Float pilot pay

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Re: Float pilot pay

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TheRealMcCoy wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 6:48 pm
Floatinghog wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:45 am Am doing 16000USD/mnth with Maldivian (IASL) in Maldives - skipper on a floating Hog!
Heard those days were long gone? My DHC6 captain who used to be down there was doing $10,000 USD a month.
Ya heard wrong bubba - high time float drivers can name their rate - 16k/mnth is all in no extras - that covers txts in/out and accomodation after all that is paid I’m saving about 12-13k/mnth balls to the wall flying, after a season I’m done, need a few weeks off in Thailand to get all caught up on pussy and booze before heading back up north for the fishing season.
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Cat Driver wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:59 pm
Am doing 16000USD/mnth with Maldivian (IASL) in Maldives - skipper on a floating Hog!
You are making almost 200,000 Canadian flying a sea plane?

And what is a floating hog?

Is it a Twin Otter on floats?
Howdy Cat, not doing the whole year - just the winter season 5 to 5.5 months long. Ya, Floating Hog is a Hog on floats, was CAPs earlire now Wips - we luv to call our DHC-6s Hogs... best ship out there for what we do... the 16k/mnth is all in incld. Accoms and txts in/out - after all said and done prob about 12-13k/mnth take home and 110hours a mnth there are a few other things guaranteed in life other then just taxes and death... 110 a month on the Hog is hard but fun work!
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Re: Float pilot pay

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That sounds like a good job with lots of time off.

It has been a long time since I flew them but I do recall they were real manoeuvrable on the water, the first flying I did with them was in the mid seventies with Air West Airlines in Vancouver.

I sort of got roped into the job through a friend of mine who asked me if I would spent the winter as their chief pilot so I decided to do it and it was interesting except for the boredom of flying the same old trips over and over.

They had six Twin Otters and two Turbo Goose's that were anything but boring to operate. :mrgreen:

And of course there were the single engine machines they used all around this area.
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Re: Float pilot pay

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Beaver driver in Atlin, BC was making $12,000/month with Tintina Air this season.

Challenging flying though, deserving of 12k a month I'd say.
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Re: Float pilot pay

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How much float time does it take these days to make a wage worth a dam?

A Season on a 185, or more like 5...
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Re: Float pilot pay

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Define a decent wage?
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I want to hear more about this $12,000/month Beaver job in Atlin.
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2000 DHC II. $5000 3weeks on 1 week off
2001 ditto
2003 DHC II $5500 3 weeks on 1 off
2004 DHC III piston otter $7000 treated like a dog
2005 DHC III turbo otter $7500 6 days on 1 day off
2006 DHC III ditto
2007 DHC III $7800 5 and 2
2008 DHC III $8000 5 & 2
2009 bird dog. 4 month 40grand
2010 bird dog 4 month 44 grand
2011 bird dog 215 FO 4.5 months 51 grand
2012 ditto
2013 bird dog 215 Capt. 4.5 months 54.5
2014 ditto
2015 ditto
2016 Otter 11.5 grand 5 months max duty
2017 Otter 13.2 grand max duty
2018 Otter and Van. 15 grand max duty.

There's ten more years but there's a synopsis of one driver. You can't guarantee tips so not listed.
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Thanks round pounder! Probably the most helpful post I've seen anyone out side of company management put in terms of what to expect out there!
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Now what companies are those so I can apply haha?
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Better than my $1200/month for the 185 in 2003 in NWO
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Re: Float pilot pay

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2015 - Dockhand 3000$/month accommodation and food included
2016 PA22 campcheck pilot 2500$/month no accommodation and no food. But lots of free time and not a lot of bs to put up with and I was in a city instead of being in the middle of the bush with no road access.

Then I had a job on big wheels for the winter for 3000$/month same conditions as the PA22 job

2017 I sold my soul because I wanted to fly a beaver and make more cash than a guy I didn't like (yeah I know what can I say...). Beaver 4500$ tips were ok but not great I was averaging 300$/month. Accommodations included (really nice on top of that). The job had a couple other perks. But a ton of downsides as well.

Now I'm no longer on floats but still in the bush and the money is better than that.
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2019. $12,500
2020. $12,500

I’ve come down in wages. But. I have a life now. Otter and supervan
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