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- Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:03 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Join the Cascadia Team
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4701
Re: Join the Cascadia Team
Cascadia.
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:07 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: YWG Base
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2568
Re: YWG Base
For sure it's a Viscount base, I saw one. I'm bidding for the DC-8 though.
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:09 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: I love job requirements like these...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6682
Re: I love job requirements like these...
They're just minima, as long as you meet the minimum standard in each category, you don't need meet them within those proportions. Business jet jobs have required odd minima for many years. I don't think they're looking for ex-military fighter types but they don't want to exclude them either. Realis...
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:01 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Smoking in aircraft
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4451
Re: Smoking in aircraft
Captains I flew with on 705 aircraft could be seen with a butt hanging out of the DV window while freight was being unloaded and pax were de-planing, I think even while fuelling in the north. That was over 20 years ago, but just a blink of an eye on a geological time scale.
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:44 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: 80k for a government chief pilot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5236
Re: 80k for a government chief pilot
I would leave aviation entirely before taking on that job again, even for twice the money. Maybe it's just me.
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:58 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
No wonder the governing party repealed the Taxpayer Transparency Act. If that contract value provided by Babcock is true, then that's roughly $16.9 million per year CAD for the Tanker Program Alone. That's more than the entire cost for MGAS in a single year. The total cost for MGAS needs to include ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:16 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: The E190 and Sky Regional discussion
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8934
Re: The E190 and Sky Regional discussion
Maybe the "Big Announcement" is a Scent Free Workplace.
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:34 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
A State Operator or Government Air Service as applicable is not a business in pursuit of an income or profit by operating the aircraft. Any money that changes hands is simply between government agencies for cost recovery. Patients are not charged for the transport, the taxpayer is. Employees of othe...
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
704 requires jets of any size to demonstrate landings within 60% of available LDA before dispatch, accounting for all conditions present etc. 604 and its equivalent in the US, FAR part 91, requires landings within the LDA. The AFM will require further factoring for gravel, wet, or contamination, so ...
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
digits There is no 604 "loophole". The jet meets Transport Category performance requirements for every departure, gravel or pavement wet or dry, one engine inoperative. If it can't, the trip is a no go. Regarding Winnipeg-Churchill, the time advantage over turbo props is nearly one hour one way, tha...
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:48 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
Digits, the response time from Winnipeg is a necessary metric for critical care trips because all of the doctors and neonatal teams etc. are based there where the big hospitals are. Any aircraft repositioning to Winnipeg would only add to the delays before taking the medical expertise to the communi...
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:02 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
The jet in the RFP is for "out of province work". The loss of jet service will be "in the province" due to the inability to dispatch a jet to short runways under CAR 704 requirements. That's a loss of service for the province.
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
I'm wondering how the current level of performance and safety can be maintained, as thegovernment claims, if the jet service is lost? (Considering critical care trips)
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:51 am
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Huge discouragement
- Replies: 190
- Views: 33144
Re: Huge discouragement
M'Kay, I need those TPS reports this afternoon.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:36 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Huge discouragement
- Replies: 190
- Views: 33144
Re: Huge discouragement
I'm looking for an FO who can "Angle the deflector shields while I make the calculations for the jump to hyperspace." You seem qualified for that. Are you interested?
- Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
Privatization is rarely about costs, although the idea is sold to the public more easily if they believe that.
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:22 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
- Replies: 146
- Views: 39618
Re: Manitoba Govt Air Services to be Privatised
Heavy maintenance in house.
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:18 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Interview
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12886
Re: Interview
To be brief and to the point: 1) Interviewer was very welcoming, to the point, informal in a formal way. A positive experience. 2) The video interview is a half decent tutorial for the face to face interview. 3) Psych test is a real gem. 4) After close to 25 years in the industry, no matter what hap...
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The importance of having a degree
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26055
Re: The importance of having a degree
I read works by Noam Chomsky, Carl Sagan, Peter D Ward, and Tony Kern to name a few. The Economist was productive reading for a business newspaper. Keep the mind working and stereotypes challenged. BTW, if you have a degree, don't include it on your resume for entry level jobs in this business, it'l...
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:06 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: RIP Stephen Hawking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5160
Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
I mean, he will be missed. 
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: RIP Stephen Hawking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5160
Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time was the first book I read in my post University life. It is funny that the one of the most brilliant and notable physicists in history would take the time and effort summarize the universe in "layman 's" terms for all to understand, much like Carl Sagan. I remember Stephen Ha...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:43 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Keewatin King Air
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9941
Re: Keewatin King Air
I'm not sure which is worse, this or the $58,000 posted on the other thread for the Skyservice Medevac Lear Captain.
Honestly, are you tax exempt for doing humanitarian work? If not, this is $60,000 underpaid.
Honestly, are you tax exempt for doing humanitarian work? If not, this is $60,000 underpaid.
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:33 pm
- Forum: Corporate
- Topic: Sky Service Air Ambulance
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9272
Re: Sky Service Air Ambulance
That's only $60,000 below what it should be to start.
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:43 pm
- Forum: Flair Airlines
- Topic: Accepting applications for First Officers & Direct Entry Captains
- Replies: 34
- Views: 23629
Re: Accepting applications for First Officers & Direct Entry Captains
Canjet paid their new Captains $85,000 fifteen years ago, it was bad then, $90,000 is terrible now with the cost of living in those cities.
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:56 pm
- Forum: Corporate
- Topic: What's the deal with Kilmer and Onex?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6765
Re: What's the deal with Kilmer and Onex?
There is no shortage at that level of the industry.