Cape Air
 

Whats the deal with them?

They fly Cessna 402's.

Great bunch of pilots that seem to be happy. Operate in the northeast out of BOS and down in the Caribbean as well. I think they get get paid for duty time as opposed to flight time.

I wonder how the spar modification AD for the 402C has affected Cape's operations. I'm guessing not too badly since they have time to comply.

$70K per airplane to comply!

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Does anyone know of a comparable operation on the west coast (or near it)?

Thanks

Probably the closest comparable thing is Kenmore Air, which flies in the Seattle area. The fleet is made up primarily of seaplanes, though they do operate 4 (?) C208's.

I personally think Cape Air would be one of the coolest aviation gigs around. If I lived in that area. But it would really suck when the weather gets crappy, which is often in the NE.

But I think flying those things on those short flights would be a blast.

When the weather gets crappy is when they have their fun. VFR gets old after a while but flying in and out of ACK is IR more often than VR.

I know plenty of days when I have launched on a cavu day all up and down the east coast only to shoot an approach at ACK to mins. They do not call it the grey lady for nothing

I hear Cape Air is going to start operations out of PDX in the near future.

It's the shiznit. It's good. I'm really gonna miss it when I'm gone.

Most of the planes have already had the spar strap mod. Company doesn't blink twice at doing the right thing. Had an issue with crankshaft counterweights this past summer, and they grounded the whole fleet and changed em ALL in about 3 days. Top notch.

...and the company has been flirting with an EAS route out in the Washington/Oregon area, but until it's "Portland Ground, Cair XXX, ready to taxi with October" then it's just a rumor.

What's the pay range at Cape?

I understand this is a rumor, but have the rumored a time table..?

As a capt with cape how hard is it to get hours in the winter up in NE??? Or pay???

Captain pay: $12.80 per duty hour. You fly, you get paid...you don't fly, you get paid. :)

Getting any real hours is tough in the wintertime in NE as a junior captain. You won't have the seniority to bid a line so you'll be backup. Some days you'll fly your little blue tail off, other days you'll do one round trip from HYA to ACK and back and drop .4 in your logbook in an 8 hour shift.

Your best bet is to just bite the bullet and bid the Carribean for the winter. LOTS of flying down there, higher pay scale and if you're on Puerto Rico then overtime is awarded after 8 hours in a day or 40 in a week, whichever benefits you more. It really is a great time. Oh, and you work 4-on, 3-off so if being back in the US really meant that much to you then you could hop a Jblue direct back to BOS from San Juan on your off days.

Truly no idea. Not even speculation.

You mention CA pay... I thought they were single-pilot? They have FOs?