Obbie wrote:
On a side note, the collage experiment is now
dead in the water. Much to the relief of most of our Captains.

Really? Speaking only for the Dash side I'd heard nary a complaint and only compliments about the college pilots

Changes in Latitudes wrote:And to those of you living and working in Iqaluit...I am offering $200 dollars to the first person that swipe someone's Jazz HAT!

You know, for that price I'd happily mail you mine.

Oh, I don't know, apparently WestJet is hiring, so it probably won't be too long...

There have been college graduates in groundschool. There are currently college graduates in groundschool. Will there be more in the future? Beats me.

Some of this also comes from the Flight Instructor Handbook, what the Armed Forces uses. You can find copies of it online (not current or so I'm told but does that really matter?)

If there's a course, they haven't told the trainers... not that that is unusual.

Hey, I hope you ordered the parka to run up a thousand dollar bill. I hear its pretty comfy and warm enough to shovel the driveway with. I can't imagine wearing the trench coat after leaving Jazz. I feel creepy enough wearing it out to dinner on overnights.

SQ wrote:some reasons not to go to jazz

4- do 3 walk arounds a day

2 Solutions:

1) Do some more cardio - even the 705 isn't that big a distance around. It might even give you the stamina to deal with point 1.
2) Plead with the Capt that some evil doer has made off with your vest

Maybe the speed bumps are their new cash crop. I hope they harvest them soon.

Just add two weeks to the last one. They'll stop in summer, for Christmas and presumably when we have a full roster.

God speed Ron. I don't know where I'd be without the start you gave me.

1) The college grads that were hired came from four colleges in Canada. Two colleges each sent three, with one each from the other two.

2) 1500 hours sounds right for now, but years from now? Could be 250, could be 10000. Depends on how this industry runs doesn't it?

Here's an easy one - no transborder routes out of YUL on the dash!

We go to CLE, DTW, PIT, BDL, and BMI from YYZ on the DHC8.
TTFN

Starts on Nov 19 - so don't sweat it, they're not going through the hiring process that fast.

Next one is in December, first or second week.

Two a month until the end of the year. Supposed to be twenty in each. They might only run one in Dec because of Christmas like last year. I suspect it'll be the same for the new year but you know how this industry goes.

I don't want to get your hopes up, but in the last two months or so there have been Halifax openings for new hires. Only two, and usually only one per groundschoo. Lots of people want to go to Halifax, but they don't want to go as the bottom F/O.

Regardless of that, the whole setup is getting far too political for most of the people involved because of this new big shot that can't fly worth a damn. I cannot speak to what you're discussing, but are you aware that they have put out a request for people interested in that job? Sounds like the ...

What you're talking about is a special exemption granted only to the employee until the regular passes kick in. It's the same travel benefit, with the same cost as regular passes. You're looking at about 25$ - 40$ per round trip depending on where you're coming from or going to. And for the your fir...

No, there isn't a shortage of pilots right NOW. The reason they have started this program now is to test whether they can successfully hire out of college because they predict that in a few years there will be a shortage. One theory I've heard is that if you hire someone with this low time, they won...

Will the corporate job keep you in Western Canada? Because right now Jazz most likely will have you in YYZ or YUL for at least six months before a spot will open up in that direction. That's not a given, sometimes there are western spots. But it doesn't always work out. I hope this helps you.

What Dark Helmet said - if you're going to commute you fill out a form for an exemption. It used to be it only worked to YYZ, but now they will let you commute right away from your domicile to your base. I believe it has to be a direct flight, no criss crossing the country. The Westjet agreement is ...

Actually, it was originally 2 RJ YVR, 4 RJ YYZ, 3 Dash YYZ, 3 Dash YUL. It was discovered after the positions were awarded that they made a boo boo and that all the RJ spots were Dash and vice versa. Oops.

It won't happen any time soon. If you mean by March, no, since college students only graduate in May. It's a project they're testing to see if it works. There's no B scale wage. They're going to get the same wage anyone gets when they join. As for upgrades, that seems kind of a silly worry. Since i...

Not much point is asking for a breakdown in a course. We, the general public don't really get that info until the course itself. It'll have Dash 8 spots, RJ spots, whatever. The number of new hires given for this year is 125. Subtract 27 for the first groundschool, and possibly a few others and you ...

They tell us in groundschool that an ATPL and some good experience is the minimum to get an interview these days, except in May there'll be an exception.

Times were higher in the last groundschool than they'd been lately. Why? Who knows, good for Jazz though.