Is GA turning around?
 

Advertised today on AFAP a FIFO job with Ausjet based in Brisbane.
Whilst not exactly bare CPL, reasonable requirements that don't require one to be ex RAAF fighter jock or 14 squillion hour ex airline captain.

350 TT
100 command including ICUS
20 Night command including ICUS

MECIR and Instructor rating desirable.

Does anyone know of this company?
Is there a reason the minimums are so low, or are we finally seeing a demand for pilots again?
Unfortunately being one of those poor souls that cannot up and move at the drop of a hat I won't be applying despite meeting the minimums.

Go to it boys and girls!

Australasian Jet is quite a well-known operator across the country. The 206 job advertised is excellent flying, plenty of hours, and the company treats the pilots very well while out on "deployment".

saw that ad and it made me happy, still 100 hours too many but might provide job number 2 for some people freeing up first job opportunities for me

One decent job ad and suddenly GA is turning around? Onya kids.

put the application in, any idea if there is a chance for progression within the company?

BlatantLiar, the question was IS.....GA turning around?
Now how was that comment helpful? Oh and I'm 32.

Kids.

Forget the low minimums. Whoever gets this gig will have considerably more time than 350 hours.

Para droppers and cattle station pilots and instructors would be chomping at the bit to get a gig out of a capital city. Austjet have historically had a 700 hour min for entry level jobs. I would suspect the aircraft is under Ausjets AOC but the company doing the FIFO work isn't Ausjet themselves.

If I'm wrong then that's ok but I don't think Ausjet would do FIFO with a 206 (even though they do own a couple I think) when they have at least 3 PA31's and at least 1 C402.

They call themselves 'Ausjet' and the ad is for a 206 pilot? Yeah, GA is really turning around.

Now who is going to apply without meeting the requirements? Bet the chief pilot will love that.

My point exactly. One job ad prompts you to ask the question?

Yeah, you're a kid.

Actually Blatant liar.. there is a slow upturn going on..quite a few ads appearing throughout the experience / hours requirements which means people will move up opening the door for newbies. Not sure if it will turn into the rush of a few years back, but there is certainly more movement than I've seen in 12 months or so just in frequency and numbers of ads and the word on the street i.e non advertised positions I'm hearing about..

A 23 year old "kid" didn't do a bad job in the duchess yesterday..

Sheesh!

They do have Jets
 

I don't really know much about these guys, but a quick look at their aircraft registry listing states they own 18 aircraft and operate 21, including at least 3 Citation's (With their name as owner, operator or both).
They also have access to G450, Hawker 800 and Legacy 600.

like i said in a previous post I am 100 short on TT but if I was only short on night time and PIC I'd apply with the caveat that I would get the time before starting if they were interested.

As it stands I think an application that is 100 short on total time would be quite rightly sent to the circular filing cabinet so won't waste my time or the CPs

Quite a well known company if you fly from Essendon and with quite an impressive fleet.

AusJet | AusJet is a highly specialised aviation company providing services to government, corporate and private entities alike, across Australia and Internationally.

you don't chomp at the bit champ, you champ at it...

Jet 206???

Is GA turning around?
 

Power line survey all around qld.

If it does turn around it's only going to run head on into the pile of crap it left behind. Forward and take control; while there is some semblance of 'industry' remaining. As the Brit's discovered during the Blitz - living in a bunker is no type of life at all.

I did some work for OzJet back in the 90's when I used to freelance around EN& ML, good operator & way back then there was more work than pilots sometimes.
Good to see even a small ray of sunshine for some youngin':-):ok:

Wmk3

My guess is the applicant count will exceed 100.

I recently spoke to an operator out of Kununurra that advertised on AFAP, they had over 220 applicants for a scenic gig in an Airvan, I suspect out of a major city to be more than that! I personally know at least 3 people with decent tim (around 1000 hrs)one of them including Jetstream time applying.

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.