Float pilot pay
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Float pilot pay
Just hoping some people could chime in with different examples of float pilot pay. Please post the region and aircraft type thanks!
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Wow, I was doing better than that 8 years ago on a 180. I thought there was a pilot shortage, guess not.
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Reecered, sounds like you need to start job searching, more money to be made elsewhere. Let's help him out everybody, where would a low-ish time float pilot find a good job?
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I'm making a bit more than that in the same part of the country. I also have zero camp work to do; all I do is fly and help load the Otter when I'm around.
I also get real days off, and they've been good about letting me go for vacation.
If you guys know of any of these mythical $5000 a month, 500TT/250float, C185 jobs, let's hear it lol.
I also get real days off, and they've been good about letting me go for vacation.
If you guys know of any of these mythical $5000 a month, 500TT/250float, C185 jobs, let's hear it lol.
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We had a hell of a time finding a dockhand this year....
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The best job I've seen posted so far was in Fiji flying a beaver. It paid 100k Canadian per year and you needed 500hrs on a Beaver to qualify. A friend of a friend was coming home after a couple year stint, hence the opening. It was apparently a great place to work, ferrying tourists around to the islands.
Lots of jobs for float flying posted over the last year but the pay is never included so its hard to know.
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Lots of jobs for float flying posted over the last year but the pay is never included so its hard to know.
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2015: Super cub/180 in NWO living at camp w/food, accommodations and the occasional evening fishing trip in one of the tinners = $3000/month
2016: 185/Beaver in South eastern MB w/accommodations, the odd fishing trip to an outpost and a decent afterwork lifestyle in town = $3500/$4500 month
It's not always how much you make, it's the lifestyle that comes with it
2016: 185/Beaver in South eastern MB w/accommodations, the odd fishing trip to an outpost and a decent afterwork lifestyle in town = $3500/$4500 month
It's not always how much you make, it's the lifestyle that comes with it
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Am doing 16000USD/mnth with Maldivian (IASL) in Maldives - skipper on a floating Hog!
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HOWWWW DO I GET TO THE MALDIVES TO FLY?!?Floatinghog wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:45 am Am doing 16000USD/mnth with Maldivian (IASL) in Maldives - skipper on a floating Hog!
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You are making almost 200,000 Canadian flying a sea plane?Am doing 16000USD/mnth with Maldivian (IASL) in Maldives - skipper on a floating Hog!
And what is a floating hog?
Is it a Twin Otter on floats?
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$5000 a month on a DHC2 with accommodations in northern Ontario in a decent town. First solo float gig, got to skip the 185 thang.
Heard those days were long gone? My DHC6 captain who used to be down there was doing $10,000 USD a month.Floatinghog wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:45 am Am doing 16000USD/mnth with Maldivian (IASL) in Maldives - skipper on a floating Hog!
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DHC2 - $275/Day
DHC3T - $350/Day
Food/Accom provided
NWO
DHC3T - $350/Day
Food/Accom provided
NWO
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It's a fucked up world when I used to make $600/day in the patch flicking switches on a pump rig...
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Maybe it is because neither job requires all that much skill to do and flying attracts those who see it as exciting switch flicking?It's a fucked up world when I used to make $600/day in the patch flicking switches on a pump rig...
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We were salary but changed to a daily rate. For the beaver, if they want to work 20 days out of the month, that's $5500. 25 is $6875. And the days off aren't sitting around base. Go home see your wife/gf/bf yada yada. We think it's pretty fair. Not sure why you'd compare flying to working in the oil sands....TheRealMcCoy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:31 amIt's a fucked up world when I used to make $600/day in the patch flicking switches on a pump rig...
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I’ll second that Fiji salary. Maybe 70k Fiji dollars.
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