SonicFlyer

How is their equipment? Well maintained? New?

Vref2U

This is the quintessential "Jimmy want to be a airplane businessman" story. Buy a few training aircraft, underbid projects and fund the shebang by shelling out peanuts for salaries.

There are several reputable aerial photo operations out there. They buy your ticket for the interview, they put you up in suitable or better hotels....you get to keep the points. REALLY!
Then the Boss takes you out to dinner...and pays for it...all of it.

Whoa, did I forget to mention the bennies...neat stuff like health insurance, 401K, sick days, per diem.

Oh yeah, the salaries start around $250 day for low-timers that can check out and $450 day for guys/gals with credible photo ops history.

USA Gov contracts are fairly uniform, so Jimmy is major hosing you on the salary end.

Get smart..there are far to many opportunities out there today 4 u to get a start. However, if you keep feeding the Jimmies out there, you will always be trying to get ahead. But never will.

Vref

StartUp161WanaB

^^^Oh yeah, the salaries start around $250 day for low-timers that can check out and $450 day for guys/gals with credible photo ops history.


Mind sharing some information on this?
Company names....

yrbroom

Well it's definitely not the low-time, large-scale picto vendors that we all know of. Most people applying to these low time operations are doing so because, well, they have low time and the other major picto vendors are just offering the same pay but in a different package. The Jimmy's serve a purpose. There's far too many inexperience pilots out there.

SonicFlyer

So I shouldn't apply to SH?


Who should I apply to instead?

pilot0987

Do some legwork youself man. He said there was better places to work.

yrbroom

It really depends on your hours

Elmo17

My advice is to go ahead and get an entry level survey position, and as soon as you near the 500 hour mark, start applying to other places.

luke3

Reviving this thread to ask for some updated information. I did a phone interview with them and am scheduled for the flight eval. The chief pilot seemed like an honest, straightforward guy, and mentioned that they're expanding their fleet with some Piper Aztecs. New hires still get the 172 at first, with the possibility of upgrade throughout the season.

Are any current or former pilots willing to share some information on the working environment there? How are the aircraft equipped and maintained? I guess i'll see for myself during the flight check but it's hard to get a good idea of a plane in just one flight. Even via PM if you prefer.

BLURCEO

My Coworker interviewed with them and said the aircraft were in rough shape. They do a lot of work in-house and looked like they may have don't the cheapest option on some repairs and mods to the planes.