[TallFlyer]

Dude! Don't give away all our secrets until I get back this summer and get a job yo!

Anyways, to add:

Hageland Aviation Services
They fly 207s, Caravans, Navajos, 406s, 1900s, and more out in the sticks. Good job, starting pay in the left seat of the 207 is $200/day, plus some hourly wage if you bust 60hrs in a month. Cass.

Expect two years in the 207 before you make it to the Caravan, expect a lot longer than that to make it to the 406. 1900s are now all on the Frontier certificate, and I think Frontier's Navajos are migrating to the Hageland cert. Very wild party life in the BET pilot house. Lots of native women coming in at all hours of the night sometimes making it necessary to call the cops.

Frontier Flying Service
They are actually combined with Hageland, but operating under different certs. They fly Beech 1900s, Navajos, and I think they've still got a couple of sleds around somewhere. Not sure on the pay. Cass.

All 1900s and Navajos, no sleds. Actually not CASS, because the owner doesn't want his pilots networking. Week on, week off schedule, pay similar to ACE.

Alaska Central Express
They fly part 135 Cargo, and pax charter, Beech 1900s. The pay starts at $25/hr in the right seat, and goes up to $50 after you upgrade, upgrade mins are 2000TT, 1000Type, or 3000TT and 500 in type, and to be on the good side of the CP (who's actually a pretty cool, and likeable guy, if not sometimes gruff). Good place to work, some pretty extreme flying. Gravel strips in the Hondo, and very very very ###### weather. I flew here last winter. Not Cass, limited non-rev privaleges.

Nothing to add except that I hope this is my next gig. Nobody better take my slot, but if you do apparently they will work you enough to where you will soon quit and I'll get in anyway.

Grant Aviation
They fly part 135 caravans/sleds/navajos/one kingair in the bush and in Anchorage, they pay $150/day and $20/hr (I think) for starting pay in the sled. Decent pay, and an excellent job, the schedule is 20-on 10-off, regardless of whether you're in town or not. Not Cass. This or hageland is where I'll probably go when I finish college.

The best CP I've worked for so far in my short career. Very laid back pilot house atmosphere in BET. Will accommodate a 15/15 schedule if you ask.

There are a few others, Warbelowes, Wrights, Aero Air, Guardian Flight, and then scores of Mom and Pop operators, JP Air in Bethel pays $6000/month from what I understand, but you have to live in bethel.

Warbelows is a good gig out of FAI; hope you like the cold. I believe one of their pilots is on this board. Don't know anything about Wrights. Aero and Guardian are medevac jobs.

In south east Alaska, Wings of Alaska is hiring into the 207 and the Caravan, its seasonal though. THere are also numerous float operators in south east if you've got a SES on your ticket. The best of which appears to be Promech (which supposedly pays $450/day, though that's just heresay) and Alaska Seaplanes, which is supposed to just be a good place to work.

There are a few places in SE that will be getting my resume as well. Expect the WX to be really crappy but a lot of the operators have Capstone Phase II (Chelton EFIS w/ synthetic terrain) so that would be nice. One of the larger operators down there was just shut down by the FAA not too long ago so some of the other folks might be growing. Even if you have an SES on your ticket don't expect a job flying floats if you're not familiar with the area. A good way to do that would be fly a season or two for an outfit (like Wings) that has both and hope they like you enough so that you can make a lateral move sometime down the road.

Further, there are some seasonal tour operators that operate out of Talkeetna (PATK) that are pretty cool gigs, and some more difficult to get jobs like Bering Air (supposedly the holy grail of AK jobs after Conoco Phillips Shared Services).

Bering will be getting my resume anyway for a SIC position. If any of you have any high performance tailwheel time and you always wanted to land on a glacier I'm sure K2 would love to hear from you.

As for mins. For a PIC slot, you'll need at least 1500TT to get into the 207 if you don't have any Alaska time, or else you'd need 1000TT and most of it AK time. Don't count on jumping into a a navajo or anything like you could down south. A company needs to trust you, and 2000TT doesn't really cut it unless they've known you for a while. That being said, if you get on board, expect the flying to be challenging enough day in and day out. I've got 2000TT and have an incredibly benign job relatively speaking, and am still forced to make some really difficult dicisions because the opSpecs and operations up here as well as weather are about as vague as it gets.

Nothing much to add other than to say that simply mailing, emailing, or faxing your resume up will most likely do you no good. Your only chance is actually showing up in some CP's office and hope they have a need. Oh, and don't wear a suit.

"Tuluksak Traffic, Hageland 3GV's 10 down river, inbound landing Tuluksak." Its just the way it is.

Oddly enough, I have about 90 hours in 3GV and once hauled 5 loads of bypass to Tuluksak in one day.

But don't worry, out west there's not much to hit.

True statement. Scud running in some places out west is not a huge deal, whereas down in the lower 48 it really freaks me out.