State of Alaska looking for pilots. $50,000 a year week on week off

https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaStateTro ... ater&ifg=1

I'd love to check that out, but don't know how to turn Facebook on. Never been on it.

Do they take private pilots with 115 hours?

Try this one

http://dps.alaska.gov/AST/Recruit/Home/Aircraft

Alaska State Troopers (Official)


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Calling all pilots!

Follow your dream and join our team as a State of Alaska pilot! The Alaska State Troopers are hiring two pilots for the position of Aircraft Pilot I. Each will work one week on, one week off in rural posts (mainly Bethel). Per diem will be paid while away from Anchorage, and further details are available in the job posting here:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/ ... n-12-dps63

The job posting closes on September 21st, so don’t delay!

Jump on that Don.

Leave Idaho for beautiful downtown Bethel.

Gump

Been there done that for a few years thought u might come out of retirement for another retirement
Never got close to Bethel in 30 yrs ....Thank God

Wonder if ......commute between Beth-hole and Platinum?


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DonC wrote:Been there done that for a few years thought u might come out of retirement for another retirement
Never got close to Bethel in 30 yrs ....Thank God

I spent my punishment time in Bethel. Retirement is too good. They send me checks to stay away.

Gump




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Don't give a hoot?....Fly Yute.

Unfortunately they are no longer, sold out to Haageland I think.

Headoutdaplane wrote:Don't give a hoot?....Fly Yute.

Unfortunately they are no longer, sold out to Haageland I think.

Yup, bought out by Ravn, and doors shut with no notice to pretty much everyone.

Yute always had it's issues, and I worked for several of the variants, from the Will Johnson days through Flight Alaska. But all in all I had a great time with them. I ran their Kotz station for five years, and they really gave me the freedom to manage things as I saw fit. We had fun and made really good money.

And, as far as I know, Yute never had a pax fatality. We killed pilots, but never a passenger, over many, many years, and many, many thousands of flight hours.

(On Edit) I lied about fatalities. I found this story from back in 1980.

https://www.dhc-3archive.com/DHC-3_291.html

Gump

GumpAir wrote:

DonC wrote:Been there done that for a few years thought u might come out of retirement for another retirement
Never got close to Bethel in 30 yrs ....Thank God

I spent my punishment time in Bethel. Retirement is too good. They send me checks to stay away.

Gump




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Nice looking sleds. Looked up the tail number and found this

The aircraft, a Cessna 207 Skywagon, N1704U, operated by Yute Air, had to make an emergency landing on a snow covered tundra about three miles north of Akiachak, Alaska.

No one was hurt in the incident, but the aircraft ended up with substantial damage to the nose gear and propeller.

Tim

Yute ran a fleet of 10-15 Sleds for almost 30 years. Each airplane averaging over 1,000 hours a year. All in some of the worse weather and flying conditions on the planet, each taking off and landing 10-20 times a day on mud, snow, ice, and on occasion, pavement. Some of those airframes have over 30,000 hours now.

I can't think of a single Sled I flew that didn't have a history of a wreck or three. And some of my absolute favorites met untimely deaths after they got rotated away from me. People may look down on the airplane, "It's a Sled." But, in my opinion, there was never a better money maker in western and northern Alaska than the lowly Cessna 207. And, one of the toughest, most versatile airplanes ever made.

I don't recall much about 04U. It was an Aniak Sled when I was stuck down in Bethel/Aniak. In checking logbooks, last time I flew it was early 1999.

I wonder where she is now.

Gump

Enough old guys talk, and back to the OP.

This could be a really fun job for someone willing to be flexible enough to deal with the flying and living conditions.

Gump

I wonder why they're advertising for pilots, rather than Trooper Pilots? Can't find Troopers that want to fly? This sounds like an expensive taxi driver job, and getting pushed all the time by a Trooper on a mission.

Week on/week off in Bethel could be good or bad as well, but expensive, moving pilots back and forth.

I guess the State isn't far enough in the hole yet, fiscally....

MTV

GumpAir wrote:Yute ran a fleet of 10-15 Sleds for almost 30 years. Each airplane averaging over 1,000 hours a year. All in some of the worse weather and flying conditions on the planet, each taking off and landing 10-20 times a day on mud, snow, ice, and on occasion, pavement. Some of those airframes have over 30,000 hours now.

I can't think of a single Sled I flew that didn't have a history of a wreck or three. And some of my absolute favorites met untimely deaths after they got rotated away from me. People may look down on the airplane, "It's a Sled." But, in my opinion, there was never a better money maker in western and northern Alaska than the lowly Cessna 207. And, one of the toughest, most versatile airplanes ever made.

I don't recall much about 04U. It was an Aniak Sled when I was stuck down in Bethel/Aniak. In checking logbooks, last time I flew it was early 1999.

I wonder where she is now.

Gump

My dad visits with one of the RAVN maintenance chiefs pretty frequently. My understanding is the Yute sleds are being dumped and replaced with Caravans. There are 2 more of them from a bankrupt air taxi that are sitting here slowly turning into ramp mummies. Hard to watch.

mtv wrote:I wonder why they're advertising for pilots, rather than Trooper Pilots? Can't find Troopers that want to fly? This sounds like an expensive taxi driver job, and getting pushed all the time by a Trooper on a mission.

Week on/week off in Bethel could be good or bad as well, but expensive, moving pilots back and forth.

I guess the State isn't far enough in the hole yet, fiscally....

MTV

I'm not sure who they'll get for that kind of $. My understanding is the air taxis are even having a hard time getting them at $100K. My buddy flys a brand new twin Otter out of Deadhorse. They can't get pilots either.

I was partial to 755AB. Used to see it in BET now and again.

gbflyer wrote:

mtv wrote:I wonder why they're advertising for pilots, rather than Trooper Pilots? Can't find Troopers that want to fly? This sounds like an expensive taxi driver job, and getting pushed all the time by a Trooper on a mission.

Week on/week off in Bethel could be good or bad as well, but expensive, moving pilots back and forth.

I guess the State isn't far enough in the hole yet, fiscally....

MTV

I'm not sure who they'll get for that kind of $. My understanding is the air taxis are even having a hard time getting them at $100K. My buddy flys a brand new twin Otter out of Deadhorse. They can't get pilots either.

Exactly, and the legislature did away with the Trooper pension, though these jobs wouldn't qualify anyway.

They'll find someone, a CFI with the bare min hours, but they won't last long....get some experience and go for the gold.

MTV

mtv wrote:

gbflyer wrote:

mtv wrote:I wonder why they're advertising for pilots, rather than Trooper Pilots? Can't find Troopers that want to fly? This sounds like an expensive taxi driver job, and getting pushed all the time by a Trooper on a mission.

Week on/week off in Bethel could be good or bad as well, but expensive, moving pilots back and forth.

I guess the State isn't far enough in the hole yet, fiscally....

MTV

I'm not sure who they'll get for that kind of $. My understanding is the air taxis are even having a hard time getting them at $100K. My buddy flys a brand new twin Otter out of Deadhorse. They can't get pilots either.

Exactly, and the legislature did away with the Trooper pension, though these jobs wouldn't qualify anyway.

They'll find someone, a CFI with the bare min hours, but they won't last long....get some experience and go for the gold.

MTV

They cut Trooper retirements?