Ferry Pilot?

[Danos]

Has anyone done ferry pilot work before? If so how did you get the jobs?

 

[TMetzinger]

I have, and it's usually word-of-mouth or social networking. There are frankly a bunch of folks who will ferry little airplanes for free (they may or may not have commercial certificates) and a bunch of owners who take them up on the offer, and generally neither one of them seems to know and/or care about the liability risks they assume when they do that.

The little amount of work I've gotten has come from shops or owners who already knew me, and while I did get some "hits" from advertising in Trade-A-Plane, they were looking to ferry unworthy airplanes (which I won't do) or airplanes that I don't have a lot of experience in, or wanted me to fly them across the Atlantic (which I also won't do just yet).

So, my experience is that there isn't a huge lucrative market for light aircraft ferry, but the occasional job is fun.

 

[Comet]

There are also some websites for all kinds of pilot jobs online. (use Google, Yahoo search etc). Some of them requires you to become a member and this costs money. But you can view them without paying. I have not tried any of them so I can't recommend them, but I've had instructors that did and got jobs through them before; both ferrying planes and dropping skydivers.

 

[Dean]

I see ads on barnstormers.com all the time for pilots looking to ferry airplanes, you might post an ad there.

 

[infotango]

Ya'll might also want to congratulate Danos on the brand new C-certificate!

Awesome!

 

[Earthroamer]

Go work for a large dealer. Worked for me. Plus, taught for him on the side at his school.

 

[Henning]

Has anyone done ferry pilot work before? If so how did you get the jobs?

I started working at a Repair Station, and since I was the only one who flew, I'd get the jobs that came in, then some brokers would get my name.....