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737 f/o
26th Jan 2006, 00:25
Any information about conditions at FlyMe for their pilots are welcome, thanx in adv.
737.pilot
26th Jan 2006, 10:04
Check your PM
737.pilot
Betaranger
26th Jan 2006, 11:23
You mind sharing? :hmm:
737.pilot
27th Jan 2006, 20:01
FlyMe is a great place to work. Schedule is ok and the people there are the best. The paycheck is ok for a low cost carrier. Hope the new european routes will result in new job openings.:ok:
737.pilot
27th Jan 2006, 20:21
FlyMe is looking for pilots at the moment. Don't know the actual requirements but maybe its worth trying...
Jetavia
27th Jan 2006, 21:47
Flyme requirements are:
CMD: Min. Total 4000h. 1500h PIC on aircraft with MTOW of 30 ton or above, or 1000h on type. English and at least one Scandinavian language fluently.
FO: Min. Total 1500h. incl. 500h. Multiengine. English and at least one Scandinavian language fluently.
A valid B737 type rating will be considered an advantage before employment with FlyMe.
They are not interested at all if you do not have Total 1500h. incl. 500h. Multiengine.. because of their insurance they claim.
Jimmy The Big Greek
28th Jan 2006, 08:15
You need to pay for your typerating:{ You can choose yourself where you want to do it. They just give you a date when the company training starts and by then you must have the type ready.
Sandshrew
28th Jan 2006, 16:45
I heard that two pilots got hired with a total time not above 300 hours, and no rating. One of them has just started his rating. This is of course the exception. Insurance issue.
Betaranger
28th Jan 2006, 18:38
Don't think so!
Sandshrew
28th Jan 2006, 18:43
Betaranger, I know one of them very well, he just started his rating. The other one was hired a wile ago.
737.pilot
29th Jan 2006, 10:39
well they have done that before FlyMe.
Jetavia
29th Jan 2006, 16:48
So their pilot recruitment officer is not telling the truth, when he is telling me they can't give a dispensation to their official requirements, eventhough I was trained for my 737 rating by a FlyMe captain and pilots from Falcon Air flying on the FlyMe routes on a daily basis .. bugger
What would you do to convince this chap to give a disp?
Betaranger
29th Jan 2006, 19:47
Somebody is full of :mad: , FlyMe or a ppruner, you choose.
Sandshrew
29th Jan 2006, 20:42
Jetavia, As I told you before, one of the pilots previously worked at FlyMe, and that’s why he circumnavigate most of the requirements, not because they don’t have enough applicants with 1500 hours.
Just like everything else in life, know the right people, and they will help you.
Jetavia
29th Jan 2006, 22:35
Yahh i am working on it through the people I had as instructors for the 737 rating all connected to flyme and falcon and know people in flyme... worth trying.. hoping for the best.
Jimmy The Big Greek
30th Jan 2006, 12:31
It seems like most companys in Sweden require that you pay for your rating.
I was chocked today when I heard that you need to pay for your rating at westair flying cargo turboprops.
Özcan
30th Jan 2006, 12:41
I'm shocked to hear it aswell but the typeratings are something the companies save som money from, well they have to save money somehow becausel the swedish airlines are already living on the "edge" economically now thanks to someones... and i doubt they will have any better times when the new taxes will be implemented to make the swedish infrastructure even worse because of the treehuggers who still drive around in SUV's themselves :* :mad:
Dissident
30th Jan 2006, 14:20
I think flyme can always reduce the entry requirements but why would they? If they can find qualified guys with plenty of experience and a good attitude why would they settle for gyus with less experience? Of course there will always be the people that have worked for the company in other positions and that know the "right" people and will thereby bypass the requirements! I have talked to similar operators and they have also said that it is an insurance issue!
Don't know the company myself but I hope they will make it! All employers are good!
iceshark
31st Jan 2006, 02:44
Yeah, myself being a newbie I understand the guys being willing to fly for food as I probably would have done it myself but we all have to face the fact that if we keep doing it we will end up like busdrivers... Being responsible for people´s lives on our planes but not getting paid accordingly. Where´s the glory then? The pilot shortage will hopefully strike soon but until then we have to face management making demands for lower salaries. Hope we weather the storm. Keep fighting and my respect to all SAS Pilots for taking a stand.
Jimmy The Big Greek
31st Jan 2006, 07:43
Forget the pilot shortage in europe. Especially now when JAA is going to increase the retirement age to 65.
I started with aviation since 1995 and I have come to the conclusion that the pilot shortage is just a trick for flight schools to sell their course.
Pilot shortage is a myth.
Margarita
31st Jan 2006, 08:10
Jimmy,
If you look amount of advertised jobs you must agree that we never had more jobs available in aviation! As example, if you are B737 or A320 pilot you can choose where to work.
Jimmy The Big Greek
31st Jan 2006, 16:41
thats true. But only jobs that require a typerating and MINIMUM 300 hours on type. There is no shortage of pilots with only piston time and most likely it will never be.
I would be VERY happy if we had shortage in Europe but I don't see it comming. There are to many pilots out there in order for it to become a shortage and every year new pilots get their license and joins our club.
Anyway good luck to everyone and I really hope you don't have to wait as long as I have so far for that job to come.
Ha det,
Margarita
31st Jan 2006, 23:15
Jimmy,
When the experienced pilots from GA works move onward to airlines it will naturally open jobs what you may be qualified etc...Just think positively, jobs are there!
737 f/o
2nd Feb 2006, 21:34
Got the job at FlyMe.... :}
737.pilot
3rd Feb 2006, 06:58
congratulations 737 f/o.....
Congrats!!!:ok:
Would've loved to be in your place, me being from the best-coast and all!!;)
737 f/o
3rd Feb 2006, 08:14
Tack så mycket!!:D
Jimmy The Big Greek
3rd Feb 2006, 09:20
737 f/o, did you have to pay for your typerating.
Heard that 2 guys from westair got job with flyme if they would pay for the rating
737 f/o
3rd Feb 2006, 09:51
Yes, I paid for the rating 2 years ago and today I have appr. 400h on type.. But I haven´t paid for the hours ;)
cool!
what is your total time?
737 f/o
3rd Feb 2006, 20:24
I have a total of approx. 1500h
FlyingCarpet
4th Feb 2006, 18:02
Yes, I paid for the rating 2 years ago and today I have appr. 400h on type.. But I haven´t paid for the hours ;)
May I ask you how you got the 400 hrs on type?
poonta
4th Feb 2006, 18:17
Grattis till jobbet! :)
Är på jakt efter en schysst skola at utbilda mig på, alla lovar guld och gröna skogar så man vet inte riktigt vad man ska välja.
Lycka till på FlyMe!
Mvh Pontus
737 f/o
4th Feb 2006, 20:52
I did get the hours on AirBaltic...
737.pilot
2nd Mar 2006, 07:55
Hej.
Are there other pilots out there who got a job with Flyme this month?:) Where are you gonna be based?
737.pilot