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Old 08-24-2006 | 05:56 PM
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What can anyone tell me about working at Pacific Wings? Something doesn't seem right.
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Old 08-24-2006 | 06:49 PM
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What do you mean? Can you elaborate?
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Old 08-24-2006 | 09:27 PM
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Here is the info. You work full time as a ramper/ticket agent for 4 days and you fly for one day as a SIC on a Caravan/week. You can fly on your days off, but if I remember right you do not get paid for the extra time you put in. Oh ya, the pay is $9/hour. I will not give my opinion on this... I will leave this up to you.
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Old 08-24-2006 | 09:57 PM
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Are people THAT desperate for flight time? Single-engine time is single-engine time, so what if some of it was in a big 172 that burns Jet A....
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Old 08-24-2006 | 10:23 PM
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Dont do Pacific Wings!!!!
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Old 08-25-2006 | 04:35 AM
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sounds like a bad deal to me...i was a poor instructor making 11.50/hr didn't have to work line service or ramp gate work, and could fly as much as i wanted...and would get paid for all of it. (didn't get paid to keep the paperwork up to date however, sucked)
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Old 08-25-2006 | 09:22 AM
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Thanks, I found them and was interested in the company. Not desparate for flight time I get plenty where I'm at. Almost more than I can handle. Just wanted some info...from what it sounds like not a good place to be thanks.
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Old 08-25-2006 | 04:25 PM
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I'd stay away from them too. A friend of mine works there and he's got nothing but bad things to say about them. I asked how it was possible to log SIC in an airplane certified for single pilot and he told me that their ops specs requires them to fly with a functioning autopilot OR if the autopilot is inop, they need an SIC. In other words they 'deactivate' the autopilot whenever they have another pilot on board. Sounds fishy to me but I guess some will go great lengths to log flight times these days.
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Old 01-12-2007 | 02:09 AM
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yikes...$8/hr?!?!? how do we ever pay off loans to pay for the training to get to a crappy job like flying for Pacific wings. The more I think about it...grabbing your ankles in a maximum security shower full of career crimnals is equally painful.
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Old 01-12-2007 | 11:15 PM
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Nothing good can come out of Pacific Wings.
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