Bush Pilot Flying in Remote Alaska - Pilot Grant Aviation Employee Review

2.0
4 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Super fun flying! Beautiful scenery. Really fun coworkers! If you're social you'll love the dynamic. You live in crew houses for your shift and you develop your own work-family. Defintely the adventurous pilot job.

Cons

The company is pure chaos. If you don't know what's going on don't worry, management doesn't know either. Every decision is a last minute scramble. Low pay for piston pilots. Been here for about 7 months, averaging $3,300 net income per month. Caravan pilots make substantially more. You work a 2 week on/off schedule. So for single folks it's great. Harder to handle for people with families. Initial training experiences vary, and can be extremely slow. They only pay you $100/day if you do a training flight that day. Many of my fellow new hires sat around for almost 2 weeks, unpaid, not flying due to lack of aircraft and weather. Time building is slow for most piston pilots as they are limited to VFR only. Been here about 7 months, averaging 41 flight hours/month. Keep in mind you only work half the month. The flying can be very risky. Almost all the runways you operate on are small gravel strips. Depending on your base you will be flying around mountains and coastal areas quite a bit. Survival in an emergency is not quarenteed. Benefits are terrible. No 401K until you put in 1 year of work. Health care is average for the employee, but spouse and family coverage is either 4x or 6x more expensive than individual coverage. They are desparate for pilots and will hire anyone meeting the 500 hour VFR 135 PIC minimums. Sometimes the biggest hazard is your coworkers. Not much career advancement. Once you upgrade to the Caravan there isn't another upgrade opportunity for at least 10 years. Extremely high turnover rate. You whole crew house can be different people every 3 months.

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