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pretty good from what i was told.
never managed to get a gig there.
it was another one of the rare companies that seemed to be paying well when virtually noone else was.
never managed to get a gig there.
it was another one of the rare companies that seemed to be paying well when virtually noone else was.
A mate is flying for them at the moment. He is getting approx 100 hours multi IFR per month so thats pretty good
. He seems to think they are pretty good and provide good oportunities for transfers etc. Min I think is about 1000TT. I have no personal experience with them, just what I have been told.
. He seems to think they are pretty good and provide good oportunities for transfers etc. Min I think is about 1000TT. I have no personal experience with them, just what I have been told.
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That is some CAO48 exemption - or he doesn't log it! 
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F.M.S - not the first time I have heard of guys doing over 100hrs a month.
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................Which rather tells you all you need to know. It is just another GA company................well said 'Plovett'
I've heard that if you want hrs then there's none better than GAM. Not sure what they are like these days but many years ago those early pilots where the 'yardsticks' as to what the 'real ' wx was like first thing in the morning at country strips, meaning if they couldn't get in via the 'twin windmill app' then nobody was!
Turbines now so a step in the right direction for the young.
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I've heard that if you want hrs then there's none better than GAM. Not sure what they are like these days but many years ago those early pilots where the 'yardsticks' as to what the 'real ' wx was like first thing in the morning at country strips, meaning if they couldn't get in via the 'twin windmill app' then nobody was!
Turbines now so a step in the right direction for the young.
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Your experience in GAM depends on the base. Melbourne and Cairns are sought after but at the moment Adelaide or Weipa would be the likely starting places. GAM operates under the ubiquitous CAO48 exemption so while 110 hours per month could be possible it would be very much the exception. There's no website.
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I can confirm the 110 multi-IFR hrs/month rumor as I did it myself. GAM operate under the Fatigue Management System (FMS) which has it's own flight and duty limits (exempt from CAO 48). In terms of flight limits, their pilots are only restricted to a maximum of 1080/year.
If you are lucky enough to get in with GAM, take the Weipa base. Best flying you'll ever do, especially in the wet. I did 430 hrs in 4.5 months which is an average of 95 hrs/month. All multi, all IFR. Beat that.
If you are lucky enough to get in with GAM, take the Weipa base. Best flying you'll ever do, especially in the wet. I did 430 hrs in 4.5 months which is an average of 95 hrs/month. All multi, all IFR. Beat that.
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.........................I did 430 hrs in 4.5 months which is an average of 95 hrs/month. All multi, all IFR. Beat that..........so that's what fatigue management is all about, 'beating' that hey?
So much for CAO 48 & it's insidious allowances to fly 'till you F
k up!
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So much for CAO 48 & it's insidious allowances to fly 'till you F
k up!CW
Under CAO 48 you can do 100 hours flying in 30 days, so I suppose if a month has 31 days it would be perfectly legal to do 109 hours for the month and log it.
Plenty of exemptions to CAO48, but the RFDS used to have an exemption that put you standby for 24 hours and that could be done for 10 days straight, if you got called out you could then do a tour of duty of up to 14 hours and 9 hours flying, then have a 14 hour break. Likewise they could work you for 14 days and only require you to have 2 days off in 14 days if you actually flew.
First RPT job logged a 100 hours a month for the first 8 months due to the pilots dispute. Over the 3 years averaged 900 hours a year.
Next RPT job was with a NSW operator with a CAO48 exemption, straight forward run but you did a morning flight out and back, knocked off for six hours, and then repeated that in the late afternoon Monday thru to Friday, that was a lot more tiring and fatigue inducing than compared to night freight or air ambulance.
Plenty of exemptions to CAO48, but the RFDS used to have an exemption that put you standby for 24 hours and that could be done for 10 days straight, if you got called out you could then do a tour of duty of up to 14 hours and 9 hours flying, then have a 14 hour break. Likewise they could work you for 14 days and only require you to have 2 days off in 14 days if you actually flew.
First RPT job logged a 100 hours a month for the first 8 months due to the pilots dispute. Over the 3 years averaged 900 hours a year.
Next RPT job was with a NSW operator with a CAO48 exemption, straight forward run but you did a morning flight out and back, knocked off for six hours, and then repeated that in the late afternoon Monday thru to Friday, that was a lot more tiring and fatigue inducing than compared to night freight or air ambulance.
