This one sounds just what u are looking for I am packing my bags as we speak You head on over and let me know how it is going

Subject: Fwd: Fw: US firm recruiting mercenary pilots for Afghanistan
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Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 7:42 PM
Who says there's no job opportunities?
Subject: US firm recruiting mercenary pilots for Afghanistan

DC-3 Airplane Pilot needed overseas

Company: Aerotek
Location: Middle East
Category: Aviation Jobs
Rate: $130,000 to $140,000 per Year + 35% danger and 35% post differential
Job Type: Direct Placement
Posting ID: 1581314
DC-3 Airplane Pilot needed overseas Job Description:
Military subcontractor currently has 4 openings available for 4 DC-3 Airplane Pilots overseas.

Position Overview:
Operates DC3 BT-67 airplane in support of approved missions in Afghanistan.

Education Required:
A high school diploma or equivalent is mandatory. An Associate Degree or higher is preferred.

Experience Required:
FAA Commercial and Instrument Certificate, with Multi Engine type rating of aircraft over 12,500 pounds; CFI/II Multi-engine Instrument certification with 2,500 Fixed Wing flight hours and 1,000 hours turbine time.

Special Knowledge/Skills Required:
1. Employee qualification in DC3 BT-67 is required prior to assignment.
2. Individual will be qualified and must maintain currency and proficiency with Night Vision Goggles (NVG) as a condition of employment.
3. An FAA CFI or CFII rating in type and category or a military Instructor Pilot (IP) or Standardization Pilot (SP) rating is desired.
4. During training and throughout the employment period, the individual must demonstrate and maintain proficiency in understanding aircraft systems, components, and operating limitations as well as understanding and complying with regulations and policies.
5. Individual must possess a thorough knowledge of FAA, ICAO policy and regulations pertinent to the operational requirement.
6. The individual must be able to attain and retain a SECRET CLEARANCE as a condition of employment.
7. Employees must provide documentation of completion for any manufacturer's course of instruction, military flight training or instruction in other aircraft.
8. DC-3 instructor experience is desired. Instructor Pilot applicants must have documentation showing proof of successful completion of a Certified Flight Instructor qualification or an equivalent military qualification.

Work Environment:
1. Pilots will be required to work and live in a potentially hostile environment, at remote locations, under austere conditions.
2. Pilots may be required to respond to a wide variety of operational circumstances, under extreme weather conditions, within a hostile environment.
3. The pilot will perform duties in garrison, under tactical field conditions and on board airplanes within a hostile environment.

For more in depth information about principle responsibilities, special knowledge/skills required, work environment and physical requirements please contact:

Ken Malines
Aerotek Aviation
888-455-1329
Ken Malines
Senior Recruiter
South East Recruiter Lead Mgr.
(Ph) 321-354-1040
(Fax) 321-354-1140
(Toll Free) 888-455-1329 <http://www.aerotek.com/ >
3660 Maguire Blvd. Suite 107
Orlando, Fl. 32779 <http://www.aerotek.com/ > www.aerotek.com

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No problem. See ya there Don. It'll be like the movie, "Secondhand Lions."

All my old Casa 212's are over there working, minus one that flew into a box canyon. I did not go over with the airplanes, but the company wined and dined big time to get me to. And the pay offered was about twice what this bunch is doling out.

Gump

I've got like 1500 hours in threes plus some of the other requirements. If I wasn't married now with two kids, I'd be all over that.

"potentially hostile environment, at remote locations, under austere conditions."

When you look up the definition of "euphemism" in the dictionary, this should be it. That's like saying Wyoming is breezy.

I passed on the chance in the early '80's. A nephew of Richard Helms (a past director of the CIA ) was married to a member of the exiled royal Afghan family. The Russkies were beating up on them, and we wern't shipping them Stinger missles, yet. I was a Pterodactyl ultralight dealer and pilot, it was the best in off airport ops and also broke down/transported extremely compactly.

They hired me because of the very similar terrain here as compared to over there. They gave me various tasks to fly: coming in deadstick over a mt. top packing a weight that was the same as a certain anti tank rocket (TOW, I think it was called), flying up river canyons and popping up and shooting model rockets (didn't have real ones.) This was all taped and the vids sent "over there". The nephew seemed to have unusual access to a lot of information on these weapons, including a catalog of sorts that he never let me look at closely. He had just graduated from Harvard with an accounting degree, and I have no idea if he was in the family business or due to his marriage had decided to try and help the Afghans on his own. I do know I was being paid well and having a lot of fun.

I trained the nephew to fly it, sold him one, and then he offered to set me up with a trip over there to assist with smuggling in a large number of these ultralights over the Kyber Pass from Pakistan, mostly in making sure they wern't damaged and once there assembled correctly. Then I could train a group that would then raise hell with the Russkies for a short time as they were totally sure the Afghans had NO air support. It probably would have been suicide flights, that was never discussed. Neither was my pay as I expressed disinterest in no uncertain terms. Probably the best decision I ever made in my life! This really happened, you can't make stuff like this up.

Military subcontractor currently has 4 openings available for 4 DC-3 Airplane Pilots overseas.

I'm sure the flight operations are expanding, not filling "vacant" positions