Breaking into a Part-Time Gig?

[cachocat]

I have a good day job, but I'm looking to get my commercial rating later this year along with my multi-engine. I already have my instrument rating and about 370 total hours (lots of PIC and XC).

I'm not looking to change careers, but I'd like to start poking around to get educated on what part-time niches might be out there in the marketplace. A few evenings per week, weekends, etc.

I've reviewed a lot of the postings on the forums and they tend to be more full-time/career oriented. I live in the Phoenix area, so I'm guessing there would be a good mix of opportunities, but I need to start learning where and how to begin looking for them.

[N826AW]

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Originally Posted by cachocat

I have a good day job, but I'm looking to get my commercial rating later this year along with my multi-engine. I already have my instrument rating and about 370 total hours (lots of PIC and XC).</p>
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<p>I'm not looking to change careers, but I'd like to start poking around to get educated on what part-time niches might be out there in the marketplace. A few evenings per week, weekends, etc.</p>
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<p>I've reviewed a lot of the postings on the forums and they tend to be more full-time/career oriented. I live in the Phoenix area, so I'm guessing there would be a good mix of opportunities, but I need to start learning where and how to begin looking for them.

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Traffic watch? There's a company out of SDL that does it for the Phoenix area.

[cfii2007]

I can't remember, but there was some sort of traffic watch outfit at KSDL, paid around $13 per hour.

[youngflyer]

Why dont you get your CFI. That would be a good part time job if you had maybe 1 or 2 students.

[Boris Badenov]

Some of the checkhaulers have some pretty part-time runs. I know of a Flight Express run that gets minimum pay (~25k I think) for flying STL-SGF-STL with no layover 5 times a week. That flying isn't going to go on forever, though. Another thing might be a van run for one of the fedex operators. I've heard memphis has a bunch of out-and-backs that are pretty easy, although they might require a layover, I don't know.

Aside from that, though, you're going to have a hard time finding part time work in cargo, I'd imagine. You might look in to part 91 bizjets in your area.

[wheelsup]

Airnet was hiring part time pilots but you need 135 IFR mins. They even said 6-8 days a month was fine. I think they really needed guys though. With the slowdown in hiring this might disappear.

At 370ish hours what you're looking for is banner towing, CFI'ing, pipeline, or traffic watch gigs.

[mikecweb]

Originally Posted by wheelsup

Airnet was hiring part time pilots but you need 135 IFR mins. They even said 6-8 days a month was fine. I think they really needed guys though. With the slowdown in hiring this might disappear.

At 370ish hours what you're looking for is banner towing, CFI'ing, pipeline, or traffic watch gigs.

To my knowledge that never happened.

[wheelsup]

"We look at the PT flying on a case by case basis. Seems like 6-7 days would work." Directly from pilotjobs@airnet.com

But, like you said I have no idea if they actually hired anyone to work part time there. But they definitely were looking about 6 months ago.