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703doge
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Keewatin King Air

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Anyone have info on WAWCON for this job?

Thanks

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Experience
A minimum total of 1,500 flying hours
A minimum of 100 flying hours as Pilot-in-Command (PIC)
Wow!

100PIC to Captain a BE20 in the arctic.

When I started at Keewatin they wanted 5000 hours for left seat on the PC-12.
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Their current required experience for a PC-12 Captain... hmmmmm
Experience
A minimum total of 2,500 flying hours
A minimum of 500 flying hours as Pilot-in-Command (PIC)
A minimum of 500 hours turbine time
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they just took the Cam Bay contract from Tindi and replaced the pilots who worked up there with pilots that earn half as much and work on worse equipment. its what they did to borek in the eastren arctic. if you enjoy not making money, the place is for you.
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Probably the worst paid Medevac pilots out of all Medevac companies. Have buddies there that are trying to get out to greener pastures. Equipment is okay with the G1000 but they have hard time for FOs to stick it out to captain. Lots of hours to be flown and long legs. Definitely need to update that $45k a year to $75k imho. Be prepared to fly lots.

If I had close to 2000 TT and 500mpic I would consider Missinippi Airways. New pay scale has gone up to 75k for Medevac captains with confirmed travel to and from home anywhere within Canada for your 13 days on. For 3000+ hour and 1000mpic Pilots, they pay 90k. There, my two cents! Oh-and the average hours flown in 13 days rotation was roughly 35-40 hours vs Keewatin which does around 80!
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FOD_Vacuum wrote: Fri Mar 02, 2018 7:41 pm Definitely need to update that $45k a year to $75k imho. Be prepared to fly lots.
$45K was the 1st year King Air Captain salary 19 years ago at Keewatin!
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I have a couple of buddys that worked there over the years and not one person has ever had anything but bad things to say.
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It was a great place to get your start when it was owned by Bob and Judy.
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FICU wrote: Sat Mar 03, 2018 3:34 pm It was a great place to get your start when it was owned by Bob and Judy.
I think that statement applies to every single carrier that EIC has acquired over the years.
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$45K was the 1st year King Air Captain salary 19 years ago

How are you guys not getting a better wage after 19 years?!
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FICU wrote: Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:12 am $45K was the 1st year King Air Captain salary 19 years ago

How are you guys not getting a better wage after 19 years?!
EIC needs to pay their executives and shareholders first, the employees get the remaining scraps.
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oli, are you a proud Keewatin employee? can you tell use what a first year captain there makes?
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I'm not sure which is worse, this or the $58,000 posted on the other thread for the Skyservice Medevac Lear Captain.

Honestly, are you tax exempt for doing humanitarian work? If not, this is $60,000 underpaid.
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Well, I’m guessing they’re still able to find pilots willing to work for the low pay, why raise it.
19 years ago, 45,000 was a good starting wage for a King Air, 12 years back it was the same as mentioned but from what I remember it went up 5g per year to a top pay 75g which again wasn’t bad, if pilots are going to keep taking the jobs how could we expect it to go up.
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