hey guys what's up John here from fly
eat Mike alpha comm coming to you today
to talk about five pilot jobs you can do
with 500 hours total time flying
let's go intro alright so five jobs
we're talking about you can do with 500
hours total flight time so pretty much
anybody out there can do with 500 hours
anyone can get into and the key here is
you can do these jobs without having to
shave your face cuz I just don't really
like that just don't feel like shaving
anymore so we'll try to compare them all
equally we're talking pay benefits and
then ease of getting hired if some of
these jobs might require a little bit
more specific flight time in a certain
airplane with a little more tailwheel
time we'll try to cover that for you
guys as well
so first off skydive pilot is our first
job on the list if you want to be a
jumper driver a diver driver jump pilot
however you want to call it so the pay
for a diver driver is roughly around
thirty bucks an hour give or take
sometimes starts a little lower
sometimes a little more kind of rare
sometimes you'll be paid per load so
oftentimes they'll be paid ten to twenty
dollars per load and you can do well
roughly you know one to two load
sometimes three loads in an hour so
anywhere in that you know 20 to even $50
an hour range maybe if you're lucky as
far as how many hours a day you can get
in almost six to eight hours a day
pretty typical
how many flight hours you know maybe
just shy that maybe four to six hours of
flight time per day and the one key
drawback there is it's often seasonal
there's gonna be no benefits typically
1099 as you're paid rarely are you a w-2
employee and the ease of getting hired
well in the baseline of things flying a
182 or some smaller airplanes if it's
not a big plane or something like that
then yeah it's fairly easy to get hired
into that with 500 hours total time next
you could be a CFI with 500 hours and of
course everyone talks about being a CFI
one of the easiest ways to build your
time to get to the next level or to even
go into as a career now being a flight
instructor being a CFI has changed a lot
in the last few years here really so
this is actually job pay wise you're
looking at if we were to talk about
things in total compensation right
that's what we won't want to try to talk
about because total compensation would
be your base salary any signing bonuses
and then also any benefits lumped into
that because there's no benefits being a
sky dive pilots and these other jobs are
about to talk about
so total compensation for ACF I at the
top end schools you can get hired out
with 500 hours roughly around 70
thousand per year salary it doesn't
really matter how many hours you fly how
many hours can you fly per year well
five to eight hundred typically but if
you're talking salary really doesn't
matter you'll get paid the same now as
far as base salary that's in the mid 50
thousand per year range and then as far
as the total compensation while you're
talking 401k health care dental
insurance vision insurance airline
travel benefits if you're working for I
say like L 80 which is a flight school
affiliated with Lufthansa Airlines in
Germany so you get airline travel
benefits them paid vacation paid
holidays paid sick time things like that
so thing to see if I is become more of a
career type thing rather than just to
build your time and these are getting
hired into that pretty easy if you got
the 500 hours total time so that's
pretty high up there on the scale fairly
easy to get picked up next up we've got
banner towing now this is another one
fairly easy to get picked up on pay
really ranges again but you can bet
about twenty eight bucks an hour is a
pretty average that we've found
you know we saw things anywhere from 15
on up to 30 bucks an hour for banner
towing and it can be pretty long hours
which is kind of helpful as far as
getting paid right so you're not going
to go out and just fly for an hour
typically but it is very seasonal and
there typically are no benefits once
again you're back to 1099 so in terms of
total compensation you'd be lucky to
come home with 30 40 grand maybe a year
in that field or in that pilot position
as a banner tow pilot but as long as you
got say you know 10 20 hours a tailwheel
time pretty easy to get picked up and
there's even banner - airplanes I don't
take a wheel or trikes that you can get
picked up with just your plain 500 hours
so fairly as you get hired pay yeah not
so great kind of middle-of-the-road
and benefits typically none the only
reason pays good is because you can fly
some of the hours in a day next up we've
got 135 flying or charter flying those
sorts of jobs that kind of fall into
that scenic tour operations things
you've seen Alaska out west around the
Grand Canyon and around Florida flying
around the keys and out on the East
