YOU PICK THE NEXT DEEP DIVE… 🫵

At first, I researched and wrote about whatever I felt was interesting. That’s why we had a full series of deep dives on aerial imagery companies: to me, flying survey is the best low time pilot job.

But every other email, I’d get replies from readers with completely different backgrounds than mine, for whom being sent on the road for months straight wasn’t that appealing. It’s just the “young guy with no commitment” VS the “older guy with a wife and kids” thing.

Going into 2025, I’d like to dive more into what’s relevant to everyone, not just me.

Here’s a 30-second survey for you to let me know what you’d like to read about. [click here]

I particularly like this section because it answers common questions (resume advice, networking tips, hiring seasonality…) and keeps you and me up-to-date on what’s going on in the industry.

Lots of things are happening in aviation, but only some are relevant to us low time peeps. Do I really need to be reading about furloughs happening at Spirit, how single-pilot airliners are coming or how the US pilot shortage is a big marketing stunt? Yet, that’s all the algorithm keeps pushing on my feed, to the detriment of insightful but less popular low time job discussions.

In case you miss something cool related to our market, the Community Notes will have it covered and summed up.

JOB BOARD. 🔜

Based on last year’s analytics, job listings are highly appreciated (cf. the Aperture Aviation email). The problem is, getting actual listings every week, that’s unrealistic. Not only is hiring mostly seasonal (skydive, banner, survey…), but few companies actually have open slots advertised too.

What could be useful and doable on a regular basis is a periodic curation of the job boards out there: only list positions advertised on paid/unpaid aviation job boards that are low time (sub-1000 hours). We ran something similar earlier this year for climbto350, really just a nice-to-have for the convenience of not having to sort through it yourself everyday. I figured, if I’m going to do it for myself already, maybe the others would like to participate.

If you want us to give that another go, reply with “yes” and if we have enough takers, I’ll set it up.

Definitely won’t be priced as high as regular job boards, although will probably be way more valuable. I’m thinking $5 a month, and no annual option because no one wants to be job hunting for a year—ask me how I know.

Good idea or meh? let me know.