Being in the right place at the right time would be very advantageous. However, it might be a great time for getting set up to make things happen. Right now, weather, season of the year and shutdowns related the COVID virus make it a difficult time to get started on your dream. If you received certification for teaching in Alaska and were willing to work out in some of these areas, I suspect opportunities related to flying would open up. Most of these areas also have chronic shortages of teachers for other subjects. A number of the western Alaska school districts have been very supportive of aviation as part of their curriculum. However your situation is kind of unique with your teacher's credentials. Everyone remember Speedo's rise to Alaska glory?ħ00 hours from outside Alaska, with most of it likely instructing is not a lot of experience for commercial flying in Alaska. PS: You are not the first to have this challenge. Also, to sustain your funds maybe put in with school districts to substitute teach some days a week and look for jobs the rest of the time. Keep working forward and banging on doors. Princess has announced no hotel openings this summer, so again tour pilots will not be in demand. One issue is that operators don't like to do the class for one guy, so ask when their next class is and if you can attend.įairbanks has quite a few operators that may need pilots, good place to knock on doors, also try the folks down in Kodiak- might just call Kodiak and tell them you are in Anchorage. sooner or later they will need more pilots.Ī note about 135, there is a multiple day class that every pilot needs for every 135 they work at. so don't be shy about asking for flying jobs and offering to work ramp for now. Yute, and Grant and Ryan all use lots of ground people, and seem short handed often. Again, get an address in Alaska.īethel is expensive to survive without food and housing. but you are 80% forward of most: you are here and they can look at you. One important point is the 'Alaska' hire. Get and Alaska Address! Post office box would be fine. You are also a tad bit in front of summer hire, good because you are here first, bad because most are not thinking about summer hire. When someone finally asks what it will take to get rid of you, tell them a job in aviation. Get to know the front people and let them see you are a good person. Go back the next week and ask again and be polite. I’ll leave my phone number here as well ( 9)ĭon't take the first 'no' either! While companies like Security might not be interested at all, and no is really their answer until you have MEL at least, other places just say 'no' out of reflex, especially if they have never seen you before. I plan to stay in Anchorage until next Monday and then I will have to fly back to Wisconsin to pack. Maybe I’ll fly out to Bethel and try there? May I ask the experienced pilots on any helpful tips or any information on where else I can knock? but I was hoping to find some aviation related work. In the worst case scenario- I’ll be fine doing dock work or filleting salmon. I pretty much did an all-in quitting my job and making moving preparations so I plan to move here regardless of how my job search turns out this week. Is there no place for a fresh guy like me in Alaska? I would really like to get into the flying scene up here. that’s the only thing I can do - but I wonder if what the chief pilot said is true. I am not about to give up and I’ll go out and try again tomorrow. But honestly I was feeling pretty down after today. Now - I don’t expect anything in life to be handed to me. One chief pilot of a cargo operation specifically told me that Alaskans will only hire Alaskans and I have no chance. but no one wanted to hire an out of state pilot with 0 local connections. I think I tried almost all the 135 operators in Anchorage area. I flew into Alaska this past Sunday and I started to knock on some doors Monday and Tuesday. A lot of people thought this was a dumb move (and rightfully so) since the job market is grim due to the pandemic, but I know what my heart desires and I decided to act on it. So now I have about 700 hrs, and I quit my job in Wisconsin. As a fresh flight instructor I could not find any jobs in Alaska, so I ended up instructing in Wisconsin for about a year. So I became a high school teacher for a while and then I got hooked with the idea of living in Alaska! So I got into flying and completed my certifications in 2020. Before aviation, I used to work for the Pentagon crunching numbers but I found no real happiness there. I transitioned my career into aviation relatively late (30). I flew into Anchorage a few days ago looking for a job but it is as if I am hitting an invisible wall - I was wondering if any of the experienced pilots could give some helpful tips to guide me. Hello everyone! My name is Jin Bae and I am a flight instructor from Wisconsin.
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