https://www.afap.org.au/pilot-jobs/p...0Air%20Captain

$74k - $87k??? Call the cops, that’s highway robbery! :yuk:

Ducking for cover here but is this not PC over the top?

• If you have a disability/medical condition and require a copy of this advertisement and attached documentation in an accessible format or would like to discuss an access requirements/reasonable adjustment for the recruitment process, please contact [email protected]

Or is there a condition that would mean one could not read this but still hold a class 1?

Yes pay seems a little low, however 6 weeks leave plus 4 mandatory rest days per year???

It is a gubment job to there are certain benefits.

However advertising to create a hold pool if you read it all.........

NSW Police pay more to fly their Caravan.

Beat me to it!

You guys are on drugs!

15.4% super, 6 weeks annual leave with a flexible roster.

Job security is all but guaranteed.

Is that not better then most other turbo prop jobs??

What is REX & QLink etc paying?

The surprise for me is no ATPL requirement for the 350 nor 2 crew

You mean bucket loads of night shift ! That’s why they give you 6 weeks off!

74k to fly a King Air about at all hours of the day and night? And you get to live in Canberra? I wonder if the flexibility is 2 way?

15.4% of 74k is still pretty low.

87k is nowhere near as good as other Turboprop jobs, the top tier of 87k here is pretty close or even below the lowest tier of RFDS and they’re struggling for pilots.

And job security is not guaranteed, a change in Government and cutbacks, and you may also find yourself out of work.

j3

Gee that's an appalling salary! Careflight are seeking Beech drivers and they offer $133K!
plenty of Guvmit admin positions would get similar and no shift work no medical no check & training! Kinda shows a pilot position is really more a trade than a professional position at that rate! YSCB would be the pits!
be interesting to see how many applied?

Probably a poor attempt by the AFP to stop its people from commuting suicide.

That comment is in very poor taste especially towards those of us in those kinds of organisations.

Poor taste, maybe. Accurate? Most definitely

Probably just part of the standard boilerplate text that goes with every job ad they list? The way I read it the total pay includes a 22% composite allowance, so that takes it up to $91k-$106k approximately, which is a bit (not a lot though) better.

It’s a better salary than most of the passengers you’re flying around and they may get shot at doing their job.

Whats to say I haven’t been?

The ADF pay their B350 copilots more than that. After they’ve trained them.

Not everyone is in a position to join the defence force. I’m certain this job would be perfectly suitable for many of the applicants.

They may indeed but they are asking for twin applicants... :)

$150-$160k, is that the going rate to pilot a Kingair with 1,500 hours on a CPL?

When did that become the norm?

You’d have to put it into perspective... they are probably not flying many hours per day and it would likely be fairly cruisey for the right candidate.

Squawk,

Firstly, drop the whole, ‘could get shot at’ holier than thou crap. No one forces anyone to do their jobs, it is a choice. Don’t like it? Stop doing it.

Secondly, are you seriously suggesting that the AFP is willing and ready to put a 1500hr CPL in charge of a 350 in a multirole, day/night, complex, dynamic and ‘flexible’ operation? Sounds really prudent...

The AFP may get applicants at the salary being offered. They may also go on to cost the AFP many many times their salary in mistakes and inefficiencies. When your salary is bottom of the barrel, so is the standard of applicant. How much does a hot section on a PT6 go for these days?

j3

The problem is that they can’t pay any more due to the salary band that they are tied to.

It’s not an airline; it’s practically a private operation. These fancy airline EBA’s and travel allowances simply don’t apply. I’m certain there are plenty of IFR twin pilots zipping around our skies for less than $100k!

Probably not in a B350.

Sorry, but that is just a ridiculously low salary for that job description. As has been said already, a hot section on a PT6 is worth more than half that years wage, and it’ll happen pretty quickly flying it single pilot with no experience on type.

If you have experience on type, you won’t be flying it for that little.

Whatever happened to their C208?

From what I understand, after speaking to someone in the know, this role, with overtime and loading will average around $120k. You also can’t lose your job and if you did, redundancy is massive. It’s a great addition to your resume as well.

As with most government jobs, it’s all in the overtime.

You obviously haven’t seen what they get up to ;-)

Ops would not be limited to ACT and it’s not just flying around passengers.

If only that was true! I’d love a job where I could never lose it, especially if I lost my medical or they outsourced their flying contracts, because that’s never happened before!

How does it compare????

https://www.pprune.org/australia-new...Niugini+salary

L3, Mag aerospace and a few others put low time guys in charge of 350’s doing similar jobs for the US DOD all over the world, not just flying circles around Victoria. That being said their pilots are being paid north of 160k USD 3 weeks on/off.