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Alaska offers the most
interesting, fun, and adventurous civilian flying available on a daily basis
anywhere on the planet. If you are interested in exploring flying-job opportunities in Alaska, the membership section of
this website provides the most complete and comprehensive information available from any single source.
Alaska flying jobs are updated here on this website on a daily basis, or as they come up. Latest postings: May 6th government flying jobs in Alaska and May 10th for float pilot...beaver/C-206. There are Alaska flight operations still needing pilots for the 2008 season, but the initial training and recurrent training classes for most Alaska flight operations will be over with by the end of May. Nevertheless, throughout the summer season, there are pilots who quit or get fired. Consequently there are always at least a few operators looking for pilots, even in the middle of the summer. For 33 years I have flown wheels, skis and floats as a pilot for Alaska air taxi operators from southeast Alaska to the North Slope, flying mail, parts and supplies, construction materials, groceries, equipment, etc. and as a pilot/guide for flyout fishing lodges, licensed big-game hunting guides, for biologists who were radio-tracking polar bears, musk ox and other critters, for geologists installing earthquake monitoring instruments, for oil exploration, gold miners, hauling explosives etc. You name it, I've probably done it. I flew 18 seasons as a fish spotter for commercial herring fishing all over Alaska from Sitka to Togiak and 12 seasons for commercial salmon fishing in Prince William Sound, and have been flying in Alaska since 1975. Most recently, for seven seasons, starting in 2000, I flew for Rust's Flying Service (straight floats Beavers and Cessna 206s) and am now taking this summer off in accordance with my wife's long-term on-going desire to have me here at home for the summer for the first time in many years. If you have questions, E-mail me and I will answer you within 24 hours with an in-depth answer. The optimum time of year to sign up for the membership section of this website is in December, January or at the beginning of February when many operators begin to actively seek pilots for the coming busy season. However, your membership at any time before then, gives you the time to evaluate the huge amount of information provided in the membership section and to come up with an intelligent and well-thought-out plan for pursuing a job as a pilot in Alaska. Seasonal Alaska flight operations are geared primarily to tourism. This includes scenic flights, bear viewing, sports fishing and hunting (guided and unguided). Not all operators are involved with hunting, on the other hand, some are geared strictly to hunting. Many of them focus on scenic tours and fishing. Scenic tours go on year 'round. Sports fishing happens from May through September and even into October for some areas of Alaska. There are also lodges which operate their own airplanes and, for the most part, cater to wealthy people seeking unique and remote fishing and hunting opportunities. Many places in Alaska are busiest during the winter months because they transport supplies, mail and people to and between native villages and remote settlements. Many villages and settlements are totally dependent on airplanes for the transportation of groceries, mail, construction materials and passenger flights to and from hubs such as Fairbanks or Bethel, Ketchikan or Juneau, from villages in the interior and along the Yukon River in southeast or western Alaska. Oil exploration and supplying oil-industry-related camps on the North Slope is another major wintertime use of airplanes. Wintertime North Slope operations require experienced pilots flying turbine-powered aircraft in the winter darkness,.. much of the time on instruments. The information in the membership section of this website provides you with the information necessary to create a plan for sending out resumes and/or for planning face-to-face, door-to-door job-seeking visits to flight operations in Alaska. To see latest updates, refresh this page: In Firefox hold down the Ctrl key and press the 
icon on upper windows menu bar. For Internet Explorer it's Ctrl + the F5 key.For Mac computer users, you probably know how to refresh the page.. Sign up here, $19.95 for a year of unlimited access to the job listings and job opportunities section of flyalaska.com. This price is going to go up soon (June 1). If you have any questions, e-mail me and to the best of my ability, I will answer your questions with an in-depth personal reply (no autoresponder). Website links are checked and validated frequently. New ones are added as they arise and I find them. "Jay, I can't say enough good about your site, as I've acquired three jobs through flyalaska.com. I flew in Alaska a bit as a young man and promised myself that I was coming back when I turned 60. ( That happened, and I did). Sincerely. Rob Raiff" Hi Jay, This is somewhat overdue - but a big thanks for providing the accurate information that got me the job at Wings of Alaska this summer. Three months in and I love it. The hours are long, but on those beautiful days the hours just fly by. I can recommend this company to other seasonal would-be pilots for the '08 summer season. Hope your own summer is flying along smoothly, and thanks again for your help getting me up here! sincerely, Jonathan B. Sign up here, $19.95 for a year of unlimited access. If you have any questions, e-mail me and to the best of my ability, I will answer your questions with an in-depth personal reply (no autoresponder). The experience you'll gain flying in Alaska is invaluable from a personal and professional standpoint. Alaska time is looked upon by the