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Career screening for professional pilots

The job you don't take is worth more than the one you do.

Every recruiter is paid when you sign. Every job board is paid by the airline. We are paid by you — which is the only arrangement where telling you to walk away is allowed to be the answer.

We work for pilots, and only for pilots. That means the whole route rather than the next seat on it: the ratings, the hours, the written tests and the checkrides, in the order they actually come — and every hurdle named far enough ahead that you arrive at it prepared instead of meeting it on the day.

Four aircraft on a wet ramp at sunrise: a single-engine trainer, a light piston twin, a King Air turboprop and an airliner.
The whole ladder

Every rung is a decision, and one of them costs you a year.

What we actually do

A job board has the listing. We have the whole picture.

Finding open seats was never the hard part — the FAA publishes the operators and everyone works from the same postings. The hard part is understanding the full terms of a seat before you sit in it: the commitment, the training agreement, the upgrade path. Good operators put all of that in writing. We help you read it.

The full terms

Training agreements, commitment lengths, and how each one works — laid out plainly so you can talk about them at interview instead of at class start.

Minimums that bind

Not the number in the advert — the one that actually stops you. For most career instructors it is cross-country time, not total time.

What we don't know

Named explicitly. An unverified figure is reported as unknown, never rounded to zero and never quietly filled in.

A screening, in full

Everything about a seat, in one place.

This is the shape of an entry, the way a member sees it — what the operator offers, what it asks, and the source and date behind every line of it.

A Part 135 cargo operator Example entry

One of the larger cargo fleets in the country, and a genuine turbine-time builder — the kind of seat that moves a career forward faster than almost anything else available at this stage.

The entry records what the seat asks of you as well as what it offers: the hour minimums that actually apply, the length of the commitment, and whether a training agreement forms part of it. All of it is sourced, dated, and shown with where it came from, so you can raise it at interview and get the operator’s own answer.

Sourced
From the operator’s own published material
Recorded
With the date it was read
Verified
Re-checked within 120 days, every time

Nothing here ranks an operator down. An entry is information, dated and attributed, and the decision stays with the pilot — which is the whole point of putting it in front of them early rather than late.

The part nobody else pays for

Every claim on this site expires.

A requirement sourced eighteen months ago is not information, it is a rumour with a citation. Ours carry a freshness date and mark themselves stale when it passes — which commits us to a permanent workload rather than a launch.

1,800
Part 135 operators in scope
120
Days before any sourced minimum labels itself stale
15
Operator re-checks per day, every day, to keep the set true

The arrangement

Pilots pay. Employers never do, for anything.

No sponsored listings. No featured operators. No placement fees from the company side. No ranking that money can influence, however it is labelled.

“If the companies pay us we can’t be honest about them. If the pilots pay us we can look out for their best interest.”

The founding constraint — and the reason the whole picture is what you paid for

It is structural, not a pricing preference. If employers funded this, every reader would be right to wonder what we had left out — and we would be right to wonder too. Being paid by pilots is what lets us publish the complete picture of a seat, and it is what lets a good operator be confident that a strong entry was earned rather than bought.