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12-22-2018, 11:21 AM
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Joined APC: May 2015
Posts: 36
There’s no cookie cutter career path to a G650 and lots of bizjet pilots have diverse backgrounds.
The quickest way would be to get your CFI/CFII and MEI and then get hired on with flight safety or CAE as a sim instructor.
That will give you the opportunity to hang out and network with pilots who already have the job. That’s how you’ll get hired.
There’s lots of info on here about pay and QOL. Searching should answer your questions. To summarize: Short term pay is typically better flying corporate, with airlines winning out over the span of a career. QOL can either be amazing or terrible depending on who owns the jet you’re flying. Same with job security. Part 91 is typically better than Part 135 or you’re into light jets
The quickest way would be to get your CFI/CFII and MEI and then get hired on with flight safety or CAE as a sim instructor.
That will give you the opportunity to hang out and network with pilots who already have the job. That’s how you’ll get hired.
There’s lots of info on here about pay and QOL. Searching should answer your questions. To summarize: Short term pay is typically better flying corporate, with airlines winning out over the span of a career. QOL can either be amazing or terrible depending on who owns the jet you’re flying. Same with job security. Part 91 is typically better than Part 135 or you’re into light jets
12-22-2018, 12:47 PM
#3
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Joined APC: May 2010
Position: Baja Vermont
Posts: 5,196
There’s as many “route”as there are corporate pilots. My department had guys hired thru connections in the military, others were furloughed airline pilots who liked it and stayed, some came from other corporate jobs.
Departments are very individual, especially as compared to airlines. Much depends on the company culture, leadership, department “mission”. Extraction businesses tend to spend lots of time in god forsaken locations; family-owned departments might have short business trips with a few long vacation trips thrown in every year; corporations with international business will fly overseas a lot; domestic companies flying Lears might do day trips.
Sim instructing is one way, but not the only one.
GF
Departments are very individual, especially as compared to airlines. Much depends on the company culture, leadership, department “mission”. Extraction businesses tend to spend lots of time in god forsaken locations; family-owned departments might have short business trips with a few long vacation trips thrown in every year; corporations with international business will fly overseas a lot; domestic companies flying Lears might do day trips.
Sim instructing is one way, but not the only one.
GF
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