airlines with unreserved respect. Nevertheless, many pilots who start out in Alaska end up staying there for their whole flying career because it's fun, challenging, personally rewarding and adventurous. Your time as a professional pilot in Alaska will give you more satisfaction than almost any other civilian flying job. Alaskan pilots provide unique and necessary services that generate heartfelt appreciation, respect and enduring friendships. If you are looking for a truly interesting career as a pilot, or for an exciting change, Alaska will satisfy that desire. Once you have experienced the freedom and beauty of Alaska as a pilot, you'll be hooked. It's truly enjoyable to fly airplanes for a living. The day-to-day adventure provided by Alaska bush flying is hard to rival unless you're an astronaut, a test pilot, a miltary fighter pilot, a hurricane-penetration pilot or an off-the-wall covert-ops pilot engaged in some weird flying mission somewhere in the world. Skill, judgement and intuition all come into play daily in various combinations as you gain Alaska flying experience. The trade off between flying five and a half hours in a straight line at 40,000 feet or winding your way up a wilderness river or flying low through a range of high mountains, is all a matter of personal priority. Money is probably a big influence. You can eventually make a substantial salary flying high...in a straight line...on instruments in turbine-powered aircraft, That kind of flying job is occasionally interpersed with amazing events, but is filled mostly with hours of straight-line boredom. Generally, high-flying mainland commercial pilots, experience feelings of exuberance, the joy of applied skill, and moment-to-moment intuitive confidence only on hand-flown instrument approaches and when they takeoff and land. Alaska bush pilots don't make as much money as the pilot who carries hundreds of people or many tons of cargo in long straight lines over vast distances..., but they exercise many skills on a daily basis and have a lot more fun. All of the specific job offers (about 70 of them from about 55 companies) that have come up since February 1, 2007 have been re-formatted with website links to all of them except three (no website available) These listings of specific job offers show which companies have been hiring pilots since the beginning of the 2007 hiring season. It is very likely that many of these companies will be hiring pilots again for the 2008 season. So in addition to all of the rest of the information available in the membership section, this information will be useful in planning a job-hunting strategy for 2008. Your registration comes with a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee. Your registration gives you one year of unlimited access to: For the best Alaska flying-job information available Sign up here, $19.95 for a year of unlimited access. |
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"Jay, It has been too long since I visited your site. I used it a couple of years ago and finally got my break to fly in Alaska. Logged about 1300 hours up here now and am in the "immortal Beaver". I am loving it and just want to say thanks for a GREAT webservice. Francois Bakkes" "Jay, Flyalaska is one of the most comprehensive and impressive web sites I've visited and/or joined. Keep up the good work! For us Lower 48ers who missed or passed up the opportunity to make the move to the full-time Alaska life style, the site gives outstanding extemporaneous experience Thanks! J. Compton" "Jay, I have been a member of flyalaska.com for a few years now and I don't think I have taken the time to tell you what an amazing job you have done with it! It is an incredible resource, especially for those of us looking at Alaska from the lower 48. I greatly appreciate all the work you have done!" B.J.S." "Dear Jay, Thanks for your very interesting, comprehensive and useful website. I have secured a flying job out of Talkeetna Alaska for the summer season of 2006. Also many thanks for your personal and professional advice that enabled me to "live my dream." Vic Valli," Ocala, FL "Jay The money I spent to get into the website is the best few dollars I ever spent. At the time though I was dead broke with no job and praying it would help me get a job. It did and I am thankful for the work you have done compiling all those possible job opportunities in Alaska. Sincerely, D. Williams" "Thanks, Jay, FLYALASKA.COM helped me to find Alaska flying jobs two years in a row. You helped me to avoid the hot Texas summers!!" --Chuck "Jay, I used your site to find the job I have now in Kodiak, and I'll be browsing it for future jobs in interior Alaska. Great Stuff...Thank you! J B" "Thanks Jay, for your outstanding and informative website. It has been indispensable in my finding a summer flying job up north. I got hired to fly Cherokee sixes out of Bethel this coming summer." Alaska Jim" "Hi Jay, First off, let me congratulate you on a comprehensive, informative, and easy to use website. I'm a pilot from Alaska and still learned a lot from it. You're doing a great service to pilots and that state we love so much. J. Johnson" "Mr. Kelley, Wanted to thank you for a great website. I got hired to fly out of Kodiak based on info I gathered from your website. I'm sure you get lots of emails like this, but just wanted to let you know all your work goes to good use. Thanks in part to you, I hope to start a long and enjoyable Alaska flying career. Adam" "Jay Your website has been a God send. I started writing, faxing and emailing my resumes with this invaluable information and in less than a week I had two job offers to fly aircraft in which I am qualified. Being between jobs is difficult but your web site solved that problem very quickly. Thanks again for your help. Roy Mann" |