Conversation between a captain and an f/o at my company:

F/o: Can I use your approach plates? my ipad just died.
Captain: No, you should have thought of that before you relied on your ipad. Now brief me the approach

thanks for the informative response. and yes it is a metro. i'd hate to get stuck up in shamattawa because i started in series and blew it haha

my electrical theory is weak. what is the difference between starting engines in series versus in parallel mode? my SOP's say that all starts should be in parallel unless maintenance is consulted. any idea why?

tailplane stalls life raft requirements re dist/time from land detecting thunderstorms using wx radar critical point max weight using w&b charts obtaining sigmet info before departure specific air/ground range type rating privileges metar/taf junk alt to be flown in mountainous regions with large te...

wow things get sidetracked on here fast. the post was just meant to be a friendly heads up to fellow pilots/wannabes, not necessarily a discussion on the pros and cons of perimeter or ramp work.

having said that, i laughed my ass off at the sewer tube in sham town remark. cheers

perimeter's hiring. nuf said.

how come if there's an RVR you need 1200 (or 1200 & 600) but if there's no RVR or it's U/S you can shoot the approach regardless of the reported ground vis? like if the RVR was down and the metar or otherwise reported ground vis was 0 miles, you could still try to get in...

found this on the net You might be a freight dog if… • Your airplane was getting old when you were born. • You have not done a daylight landing in the past six months. • ATC advises you of smoother air at a different altitude, and you don’t care. • When you taxi up to an FBO they roll out the red ca...

i hear they do as much hiring from within as possible

thanks for the posts guys. if there are any current or previous perimeter employees reading this, could you pm me?

a search of older posts from 2004 - 2008/9 say ramp wait time is approx 2 years. i assume that hasn't changed too much? seems like a decent company to work for if you can handle the wait.

thanks

i would like to do a bit of everything, which i think is just called AME, or AME-M? otherwise probably engines. i'm not especially interested in avionics or structures specifically. what types of AME licenses are out there? i've heard of AME-M, AME-S, AME-E - which i assume are maintenance, structur...

i've been looking for awhile now too. emailed CV's to almost every flight school in canada (minus quebec) and called a few too. emailing resumes is a long shot, but considering it's free and just takes a bit of time, probably worth it. i also visited as many schools as i could which in the GTA is qu...

confederation, canadore, centennial, mohawk seem to be the most popular, or at least have the most info available.

what are your thoughts?

i was wondering the same thing... maybe because the job market is so bad they thought there must be a pilot out there who is unemployed and has carpentry/cabinet making experience and who will also most likely work for peanuts.

Any info on what it's like to work here? Google search didn't yield much, other than a few vague negative comments...

there's a good thread on pprune. it's done as a kind of journal of a guy who went to Africa looking for a flying job. it's very thorough and interesting, and i still haven't found the time to read the whole thing.

http://www.pprune.org/interviews-jobs-s ... -then.html

you might want to check out page 2 and 3 of this forum where someone posted the exact same topic and got lots of good advice from people.

i think one of the major problems out there is the competitiveness of the industry itself. with flight schools, airlines, and bush operators competing for each others' respective business, companies are forced to cut costs which in turn filters down to pilot training and wages (among many other thin...

I'm thinking of traveling abroad to look for a flying job in another country. are there any countries other than the US that will let you use a Canadian CPL to work there? or maybe there are countries that require minimal conversion..? i've heard that to fly in europe you would need to convert to a ...

Does anyone have any employment tips for a fresh class IV instructor? almost anywhere in canada works for me as i'm willing to relocate. we've all heard the negative jokes about the industry, economy, instructing etc, so please spare me.

thanks,
llj

what is the issue when you are transmitting and receiving properly, but can't hear yourself speaking when you push down the mic button? that is, you are getting through on the radio, you just can't hear yourself. even when speaking over the intercom i can hear myself, just not while transmitting. th...

i've heard that one of the more "successful" students of the group actually burnt up upon reentry into the atmosphere. apparently after looking at the maintenance reports, it was found that one of the heat absorbing panels on the shuttle must have fallen off, allowing the whole ship to burn up.

i don't hear much about float flying instructors. i think this would be a fun and challenging path to take towards the world of float flying. i'll be getting my commercial license and float endorsement by next year. how do you get that type of job? is there a typical number of float hours required? ...