Flying the Caravan in Canada.

[justwanttofly]

Hi Folks,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows how many operators in Canada are running the Caravan two crew? Also, what the requirements are at most companies to fly the caravan single pilot? If you could provide the company names for both questions it would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

justwanttofly

[CD1]

Hey there

Most run them single pilot. It's a pretty basic aircraft to run two crew. I know there are a few that do though. Check out Pilotcareercentre.com they will have the info you're looking for.

http://pilotcareercentre.com/Search-Air ... rop/Canada

There's the link to all the operators who run Caravans. Not sure who is two crew or not. Hope this helps.

Chris

[DHQ]

Sander Geophysics runs them 2 crew.

[Captain_Canuck]

Sunwest does

[mathias_now]

Justwanttofly,

As far as I know Thunder Airlines, and Prince Edward Air does also. Not 100% sure on the hour requirements though. I don't know that I would personally want to fly single pilot ifr, and on top of that in a single engine aircraft. It's still to early for me to say for sure, as I'm still going through the commercial phase of my training.

Maybe you want to make a career flying around the Caravan? I know one guy who does that, and by the sounds of things besides living fairly north he has a pretty good schedule and makes a decent wage. I even had the chance to do some flights with him, and I must say it was pretty awesome. Good luck!

MN

[Brown Bear]

Wasaya uses two pilots. Wouldn't recommend going that route, though.

[mathias_now]

Does anyone know what kind of hours/experience companies such as Tindi, Alta-flights, or Nor-Alta are hiring their caravan captains with?

MN

[Bushav8er]

Alta-Flights: http://www.altaflights.com/careers.html
Nor-Alta: http://www.noraltaaviation.com/careers/

Where ever happen to searching for info at the places in question?

[mathias_now]

The requirements on both those sites are very vague. I doubt they are going to hire someone with 300hrs, 100PIC and cut them loose to fly their Caravan. I was hoping that someone at a company with a van would be able to provide more real life hour/experience requirements.

MN

[Koizie1]

I believe you need 1000hrs to fly SPIFR with passengers. If you've got that then you should apply where you want to work. Of course there are few operators that will set you loose unless you have some IFR experience as a copilot.

[wallypilot]

flying single pilot IFR without a good amount of experience is very silly.

Having said that, with appropriate experience, the van is a great IFR platform.

There are 2 things I would never do with a C208: 1. Fly in IMC over mountainous terrain (you only have one stove out front)
2. Fly when anything more than light icing is expected

Other than that, from my experience, it's a fantastic airplane.

[mathias_now]

Thanks for the advice. How does one get IFR experience if their goal is to fly as a career van driver? I guess they would have to fly a King Air or PC-12 two crew first or something.

MN

[boeingboy]

Sunwest runs single pilot (at least in YVR)

[ditar]

The requirements for the Caravan at Nor-Alta are 1000 hours total with some previous IFR experience. All flying is single pilot. Typically, Caravan spots are filled from within by those who have proven their IFR skills as a co-pilot for a year or so.

[cedar]

pm me justwantto fly and I will give you the low down