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Texasspilot · November 9th, 2007, 19:08

I flew airam for the almost the last year. It was a great job. VERY VERY Rewarding. Pay was decent and schedule was ok. Most places do 7on7off with 12 hour shifts. Your 12 hours is usually at the airport. Our launch time was wheels up in less than 15 minutes from the time we got the call.

King air 90 which is a cool little plane in and out of small runways always in the worst of the weather be it storms or ice or heat or cold and the chance to get to really work with a team and have a mission was great. Unfortunatly the job was 400 miles from where I wanted to live and the commute wore on me. If it was closer to home I probably wouldn't have left that job.

The airam stuff in larger cities is usually pretty mundane hospital transfer stuff though my buddy does it for a childrens hospital and he says its pretty sad when your flying these kids home to spend there last few days alive with there families. Many companies operating small kingairs will have you based in BFE. My company did probably 50 percent scene flights and some of those were really hard to look at. Especially little kids in car or farm accidents.

I never had anybody die on my plane but they have died while loading or unloading. Ocassionaly you will have to help the medics during packaging the patient and maybe bagging them or applying pressure to certain areas while loading or unloading.

Its not a time building job. My buddies probably doin 200 hours a year. I was doing about 600.

November 9th, 2007, 19:08	#16
Texasspilot Old Skool Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,066	Re: Any air ambulance pilots on here? I flew airam for the almost the last year. It was a great job. VERY VERY Rewarding. Pay was decent and schedule was ok. Most places do 7on7off with 12 hour shifts. Your 12 hours is usually at the airport. Our launch time was wheels up in less than 15 minutes from the time we got the call. King air 90 which is a cool little plane in and out of small runways always in the worst of the weather be it storms or ice or heat or cold and the chance to get to really work with a team and have a mission was great. Unfortunatly the job was 400 miles from where I wanted to live and the commute wore on me. If it was closer to home I probably wouldn't have left that job. The airam stuff in larger cities is usually pretty mundane hospital transfer stuff though my buddy does it for a childrens hospital and he says its pretty sad when your flying these kids home to spend there last few days alive with there families. Many companies operating small kingairs will have you based in BFE. My company did probably 50 percent scene flights and some of those were really hard to look at. Especially little kids in car or farm accidents. I never had anybody die on my plane but they have died while loading or unloading. Ocassionaly you will have to help the medics during packaging the patient and maybe bagging them or applying pressure to certain areas while loading or unloading. Its not a time building job. My buddies probably doin 200 hours a year. I was doing about 600.