Any ex-Cdn pilot who was due to retire during the 6 years ta1 was to be in effect got something they never had before: their time at Cdn counted towards the Top Hat, or serp. That is the 25000$/yr difference. Payable to a very specific group. Nothing to do with mpu increases.

Counterpoint: you have no idea. TA1 simply took money from junior pilots and new hires to pay for increases to ex-Cdn soon to be retires. The negots committee was simply paying themselves in retirement with the wages and pensions of the yet to be hired. To wit: ta1 allowed Cdn pilots to qualify All ...

Flyer:

The shapes-and-sizes thing is the cog-test (cognitive test). The other one is the psych-eval. Three tests in one. The bar-on EQI, the Tais and some other thing I can't remember.

Hope you did well.

If you have 250 hours, there is no better time than now to get hired in your first job. Every operator posts what they figure is the best the job market can handle. On average, what they want and what they can get has a ratio of 2:1. Six years ago, it was 1000 hrs to throw bags. Now its 500 hrs to g...

Spruce,

Hehe. Type b. for sure.

Swerved, No curling for me. No head for my broom (hmm) , and its + 30 down here, anyways. Find a good tourney and I might have to get a new one and come up. Visiting team in the BBQ bonspiel, perhaps? That would be fun. And tell that deep-throated woman of yours (in preparation) that her hands are n...

Pie lot,

Pardon? Hehe. Call me, mutt. We'll go out next time I'm "enjoying" the ambiance at the elephant. How ya gonna get the mountie off my couch so I can sleep?

Endless, I think it was 2002. Damn that seems like a long time ago now, but I guess it wasn't really. The original post got trashed after two days- with the still-standing record of evoking at least one death threat per day. :lol: The second version I sooo considerately put up lasted quite a while l...

I was looking around for that "original" top 10 post, but it must have vanished a while ago. Shame, I didn't keep a copy either.

I hear music. It’s playing, and pilots are starting the moving dance everywhere. I offer ten excellent reasons to move while the moving is good. 1. You don’t ever want to have to wonder… … how the snotty-nosed, teething and drooling noskill aviation neophyte currently sitting to your right ended up ...

the rp thing sounds like it sucks, but you won't see 2 day layovers in HKG for a damn long while if you go EMJ fo. So if the number they give you offers RP, good enough. Have fun, get drunk in new and exotic places, and bid your way into the money as soon as you can. the union is not playing ball on...

No. The little ones, like their daddy, would be called "In the Red"

(removes coffee from nose, monitor)

Bravo Henri! No sane airline could resist hiring someone with such Wasaga-beach charisma. Good luck on the Sim eval, and don't let that left-seat warmer tell you anything during it, either.

That cow on the runway should have mooooved.

The Calpa A/O-Air BC-Air Nova vs. Air Canada/Acpa thing was decided in the courts over five years ago. The bad blood came from both groups not ever wanting to help each other out in the bad times. If AC laid off, the regionals wanted nothing to do with employing the furloughed AC pilots. Then when t...

Douglas Adams explored "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things" in his Dirk Gently series. This involved going out on the highway and following a random car to it's destination. This, apparently, rarely gets you where you want to go, but instead delivers you to where you need to be. SO, if...

Will the WJ employees get Loss-sharing bills this month instead of profit-sharing cheques?

Northpilot: Yah, we used to send the rookies up to socc to "get the keys for the 767 because the cpt forgot his, and hurry, because they're out in 20 min.". One of them came back with a set of keys some wag in dispatch offered him, and proceeded to the flightdeck to save the day. The pilots laughed ...

You will be missed, Duke. Thank-you for letting us have a look into your wonderful life. Doing so has made ours more than a little better.

C-hris: V-nav is as yet not authorized for use shooting gps approaches. I suspect it's coming with WAAS and the placement of ground-based gps trancievers at airports, but as of yet you can't use it at all. They just have a place for it on the plates in anticipation. When it does come in, I guess the...

Benwa: You're not right. :lol: :P At least about the gps-alternate. They have changed the rules. You can file a gps-only airport as an alternate (as in no adf onsite, gps approach only) under a bunch of conditions. If the airport has a traditional approach aid, you have to use those minima for alter...

Benwa: You're right. Forgot that airoutes come in the vor/vor format too. Frankly, never flown on one in that format either. Most of them are adf somewhere along the line. Aerocourse was probably assuming the adf thing in the original question, hence the gps/adf answer. They do need to specify the r...

NO surprise there. The ywg and yul mx bases were political bases in the first place. As as private company now, all political bets are off. Those layoffs are just a signal that AC is (hopefully) no longer going to act as an employment agency for Ottawa, being forced to shore up crappy economies plac...

C-hris: The rule is actually fairly simple: The rule is based on where you are flying and what you need to get there. The last of a whole heap of regs about it says: 605.11 to 605.13   Reserved (j) sufficient radio navigation equipment to permit the pilot, in the event of the failure at any stage of...

C-Eh: Hmmm. Just ask many of the senior ex-CDN co-pilots what a looong time is. Flew jumpseat with a '37 crew a few years back (when you could still do that). The co-pilot had 25 years in already and said he would never hold a Cpt's spot. Just because he had been hired at the end of a long run of hi...