Kinda Like Dayjet but…

Velocity173 said:
Friend at work just got hired on with these guys. If you don’t mind single pilot and don’t find the looks of the SF50 completely repulsive, this might be a good option for a starter job. Pay ain’t bad either.

https://verijet.com/Careers/Pilots
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Starter job? This sounds like a great retirement job. Decent pay for the stone simple airplane to be flown. Better than Planesense and most fw EMS, for way smaller equipment mind you. Single pylet short range is as you know, not a bug to me, it's a feature. Keeping this bookmarked for my mil retirement search. Thanks for the link!

The homebasing details are probably the potential fly in the oint. If it's commute on Day 0 and 8 then womp womp. If it's Day 1 and 7 then yes yes. :D
 
Personal use of company aircraft … do they also have a 152 for a bait and switch? :)
 
RyanB said:
Yeah, I’d be curious to know more about that.
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More to the point, their jet cards are $3,250 / hour. I wonder how much they charge for personal use. It could be a very good gig.
 
hindsight2020 said:
Starter job? This sounds like a great retirement job. Decent pay for the stone simple airplane to be flown. Better than Planesense and most fw EMS, for way smaller equipment mind you. Single pylet short range is as you know, not a bug to me, it's a feature. Keeping this bookmarked for my mil retirement search. Thanks for the link!

The homebasing details are probably the potential fly in the oint. If it's commute on Day 0 and 8 then womp womp. If it's Day 1 and 7 then yes yes. :D
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Yeah he said home based but the travel for that 7 days on? That’s a deal breaker for me. But, he’s always wanted to fly jets though so this is right up his alley. I’ve always wanted to fly jets as well but ones that have a pointy nose with fire coming out the back and pulls Gs. ;)
 
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Velocity173 said:
Yeah he said home based but the travel for that 7 days on? That’s a deal breaker for me. But, he’s always wanted to fly jets though so this is right up his alley. I’ve always wanted to fly jets as well but ones that have a pointy nose with fire coming out the back and pulls Gs. ;)
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The Concorde?
 
SoonerAviator said:
The Concorde?
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Actually as transports go, that’s probably the only one I’d want to fly. Fascinating aircraft.

This wouldn’t be a that bad of a job if it didn’t have 7 on away from home. Basically 6 months gone out of the year. Be like being in the military again. But, my friend has always wanted to fly jets so he’s willing to sacrifice some time away from home. It’s funny, even in the Army he wanted fixed wing and his branch manager promised him that if he graduated top of his class. He graduated distinguished honor grad and still got helos. :(
 
Velocity173 said:
This wouldn’t be a that bad of a job if it didn’t have 7 on away from home. Basically 6 months gone out of the year. Be like being in the military again.
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I'm still decades from forced retirement, but I think about these kinds of jobs if the main gig stops being fun and I decide to hang it up early. Ultimately the 7 days gets me too. Even 3 days/2 nights is about my limit, especially with the kiddo. Maybe contract work in a King Air or Citation? Retirement shouldn't be *work*, right?? :)
 
kayoh190 said:
I'm still decades from forced retirement, but I think about these kinds of jobs if the main gig stops being fun and I decide to hang it up early. Ultimately the 7 days gets me too. Even 3 days/2 nights is about my limit, especially with the kiddo. Maybe contract work in a King Air or Citation? Retirement shouldn't be *work*, right?? :)
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It surprises me because he just got married and is approaching (upper 50s). retirement age. You’d think he’d want to spend as much time at home.

While I’m happy for him, I just hope it doesn’t become a “grass isn’t always greener” scenario. Had another guy that worked in our program who jumped from an EC135 base to one of our King Air bases. He did that for maybe a year and quit. Again 7 days away from home and unlike his EC135 job, he was constantly gone. Fixed wing EMS obviously does long flights so they’re gone most of the time. Got another guy leaving that same base in February to go to a different King Air base. I guess some people are constantly chasing the ball of string. More power to them. Me, I like stability…either that or I’m just lazy. :D
 
Velocity173 said:
This wouldn’t be a that bad of a job if it didn’t have 7 on away from home.
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With the low time requirements for pilots I have a gut feeling this is a company that doesn't want to keep pilots more than a year because then they would have to pay them more.

I flew for a couple companies that told us just that. One company promised pilots a 1000 buck check for those who resigned on their one year anniversary. I am still waiting for that check...

Have you ever had, or been involved in, any aircraft accidents, incidents, or violations--either reported or unreported?
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Boy, how to answer this one. ''Yes Sir, I have unreported violations. I mean doesn't everyone inadvertently violate one FAR during a flight and nothing comes of it.??'' So how many of us here has come to a complete stop at a stop sign in the middle of nowhere.?? Well then, you should not have a drivers license... :rolleyes:
 
Lindberg said:
  • A guaranteed yearly bonus of up to $10,000
So you're guaranteed to get $1, but it could be more. I'd rather see a floor on a guaranteed bonus than a ceiling.....
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It is a BONUS, based on how the business does.

If it was a guaranteed minimum, it would be salary, not a bonus. :)
 
Pinecone said:
It is a BONUS, based on how the business does.

If it was a guaranteed minimum, it would be salary, not a bonus. :)
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"I could take a dump in a box and slap a guarantee on it, but then all you'd have is a guaranteed piece of ****."

If there's no guaranteed minimum, there no guaranteed bonus.
 
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