A lot less skydive pilot jobs.
05-17-2019, 07:38 PM
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A lot less skydive pilot jobs.
It seems to me that there has been a lot less skydive pilot jobs posted than past years. The last few years I've looked every summer I'd see plenty of dropzone jobs, but not this year, that and dropzone changed their layout where it's more clunky now than before.
05-18-2019, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by ESQ702
Since no one needs to safely land again after takeoff except the pilot droids are now mainly used for skydive ops.
In all seriousness, try Climbto350?
05-18-2019, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Diverb
I guess im missing something. What’s a pilot droid?
05-18-2019, 02:58 PM
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I have a job flying survey, but last year I interviewed with two different turbine skydive dropzones and the reason I didn't get hired was a lack of currency. I was seriously considering jumping ship to a turbine skydive job for the summer, but I'll just stick with aerial survey until I hit atp mins.
05-18-2019, 07:39 PM
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yeah dropzone.com messing with their UI and I imagine charging more to post ads is why it's a desert now. skydiverdriver.blogspot.com is a great resource, but it doesn't get nearly as many posts, nor is it updated as often.
05-19-2019, 03:22 AM
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Originally Posted by b3181981
I have a job flying survey, but last year I interviewed with two different turbine skydive dropzones and the reason I didn't get hired was a lack of currency. I was seriously considering jumping ship to a turbine skydive job for the summer, but I'll just stick with aerial survey until I hit atp mins.
05-19-2019, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MacrossJet
What are good paying aerial survey companies and what are their mins typically? And how many hours do you average?
05-20-2019, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by b3181981
I only know for the eagleview vendors, because that's who I work for. You have skylens, jav imagary, Sandhills aviation, landcare and two others that I don't remember, Raven I think. Pay is around $70-120 a day depending if you're flying Aztecs or 172s. Hours from 40-80 a month and the mins are wet commercial. Skylens has a post on jetcareers for recruitment for them that they posted recently, but I believe they filled up.
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