Cessna Caravan time-building
 

If for some strange reason, you specifically wanted to build time on the 'van, which company would you fly for? Slingair? Hinterland? Anyone else?

Try any large Skydiving outfit?

caravan time
 

what sort of hours do you have - Aboriginal Airservices you should try, but prepare to be based in and out of hooker creek - heaps of hours though.

Aye,dat ooka creek place, he orite aye. :} Even the nurses look after there, aint that right aero 979? :}
hows that cold country going bloke?

sorry kids but hooker creeks taken.
;)

And from my short stay there............... your welcome to it. :eek:
Gotta love that tug though. :}

Don't have any hours on one yet, I'd just like some. I've got a few thousand hours on choppers...Been in and out of aboriginal communities for 4 years and there's worse places to be (although haven't been to Hooker Ck... certainly has a certain charming ring to it, though :E ).

Thanks for the tips. Had forgotten about jumping ops, not a bad lead. Cheers all.

Where exactly? :uhoh:

Maudlin there was skydiveing mob in Cairns advertising for 208 drivers recently, can't recall the full details though, might be worth a try.

Skydive Cairns,

They are always looking for drivers, Think the advert went like this:

Jump pilot required, 800TT min, skydiving exp prefered, award wage (neg).

Worth a look, but am told by several skydivers that they do go through their drivers up there.

Not sure if its the same mob, but one of the CNS based jump operators were advertising for drivers and when I rang up they informed me I would have to pay for the endo, and then get this bit, I would be bonded for 12 (could have been 6) Mnths. Bonded for what I couldn't figure. the money wasn't that flash either, so I said no thanks and left it at that.

There's now 50 C208 in Australia. You have wide choice!

Sunny Woomera


P.S. Just testing to see if the children are awake!

:} :} A wide WHAT????? :} :}

Rhymes with noice :ok:

Oh you boise aren't being noise... ;)

Thanks Woomera, I'll look up the CASA aircraft rego page and, CMN, I'll check up with Skydive Cairns. Cheers.

Confirms what I said, they have problems holding onto pilots, so they try to bond you. Also knew about the endorsement (kinda guess that was a given)

What hours do they give?

no worries maudlin let us know how it goes!

CNM:ok:

There is a Cairns based operator (name escapes me at the moment), that have the Nth QLD mail run contract and they run Caravans, might be worthwhile checking them out ;)

Mob I heard about in QLD had you paying for endo and then icus at a set rate an hour in a pvt op. , with a small retainer I think if I remember correctly.

Hinterland - what are they looking at for exp for 208 drivers?

Does anyone know how many punters you can have on board during a private flight?

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Mr. Buzzy, you sure are persistent !!!