Conair has a lot of great people working there, and Matt Bradley is a good CEO. They give you a week off on a regular schedule. Due to the nature of the work, things can change and an open mindset is needed. Go for it and try it - just be open and honest with the company when they hire you and ask ...

If I had to guess it was for a safe let down over the ocean so you could .. run to Rivers Inlet.

Still do the same thing to Bella Coola from Bella Bella on occasion.

Schedule? 130 day contract unless you got a 100 day (less common). Two stretches of 7 days off to deal with 3/30 and 5/42. Normal shift 10-22 but can be adjusted because when things are burning.. Alerts come out day before. Blue is like reserve. Yellow is on base but depending how far you are you ca...

Although we weren’t dispatched to those areas… It’s a tough job. *extends a cold beer in salute* TPC Hahaha.. all of my friends and family think I'm a hero when most of my summer was spent in frivolous pursuits. Ah yes. Ample amounts of downtime spent drinking beer! Not sure who you are flying for ...

Firecrews. Yellowknife, Kelowna, Shuswap…….and probably a ton more places this year in Canada. Thank YOU to our firebomber crews….and our firefighters. Always answering the call. You guys totally, friggin ROCK! Heroes. Well done. (I hope this year — my wife’s families house made it through, and the...

FL030 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:20 pm What's a taxi package?

By inference its a dumbed-down taxi chart you can blindly follow and keep you safe with a bunch of suggested routes, warnings, or do-nots.

For every person saying that we need to do the incredibly foolish plans our government wants us to do, just remember this….. If we had literally shut down the economy completely at the start of Covid and kept it shut down(not one engine allowed to operate, all electrical power generation stopped, i...

Was looking for some contract crew for the winter. Talked to the guys in Montana. Nope they pay them year round to keep them in the lineup...... Most companies in the states are actually looking at there people as a resource to manage, not just exploit and dump in the garbage They pay you, but they...

Actually the pilots made a stand to try and get the cockpits upgraded with a fancier one. Said they were unsafe to operate with what they had. They ended up parked for a couple of years with the pilots sitting at home on the payroll until it was decided they would be put up for sale. You don’t know...

Declared an emergency for being short 75 lbs of fuel….????? Succumbing to macho BS like this is why pilots get in trouble. Damn right I’m declaring an emergency. I’ll do it for 1lb of fuel. Who am I trying to impress? Who are you trying to impress? Is there some sort of cost to declaring an emergen...

Air Canada Cuba flights are embargoed for MyID.

Longueuil QC Citing the lingering effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on aviation markets and emerging competition from General Electric Aviation with their new Catalyst turboprop, Pratt & Whitney Canada has been looking to both increase productivity, and bring in more revenue. In a bold move remi...

I fly one of them every so often.

Nice low time bird… …but it’s showing its age in other ways now.

I have both an iPhone 14 and an Apple Watch Ultra with this feature and love the piece of mind this brings.

You’ll probably start out as bird dog or right seat on the Q unless you have firefighting experience or bring seaplane and/or tailwheel time to the table for SEAT. My impression is that jet time doesn’t matter unless it’s specialty flying. The only time you’re doing similar flying to an airline/char...

There is a huge forum post from ages ago you should look up. And conair put this out too https://conair.ca/recent-news/what-it-takes-to-be-an-airtanker-pilot?fbclid=IwAR2_eWYurGdb3-UZovcHz25Yr2X7neFudLMc64CAPB7p4sW3CcpX4pPINoo September 2020 – Each year hundreds of pilots from around the globe reac...

Observation and experience. There are sites that have what each codes mean.. ..some are lower fares, some are for points and upgrades etc. None of them show how many seats there are.. if they have 9 open seats and really want to fill them they could have all buckets open, but it’s not my experience....

Generally one international trip a year and half a dozen or so smaller ones. Always interline. Never been bumped. I just use the MyID app and check fare buckets. If I see G9 on Air Canada I know they are desperate to fill up the plane and I’ll get a seat assignment via online check-in and probably g...

By mapping do you mean "mapping" the fire, or bug mapping Low was sometimes difficult if the fire was in a hanging canyon wall, that sort of thing, and I eventually stopped being intensely interested in what "fuel" there was down there. I limited low level looksees to pretty flat bench terrain, and...

Zero. I will pick the pilot who has better decision making skills over flying skills, any day. I got a resume from a guy who bragged that he had an engine failure on takeoff and missed several overhead wires and vehicles to land it on a highway without a scratch…… Maybe he forgot that I was the AME ...

Using a single engine aircraft in a low level dangerous environment over forested areas is a recipe for disaster. No, it's not. I have hundreds of hours in single engine aircraft right down on the deck counting squirrels and God knows what else mapping fires for BCFS. Back in the day, we complicate...

Except in a normal year our hospitals and ICU's don't overflow from these competitive illnesses and and cancel other important surgeries? Where would we be at if we did nothing at all? Even with our actions it's still already killed more people than influenza has in the last decade. We ran out of t...

It is going to be hard on those in BC, where fuel prices are a LOT higher than Ontario right now. I don't feel too bad about Alberta, because they have had successive governments who don't seem interested in diversification of their economy. But really, they are just going down the easy path, as mo...

If any of those airlines fail you can bet that there will be expansions or startups to fill the void.. buying up existing aircraft and crews to do it. If there’s no money, no travel.. then all the more reason not to pump public dollars into private enterprise. It should be the shareholders and credi...

:o The nose gear is aided by the wind..." The Arrow's nose gear extends forward against the airflow. I'm not sure that the wind helps it. I think that big spring is what pulls it into the locked position. https://www.texasairsalvage.com/PartingOutPics/5-20131125-113151.JPG Yes you are right. I was c...