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Old 16th Sep 2008, 18:11
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There's several areas of corporate flying.

You have your straight charter work. Depending on the company you're with you will have to be very flexible and usually quite experienced.

There's working for 1 person. This could be the cruisiest or the toughest gig depending. You'll be on a blackberry/phone 24/7. Connections are vital as is experience and ability.

Then there's the managed flight operations. That is, some one owns the jet but "lend" it to a managed operation. There's a few of these around. TAG is one of them. Here you along with your team set your roster and pay. Occasionally they do hire low houred pilots but see below.

Fractional operations are well known in the US but there's only a few in Europe. The main or biggest one is NetJets. Low houred pilots only come from their cadet scheme.

Most rarely take low houred pilots. If they do, it's the person they're after so what you need to bring to the table is maturity, dependability, a high degree of independence and flexibility as well as very well developed customer skills. You do need to network, you'll need to get out and meet and greet. You might need to get a job in an FBO to learn customer handling.

One option that a few take is to do some instructing with an operator that also does charters.

Good luck. It's great flying.
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