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I dropped chutes for a bit and was lucky enough to get in with a company that did pay you for your time. A 6 day week got you $900 before tax and Super. My decisions to ground a plane or not fly due weather were never questioned.
There are 2 other drop zone operations on the East Coast of Australia that have the same sort of pay and conditions. The one I worked for and the other 2 have multiple locations and primarily fly turbine single engine aircraft. They are run as a business and hence they pay.
If you are flying for a club then you don't get paid. That's the whole idea of a club. That said if its a club you fly for then you don't pay any training costs either. The job I had, asked you to pay the cost of the turbine rating up front which you got back after certain period of time. This was only done because in the past people had got a free endo and then ran off 6 weeks later when they had 150 hours turbine.
There are 2 other drop zone operations on the East Coast of Australia that have the same sort of pay and conditions. The one I worked for and the other 2 have multiple locations and primarily fly turbine single engine aircraft. They are run as a business and hence they pay.
If you are flying for a club then you don't get paid. That's the whole idea of a club. That said if its a club you fly for then you don't pay any training costs either. The job I had, asked you to pay the cost of the turbine rating up front which you got back after certain period of time. This was only done because in the past people had got a free endo and then ran off 6 weeks later when they had 150 hours turbine.
