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- Sun Dec 08, 2019 12:15 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Overseas Flying
- Replies: 2
- Views: 287
Re: Overseas Flying
Stick it out here, get your first job, and some experience, and then go overseas when you have something to offer. Why would the Euros/Aussies/Wherevers give you your first job over a local kid who knows the language and the area, and isn't going to f@@k off back to Canada as soon as he's gained som...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:16 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: The PM needs a new ride
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1505
Re: The PM needs a new ride
Interesting, that....how does a jet that size just move forward despite "the chocks being in place and the parking brake on." Or did someone f@@k up, and now they're arse covering? Also, despite cries from various quarters about the 'MSM' and their 'left-wing bias', you'll note the bias in linking t...
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Operating different machines.
- Replies: 99
- Views: 2898
Re: Operating different machines.
Why should we care what the cognitive demands are (or aren't) of driving a truck or bus? We're pilots. If we want to drive a big vehicle, then quit flying and go and do so; conversely, quit driving a bus, and take some flying lessons. 

- Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:34 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Cherokee Six missing near Kingston?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 7136
Re: Cherokee Six missing near Kingston?
Geez
...not sure that I'd be setting off VFR into wx like that with darkness coming on.

- Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:29 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Conair
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1881
Re: Conair
They're probably asking for a very particular set of skills - accumulated over a long career... Firefighting's not exactly sitting in the right seat of a Q, ILS to ILS, after 1.5 years of instructing...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 12:17 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Whats the best headset to get
- Replies: 12
- Views: 674
Re: Whats the best headset to get
The Juice is back!
BAck to your old gig in the flatlands?
In my previous gig on a Cl415, I used Bose A20s - no complaints there even after 2 four hour sessions.
Now, I’m on a light business jet, and most often use a set of Lightspeed Zulus.
Of course, YMMV.
BAck to your old gig in the flatlands?
In my previous gig on a Cl415, I used Bose A20s - no complaints there even after 2 four hour sessions.
Now, I’m on a light business jet, and most often use a set of Lightspeed Zulus.
Of course, YMMV.
- Thu Nov 21, 2019 1:35 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Jazz to launch pay for type rating program
- Replies: 277
- Views: 11576
Re: Jazz to launch pay for type rating program
Hmm, Seneca, hey?
So an RJ or Q will be the first plane that the actually retract the gear on?! And what happens when they get a xwind greater than 10 knots?
So an RJ or Q will be the first plane that the actually retract the gear on?! And what happens when they get a xwind greater than 10 knots?
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 11:16 am
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Perimeter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 558
Re: Perimeter
Can’t speak to the interview, but for the sim eval, I’d imagine that you’d get (with some small variation) the standard two approaches and a hold, with an engine failure in the missed off one approach, and a single engined landing for the other.
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:54 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Regional Career
- Replies: 88
- Views: 11542
Re: Regional Career
I don’t think much more constructive is going to come of this.
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Harbour Air
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7978
Re: One List
At this rate, I don't expect to hit mainline until I am at least 35. Ohh, noes! In the not-too-far-ago past, I ran into my initial PPL flight instructor in the concourse in YVR. He'd been at JAzz for ~5years at that point, and was looking at about the same before an upgrade, let alone a shot at mai...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:26 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Hawker Hurricane
- Replies: 3
- Views: 583
Re: Hawker Hurricane
"will only be able to start up and taxi but never fly." I wonder if that's a financial problem, or if there are structural problems with the machine? Good to see it restored, though!
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 8:18 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Air Canada staff will no longer greet 'ladies and gentlemen' onboard planes
- Replies: 81
- Views: 4371
Re: Air Canada staff will no longer greet 'ladies and gentlemen' onboard planes
Capt. Underpants wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:19 pmFour pages of wasted bandwidth so luddites can have their say on something that has no bearing on their own lives.
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 5:01 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Airman vs. Airperson Discussion/Poll
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1501
Re: Airman vs. Airperson Discussion/Poll
Just for the record, I wasn't the censor! I suspect that the originator of the term "Airman" didn't intend to imply anything with the suffix ~man - it was simply common usage at the time. Also, as there have been women involved with aviation since pretty much the get-go, I'm sure that they were quit...
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:01 am
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: $90k or higher.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2810
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:16 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: CATSA nonsense
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3225
Re: CATSA nonsense
So I was thinking about this while I was on a layover at a smaller airport yesterday. I'm not subject to the CATSA rigmarole at my present position, so we parked on the ramp, and marched through the locking gate in the fence next to the FSS, and then around the front of the terminal and through the ...
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Westjet v. Jazz
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2376
Re: Westjet v. Jazz
Apply to both, and see who calls you first? There's no guarantee that either of them will...
- Sun Sep 22, 2019 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Thomas Cook on the edge of bankrupcy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4392
Re: Thomas Cook on the edge of bankrupcy
According to The Guardian, talks fell through at 2100 BST this evening, and so they're done...largest peacetime repatriation in British history. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/22/thomas-cook-in-last-ditch-talks-to-avoid-collapse Thomas Cook was heading into insolvency on Sunday night ...
- Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Federal Election — aircraft use
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3774
Re: Federal Election — aircraft use
Wow, some touchy people in here!
I read the query as beiing more out of interest, along the lines of: "do regular crews bid 'election special' for a three day pairing," rather than: " is pilot X going to be staying in room y at the CY__ Holiday Inn on Sunday October 17th?"
I read the query as beiing more out of interest, along the lines of: "do regular crews bid 'election special' for a three day pairing," rather than: " is pilot X going to be staying in room y at the CY__ Holiday Inn on Sunday October 17th?"
- Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:27 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Interim bid out
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7657
Re: Interim bid out
Can someone please explain this for those of us not in the know?
Is WB FO a lousy job? Or are you at the botl, and have a crappy schedule? Why would it be so bad on flat pay? Four years from now you and your peers will go to formula, and everyone's equal again, no?

Is WB FO a lousy job? Or are you at the botl, and have a crappy schedule? Why would it be so bad on flat pay? Four years from now you and your peers will go to formula, and everyone's equal again, no?


- Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:25 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Reverser Actually Deployed in Flight
- Replies: 4
- Views: 964
Re: Reverser Actually Deployed in Flight
Not so sure that I'd be in a hurry to press the 'Test' button for any system that was displaying an abnormality...but then, I might be Monday morning quarterbacking..
- Sat Aug 31, 2019 1:46 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Are you a pilot-in-waiting?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2722
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:58 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr Citation Latitude off runway in flames
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1939
Re: NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr Citation Latitude off runway in flames
^
Levity aside, I'm glad that all are ok. There's been too many that haven't recently...

Levity aside, I'm glad that all are ok. There's been too many that haven't recently...
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:56 pm
- Forum: WestJet Encore
- Topic: Ground school classes for 2019
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4452
Re: Ground school classes for 2019
Please
F**k
Off
Slang for getting turned down at your choice of employer.
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:42 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr Citation Latitude off runway in flames
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1939
Re: NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr Citation Latitude off runway in flames
I'm surprised, being NASCAR and all, that they didn't go off the left side of the runway...