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Flight Crew Overview

Why work at Flight Express?

Line pilots earn a starting wage of $12 per duty hour (not flight hour). Minimum daily pay is $90. Minimum annual gross pay is approximately $23,400. Within three years a pilot could be making as much as $58,200.

Flight Express offers free ground and flight training, lodging during training, medical and dental plans, insurance, paid vacations and holidays, direct deposit and a 401(K) program.

New-hires are given a $1,000.00 bonus after successfully completing the initial Part 135 checkride. Lodging is covered for temporary duty assignments; for permanent duty assignments, transportation and housing are the responsibility of the line pilot.

Flight Express gives pilots an excellent opportunity to build a deep, strong foundation of professional-level instrument-commercial knowledge and skills in a challenging, demanding, real-world commercial aviation environment.

All pilots start in the Cessna 210 Centurion. Transition into the Baron occurs on the basis of need and availability.

Requirements

All applicants MUST be legal to work in the US. (Documentation will be reviewed and verified.)
All applicants MUST hold a US commercial pilot certificate or ATP certificate WITH SINGLE-ENGINE LAND privileges.
All applicants MUST hold a current FAA Class I or Class II medical certificate.
All applicants should possess a complex and high-performance PIC endorsement. (This may be waived if the applicant's other credentials are excellent.)
All applicants MUST meet the minimum aeronautical experience requirements of FAR 135.243(c). You will be required to produce a logbook or other acceptable record to prove this, and we will make a photocopy for our FAA records.
All applicants MUST be ready, willing and able to go to work right away upon the completion of training.
All applicants MUST be ready, willing and able to relocate to any base within our route structure upon the completion of training. Our route structure changes constantly. We are an on-demand operator; our schedule is set by the customer. Available runs and domiciles are in a continuous state of flux. They may change daily or even hourly. We cannot and will not guarantee runs or domiciles. We do not know where you will go when training is over; this cannot be predicted. Our area of operations spans most of the United States, from Florida to California, with new runs and bases added unpredictably.
All applicants MUST be PROFICIENT not just legally current on single-pilot cross-country IFR-PIC operations - using VOR and NDB navigation - in a complex, high-performance, single-engine airplane with no autopilot, no GPS and no airborne weather radar. Pilots who are not comfortable with this kind of flying are strongly discouraged from applying.

If you meet all eight of the requirements above, please e-mail the recruiter at: recruiter@flightexpress.com

Please include (or attach) a copy of your resume.

Also provide a breakdown of your logged flight time in the following categories:

Total Time
Cross Country (point-to-point, not 50 miles)
Night
Instrument

Finally, please state clearly in your e-mail that you have read the eight requirements above, that you fully understand them, and that you meet all eight of them.

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