Edinburgh Air Charter Ltd., based at, well you can probably guess!
Excellent firm, excellent employer, probably the best piston twin taxi company in the UK for conditions with some exceptional veriety of flying; mainly up and down the UK into all the major destinations, including Heathrow and Gatwick(that gets the spotters out in their droves!) and accross into Europe as far as Germany, often Norway, Holland, Denmark etc, and of course the Glasgow 'Flying Eye' for Radio Clyde, another great bunch of people and great fun to do - VFR in the zone with plenty of steep turns and sick pax!
It may be worth a cv to them but with JAR Ops looming you will need 700hrs TT to fly single crew, I was lucky when I joined it wasn't an issue but most definately is now, so unless you are very close to that figure don't waste the stamp! Sorry to be the bearer of that bad news as I'm sure if you all had 700hrs you would probably be snapped up by a regional. This will pose a problem for other small taxi outfits as time moves on due to not being able to find that experience and then not being able to retain it.
Once again, thanks for all your encouragement, I'll be in Wannabees for some time yet as I don't really feel qualified to post anywhere except here and questions yet!
PP
ps Deeko01, my last 'EYE' on Friday so get some good weather ordered! I don't want to have to de-ice on my last trip...oh and see if you can get a couple of celebs for pax, I'm fed up with the radio station prize winners! Barf!
pps for those who are thinking of doing single crew it means just that.....take the enquiries in the middle of the night, quote for the job, give them an 'earliest airborne' time, drive to the airport, pick up some catering/newspapers on your way (if pax), get your own weather, do your own plogs, arrange your own handling, arrange fuel, check opening hours and availability, arrange handling at destination(s)and fuel if required, de-ice yourself (without a rig), A-check, meet and greet pax, load the a/c yourself and produce W&B schedule, fly it (that's the good bit, into EGLL at 9am approaching at 120kts, sorry all you ATC'ers down south!), act as stewardess (well not really!), deal with everything else then fill in all the paperwork when you get home (making sure you comply with duty hour limitations). Otherwise it's easy.......no wonder they want 700hrs min.
[This message has been edited by Pilot Pete (edited 27 January 2001).]