It boggles my mind as to why Kimberly air tours advertised on afap. Wonder if guys with too much time will be knocked back automatically from this 206 gig.

There's nothing wrong with that .. probably due to the incumbent progressing on from the 206, in to something a little bigger after 2 years, and creating a new vacancy for the 206.

Now why would Ausjet need to advertise? They must get hundreds of CVs a year.

I bet it's because the majority of the CVs that pass the CPs desk are 200 hour guys with no experience. Which in reality is fine for flogging around in a 206 but put an ad on AFAP and all of a sudden guys with 402 time and the like all come out of the woodwork.

Guys like this need minimal training to upgrade and usually fly IFR already.

What the ad should say is,

Min 1000TT
Endorsed on either 402 or PA31
Two IFR renewals
Instructor rating

That's what they really want! Problem is if you write that for a 206 job you get branded a w$&ker and rightly so.

I would guess the lucky applicant has a CV closely resembling the criteria above.

Anyone got any interview dates yet?

Heard they had over 300 applicants. Hot damn

Don't know why they bother. Will probably just hire some friend of the ops managers brother/sister/next door neighbour!!

I heard once or twice that networking is pretty important in this game.

Anyone got an interview yet?

nope, doesn't look good for those who didn't get a 2nd follow up email

Is that on top of the one advising interview dates?

yep. so i'm sure the lucky few have been advised

Aparrently they have culled 370 applications down to 70 and tomorrow they will be culling it down to 40 and then sending out interview emails

All this trouble for a couple of 206 pilots??

So are the 40 selected pilots expected to go to Melbourne for interviews? Not on Skype/phone?

Serious Question...

How do you, and more importantly, why would you, short list 40 pilots in order to fill a Cessna 206 job?

Someone must have the information wrong, surely.

I am not associated with this employer and I don't know anyone applying for the position, but just a couple of thoughts from a Chief Pilot/employer perspective:

1/. If these guys are going to work remotely with minimal supervision you want switched on, motivated people. A CPL is not proof of that.

2/. This is a first job or a nearly-first job and only the biggest fwits have been filtered out at that level, usually at the flight training stage. There will be plenty of sub-optimal candidates amongst the applicants looking to get their first job.

2a/. There would also be people applying from the next level of experience with more hours and I bet they have only worked for each previous employer only 3-6 months and they're not listing their previous chief pilots as referees.

3/. A big pool of candidates provides an opportunity to select those with the best hours, best references, AND do a decent interview to filter out fwits. Persons in 2a have already been filtered by previous employers.

It might be "only a C206 job" but for that employer it is an important contract and represents an opportunity for the wrong candidate to ruin the company's reputation or destroy morale amongst their team.

Best of luck to all the candidates. :ok:

Apparently you know a lot more than most-What else will/can you share :}

got an interview for next week

So in answer to the question from the OP.

Is GA turning around?

370 applicants for a C206 job!

No it is probably worse that it has ever been.

Very good and well presented points there horatio. Flying a C206 maybe thought of by many as an entry level job, but the employer still wants the best person they can get to fill that position.