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Hello,

I will be completing an internship with SkyWest in SLC beginning next month. Does anyone know possible housing options? (Short-term, as I will only be there a couple months). I am looking forward to completing the internship, however, if I can not find a feasible housing option, I will be unable to.

Your help is appreciated!

Waste of time. Don't do it. PLUS you DON'T get paid!!!!!

The unwritten rule of a crashpad is nobody lives there full time. A crashpad is not a college dorm. I'm not trying to be a d#ck I just have first hand experience with this. We had a group of interns living in my old crashpad and all they did was annoy the p!ss out of everyone else. Please be considerate of others if you do go into a crashpad.

Craigslist is your friend.

I guess I should elaborate on this...an internship at a regional (even SKW) is a waste of time. It may help you get hired as a pilot later, but it's not that hard to get a regional job anyway.

If at all possible, do an internship at a major airlne (other than AA or UAL)...some majors have been known to give preferential interviews to former interns with minimum experience levels. I know several ex-CAL interns who got hired at CAL withh 1000 hours SIC in an RJ.

The only way I would do it is if they drop the 1000tt requirement for future hiring, that might be worth it. Some regionals even drop their requirements as long as you have a comm license.

A *very* active classifieds system in SLC is KSL's classifieds.

ksl.com - Browse Listings

someone beat me to it... great city, good timing if you ski/ride. I went to school there and instructed out there if you need any info PM me. The internship is a good one, we had a lot of student do them with skywest, they ended up doing random deliveries on 900's riding on check out flights and other stuff. good luck to you

... and to answer your question about housing i could let you know of areas to look.

I agree with this.

Don't listen to this guy. Go for the internship.

I know many who have done that and got 'foot-in-the-door'. Yes, you don't get paid, but the job guarantee itself is worth it and besides you learn a lot. I know a guy who has been at Delta for less than a year now and is on a 767 International route with less than 500 PIC turbine time at regional airline. Why? Because he had the foresight to do an 'unpaid' internship.

I say do one with the regional and one with the major.

Good Luck with the crash pad!

Born and raised in Salt Lake I would recommend the Sky Harbor apartments located on North Temple just west of Redwood Road. You are extremely close to the airport (less than a 5 min drive) but it is relatively free of aircraft noise as it is not under and dep/arr corridors. I lived there for a year about 4 years ago and thought it was a nice place. Best part is that you can get your apartment furnished for like $10/mo., you can rent month to month for little extra cost and there are tons of pilots and crew living there leading to some fun impromptu hot tub parties.

Feel free to PM me for more information, I know a lot about the area.

Funny how it works, i have a place to live in SLC but no job. :D I cant seem to ever luck out and line the two up. Anyone know of any good jobs in SLC?????

Don't listen to me??? Ok so did you do an internship with SKW??? No? That's what i thought...
You don't get paid. There is NO job guarantee. They don't lower the mins. And you will not learn ANYTHING.
BTW i'm sure your friend at Delta did an internship with Delta. That i would recommend.

I did the SkyWest internship this last summer up in SLC...loved every second of it! Can't wait until I get the hours up to start working there. Max Glide is right on internships. No, you don't get paid (but very very few internships do). And no, the mins. are not lowered. But the experience you get behind the scenes and the contacts you make basically get you a job when you do get the time.

And I did live in a crashpad. Loved every second of that too! If any of the pilots from there are on the board.....WHAT'S UP?!?! MISS YOU GUYS!!!

I think that is what he was saying. That an internship at a major airline would be better than a contract provider.

I did an internship at SkyWest 4 years ago. At the end of it I got hired with much less time than everyone else in my class. Of course this is before everyone was getting hired at 1000 hours. Airlines haven't been hiring in months and there are tons of furloughed pilots on the street. When hiring does resume there won't be too many 1000 hour CFI's getting interviews. Doing the internship will be a foot in the door at the right time.

If you can PM me go ahead, i am from SLC and used to intern at OO too, if you have your CFI i know some good places you could go that pay very well.

What department are you an intern in?

stmltt,

I run the SLC Crashpad. We would be more than happy to have you at our crashpad. Please visit our website at www.slccrashpad.com. If you would like more information about our crashpad please contact me. My contact information is listed on the following page: www.slccrashpad.com/Contact.html.

I think almost all interns have been hired. As a mater of fact, one of the current Chief Pilots in SLC was a former intern.

That is correct. I think the Director of Flight Ops interned as well a long while back.