Mark Tayfel. I do not know you, but if you ever read this, you are my brother of the sky and I wish you all the best. I KNOW that I speak on behalf of many other brothers and sisters of the sky, that we support you, and hope you perserver. I really hope to see you on the line some day.


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If Cliff can't operate in an industry and compete in it safely, then he shouldn't be in it. I can't believe you just defended his operation claiming the Lodge owners/ Airlines/ are the reason he flies STD ridden Nava-whores with 1000 hour pilots. The man sets a culture of fuel skimming in old airpla...

So. No convictions for the owners!!!? Personally, I see more blame on those s0ns of $itches!!

Secret training missions to check out the F-18 Director in case of a strike? Hell, all they have to do is rehire G.W. and he can forage PPC'S for a new DH6 crew like he did for himself!

This company is so bad, it makes medicine sick.

NORTH oF YOU...........Jazz has hired around 8 college students as a test. I dont agree at all with it, but are you that disconnected to think a major airline would partake in such douchbaggary!!? Wake the F up!

Learn French huh? Thats been attempted in the public school system for a 100 years, it doesnt work. Not all schools are French Immersion. And I dont feel like buying a Rosseta Stone crash course just to make Quebec pilots/atc happy. Why dont you guys LEARN to obey ICAO law and talk English when you...

Yes, you do have HOT dames running around Quebec. But everyone I talk to is getting divorced from one. Whoop Whoop, pull out!

Learn French huh? Thats been attempted in the public school system for a 100 years, it doesnt work. Not all schools are French Immersion. And I dont feel like buying a Rosseta Stone crash course just to make Quebec pilots/atc happy. Why dont you guys LEARN to obey ICAO law and talk English when your...

Its awfully flattering that you call me son, makes me feel young. Well Cat, I'd certainly root for you to apply.....what would you have to lose? Nothing, but really gain all the admiration of the industry to turn that company around. And that would be the best pitch for an interview there....."I'll ...

I agree, but I was there when a new MD came and he tried to talk with everyone. No one trusted him, and by good measure because he turned out as a nasty. This is a very hard thing to extract from people, what they think of the company, especially if the one they are talking to is from management, ie...

Yes, but Rick would be smart if he hired someone like you, to save his bussiness and turn around the company's reputation amoung the passengers and industry. There's no price limit of keeping your bussiness.....but they will shit the bed on it.

Maybe they are on the hunt for GW?

You mean, West Coast Scare!

Management better bite the bullet, hire some balls and class for CP, or watch this ship slowly sink and miss out on the Olympic gravy train and new digs at the Convention Centre.

I was landing a floatplane on the Indian Ocean and just as I was about to touch the water during the flare, a happy looking dolphin popped out of the water in front of us. I swear to god, it was the worst feeling in world thinking that you had just killed Flipper . We turned the aircarft around afte...

I read that the current CP has stepped down. But what I think a lot of people don't know is that the previous CP to him was the more calamitious one. I agree with kg 110%. All quotes by him have sounded as acurate as I have heard yet. The REASON this topic is still alive and well getting hits and re...

Yeah, viccoastdog, I was wondering also how the pilot got into the fog. Could have been one of those days where there was a low overcast that just kept getting lower as he approached the harbour and just decided to try to land?

This is how WCA might fix their problems. Hire for competence not people who seem like they may stay a long time regardless of having hammed fists or a bit of a drinking problem or are foreign and might be subserviant or are retired from the airline job and wont go anywhere else.................... ...

Okay, lets compare two company's together. Harbour Air versus West Coast Air: Both do the same job and roughly the same destinations, and are quite close in size. One company, knows how it works. The other doesn't. Harbour Air starts from the top down, and it equates into a reputable, professional, ...

Viccoastdog, your request is understood. But what I am saying through all these threads is the root of the problem. Managment is indirectly causing these incidents and accidents. How? By taking the easy and cheap route, upgrading or hiring too many under qualified pilots, hiring managers that are un...

Key word there you mentioned, MOST of it was Captain. Limited FO time, the perspective is alot different, you should know that with all your GODLY experience. Cat, I fly with, respect, learn from, and look up to older pilots everyday I go to work. All Im saying is that the worst and most dangerous b...

Cat, "you have seen more than I can imagine", ..................so I guess you zero'd in everyone you flew with that tried to do something dangerous? Sounds like a great dream, I hope I have one of those someday. Bottom line is that WCA, is cognizant about one, and only one thing. Making money at th...

Snoop dawg, I am not generalizing ALL older captains. But, for the most part, the worst ones are the older ones, because they have been doing their old tricks for years in float flying. Its just hasnt caught up to them all of them yet. I'll tell both of you this, I've never undermined my co-workers,...

Hmmmmm. I agree with you, but I honestly believe in what goes around, comes around. WCA has dished out alot of corn gravy, and now it's pouring back on them with a Union. Do you think those guys want to pay the extra Union dues each month and all the other stuff that comes along with it? I doubt it,...

Yeah, well you musta had a lot of jobs. Easier said than done brother. I've never been intimidated, nor pushed into flying when I knew it was wrong. But that still doesnt cover mistreatment in wages, cutting people out of upgrades, cutting back on benefits etc. If a union helps keep WCA managment in...