Does anyone have any information on Arctic Sunwest Charters.
Do they bring guys up from the ramp?
What kind of conditions ?
Any lil bit of info would be great
Arctic Sunwest
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wallypilot
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these links might be helpful. they don't answer all your questions, but it's a start.
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... ic+sunwest
and a piece off another discussion re: yellowknife:
Tindi, Arctic Sunwest are the main reason guys come up to YZF. Tindi currently has around 30 guys on the ramp/dispatch/load masters waiting for a job to fly. I hear that after 2 years they will PPC you on the twin otter, and give you 2 choices, leave or wait another year to get a full-time flying position. This means 3 years on the ramp for tindi before a full-time flying job. Arctic Sunwest is going through some facility expansions, and getting another Buffalo. The days of 6 months on the ramp at ASC is over, they have not added any a/c for awhile except for the buffalo coming this spring. Your looking at about 2 years ramp now at ASC. Keep in mind that moving to YZF wont get you a job on the ramp the first week your here. Expect 1 year to bug the CP's to give you a ramp job as there is many low-timers up here and usually 2 or 3 guys waiting to talk to the CP in the morning around 7 am. Get my drift boys, go some where else, YK is expensive, cold, and saturated with low timers. Pack your truck up with a camper and move to northern ontario and bug the smaller operators. I've been in Yk for six months, have lots of industry related experience, and and sick and tired of the BS involved with entry level jobs. I wish I moved to northern ontario, flew a 185, and slowly built my time. If your wondering about the smaller companies like Summit, Adlair, Northwestern Air Lease, they are usually a faster move to flying but turn over is slow. You need to really get to know all the owners in order to get them to give you a job.
another cut and paste:
tindi and sunwest was 1800 a month
buffalo was 1500 for the first three than 2000
summit was 15 an hour
nwal was 2000 the 2300 after 3 month
and finally one more that seems a little relevant;
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... ic+sunwest
hope this is some help. you might want to search the forums. there is often lots of discussion in the previous month about things like this. especially in the spring! also, this info is a couple months old, but probably still fairly accurate.
cheers
wp
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... ic+sunwest
and a piece off another discussion re: yellowknife:
Tindi, Arctic Sunwest are the main reason guys come up to YZF. Tindi currently has around 30 guys on the ramp/dispatch/load masters waiting for a job to fly. I hear that after 2 years they will PPC you on the twin otter, and give you 2 choices, leave or wait another year to get a full-time flying position. This means 3 years on the ramp for tindi before a full-time flying job. Arctic Sunwest is going through some facility expansions, and getting another Buffalo. The days of 6 months on the ramp at ASC is over, they have not added any a/c for awhile except for the buffalo coming this spring. Your looking at about 2 years ramp now at ASC. Keep in mind that moving to YZF wont get you a job on the ramp the first week your here. Expect 1 year to bug the CP's to give you a ramp job as there is many low-timers up here and usually 2 or 3 guys waiting to talk to the CP in the morning around 7 am. Get my drift boys, go some where else, YK is expensive, cold, and saturated with low timers. Pack your truck up with a camper and move to northern ontario and bug the smaller operators. I've been in Yk for six months, have lots of industry related experience, and and sick and tired of the BS involved with entry level jobs. I wish I moved to northern ontario, flew a 185, and slowly built my time. If your wondering about the smaller companies like Summit, Adlair, Northwestern Air Lease, they are usually a faster move to flying but turn over is slow. You need to really get to know all the owners in order to get them to give you a job.
another cut and paste:
tindi and sunwest was 1800 a month
buffalo was 1500 for the first three than 2000
summit was 15 an hour
nwal was 2000 the 2300 after 3 month
and finally one more that seems a little relevant;
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... ic+sunwest
hope this is some help. you might want to search the forums. there is often lots of discussion in the previous month about things like this. especially in the spring! also, this info is a couple months old, but probably still fairly accurate.
cheers
wp
he's right
I've have recently been hired with one of the above mentioned companies and everything that the guy before me just wrote is accurate. Yellowknife is expensive, the wait on the ramp is long, but there are great companies here, the summer is looking wonderful so far, and all the people I've met so far are great. This gig is not for everyone, but it's still a good gig.
Yellowknife
This is in reply to wallypilot's discussion about Yellowknife. He's right on the money. I think there are more pilots working at Wallmart in YZF than at the airport.
My advice is to consider some other place than Yellowknife for your first job. My most enjoyable flying I have done in my career was in the NWT, but it wasn't in YZF. I flew for a small operator out of Fort Smith called Big River Air and got some priceless experience out of it. The Chief Pilot is Trevor Wever, and it would be worthwhile for you to give him a call. He's a face-to-face kind of guy, so just faxing a resume won't cut it. I have forgotten the telephone number, but the website is http://www.bigriverair.com.
Hope this helps
My advice is to consider some other place than Yellowknife for your first job. My most enjoyable flying I have done in my career was in the NWT, but it wasn't in YZF. I flew for a small operator out of Fort Smith called Big River Air and got some priceless experience out of it. The Chief Pilot is Trevor Wever, and it would be worthwhile for you to give him a call. He's a face-to-face kind of guy, so just faxing a resume won't cut it. I have forgotten the telephone number, but the website is http://www.bigriverair.com.
Hope this helps
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pilots at walmart
All that being said about waiting to get a job up here, Sunwest has posted on here for rampies and Summit Aviation had an ad in the local paper this week looking for a tech records person, if you can turn a wrench there they will like you even more!
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