germany, and if you still are interested in AK send me a PM before you ETS(? are you out now, I guess so if you've got a six figure job lined up?). Ill try to help out another vet anyday.
Be safe. Stay frosty.
I have been out since 2005, but i am determined to make a living wiggling the sticks instead of running the test equipment in the back. Since all my aviation experience has been flying in Helicopters from one LZ to the other low and fast I think I will be best suited for Bush flying. I have NO desire to fly the big shinny busses. Any help will be great!
[email protected]
feel free to email, i cant figure out how to PM, or am not allowed to yet.
#59
New Hire
Joined APC: Apr 2010
Position: DC-3
Posts: 3
Hi Rino. My Two cents. Take it slow and easy. The best pilot in Alaska is a comfortable pilot; one who is cool, calm, and collected. "Bush flying" really means two things up here. The "Bush" is the outer villages (mostly west and northwest). The rest is backcountry (gravel bars, glaciers, lakes, tundra etc). Each have their own dynamic and special set of skills. Most pilots up here (including company chief pilots) don't give a #%^$ about how many students you trained or that you can recite the V-speeds of your superchicken or that you flew in the snow once. Come up here, be humble, cut your teeth on the little stuff like instructing and flight seeing and let your experience come at its own pace. Cocky gets you killed, weather it be by crashing your airplane or by one of us with a 2x4 behind the hangar. Most of us will welcome you, but we have seen many come and go. Most fail. Some stay and get the privilege of flying in this beautiful and unforgiving place.
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