Coast doing charters and really all over
the lower 48 as well but any sort of 135
line well pays gonna start it kind of
varies it could be 20 bucks an hour
could be 20
five an hour could be 200 ollars a day
that's a really common rate you'll see
for whether you're sitting right seat
and a hawker at 500 hours or you're
sitting left seat and a you know
assessment 206 180 to 200 bucks a day is
pretty typical what you can bet on for
pay the trouble there is you may not be
able to log the flight time even though
they're paying you to sit right seating
the Hawker you may or may not be able to
log that flight time especially if
you're not multi in generated especially
if the guy's not an Mei especially if
it's doesn't require two pilots to be
flying it so you may get into some of
these jobs that sound great flying a jet
but there's no benefits again it's just
all 1099 here's your money
no w-2 jobs out there really for that
sort of thing and you may not be logging
flight time sitting in that Hawker now
the other side of this is say grant
aviation up in Alaska well they actually
pay 200 ollars a day go fly their small
airplanes two weeks on two weeks off so
you're looking at you know not a whole
lot of money but about you know
twenty-eight hundred bucks a month maybe
any of there's some basic benefits there
as well as airline travel benefits
they're part of Cass they're part of the
jump seat you know group of airline so
you can actually jump seat around and
have flight benefits working for someone
like grant up in Alaska now as far as
total compensation their friend if it's
aren't quite that great so you're
looking in the mid 30s maybe high 30s if
you're lucky as far as what they offer
in terms of healthcare for 1k and all
that all the extra stuff it's really not
much in the 135 world either getting
hired into those 135 jobs is a lot
easier now and it's really once again
know who you know kind of thing
especially for the right seat jet jobs
once again you're not gonna really be
able long time in those right sea jet
jobs most often but as far as the left
seat jobs flying the Cessna is up around
Alaska and the lower 48 flying some
those smaller 206 --is and things like
that you can't log the time and again
kind of who you know but it's also
fairly easy if you just pick up the
phone call or drop off a resume actually
go show your face there it's getting
easier by the day because we are coming
into a little bit of a pilot shortage
here in case you guys haven't noticed as
far as aerial survey aerial photography
and pipeline patrol those are last
that's our last fifth wheel just kind of
lump them all into one aerial surveying
or photography whether it's
surveying animals surveying land taking
pictures pipeline patrol all kind of
lumps in the same easy getting
yeah somewhere between just show up and
who you know you have to kind of know to
get the job so not the easiest get hired
into but not the hardest the trouble
with it is it kind of comes and goes
right you'll have a lot of work line
eight hours a day around the twenty to
thirty dollar an hour range sometimes
even more but again 1099 rarely find w-2
jobs in this field rarely find any sort
of benefits total compensation you're
looking in the thirty thousand - range
because you're not gonna have work
year-round it's really when something
gets a contract or somebody gets a big
job they fly a whole bunch for a few
weeks a month
and then you're just sitting around
waiting again the same thing with aerial
photography with drones coming out real
estate agents aren't really calling up
guys to go take pictures of houses
anymore so that's kind of shifting into
not as popular kind of harder to find
the work hey count on the 30 ish
thousand range and then benefits count
on none and as far as getting hired know
it's moderate again so that really sums
up the five jobs we've got again you
don't have to shave for any of these
five jobs hopefully that gives you guys
a little bit of insight of what you can
do to build your time to get to the next
level or if you're looking just to you
know kind of do that for a career all
those can be careers you can live off
all those salaries although they're not
necessarily amazing some of them you
know once you once you break the fifty
thousand mark I've always found that I
was pretty comfortable making fifty
thousand up total compensation that made
life a lot easier than trying to live
off twenty thirty thousand dollars a
year so that's my two cents on it that's
what we found in our research if you
guys have any other ideas leave them in
the comments below we will link all of
these companies that we research our top
five companies so to speak for these
jobs in the description below as well so
you can check those out if you want to
go ahead and call them up drop off a
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