Go figure pretty much sums it up. Never could figure out how laggards survive here, where they would no longer exist anyplace else.

The conversation is interesting but well beyond my pay grade. Regulatory requirements appear to change over time, never heard about this stuff. Pretty scary when you think about it, nobody else did either.

So, is this a mud slinging contest, or are you guys real engineers.

just another boring night at home so here I am surfing. first reaction, holy shit. after perusing some of the more informative posts, not so surprised but still perplexed. seems to me that the situation was a perfect setup to be hooped into the expectation trap. that new and badly placarded taxiway ...

Holy shit, thanks for the heads up on the above post. Hard for a simpleton such as myself who actually had zero issues for a total of 39 years to comprehend this sort of thing. Flying is easy, as long as you use common sense.

Totally confused.

A local skydiving outfit very near a major centre operating a twin otter and a couple of caravans on wheels is paying 3000 a month

Does jazz still fly the same dash 8-100's that I used to fly 30 years ago?

B208 There’s just no nicer way to describe it, but to people in this business who actually know what they’re doing you are a limited resource. I should clarify, I was referring to the industry beyond the aircraft circuit. Outside of that a crew is faced with innumerable decisions and cirumstances h...

Now ancient Tristar, which all had RB211. Also made serious smoke on cold days that today would be mistaken as some sort of engine fire. Out of coincidence, ended up flying one, can't hear anything in the flight deck.

Judging by what you are indicating, sounds like too much has happened too fast, so I would think it to be rather understandable to limp a bit. Sounds like a one off acute condition. I am not a doctor. Below is a silly link to an appropriate tc document. At the appropriate chapter, psychological and ...

Or, if you don't want the China pollution or live in Red Deer, you can always retrain as a mechanical engineer with a Bsc., and make between 46K and 95K, with a median of 66K as indicated below. https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Mechanical_Engineer/Salary Pilots warrant good pay of course, bu...

Over time, a long time now, I have been judged at one end of the goalpost as really good, and at the other, really bad. So it is widely subjective, and sadly, sometimes good old office politics play a role in the assessment when it should not. Not always and not alot, but it does happen. I've learne...

I second the above post. Never been in the military but have known enough guys to know that they have very little time (when starting out) all the while operating either complicated, high performance, or big equipment. Not that it really matters though. Stating the obvious, the job gets done. Also d...

So, all of the schoolteachers and salesman who own a laser pointer over 1mw in power to facilitate powerpoint presentations and the like, and just so happen to live in any of the three cities listed, who transport the pointer in their pocket from home to the workplace, and who have not read the mate...

Don't know for sure what medical weed would be viewed by TC, but pretty sure it would be a dis qualifier right now. TC is a reactive, and sadly, arcane system. Give it a decade and maybe things will change. It is quite educational to view the changing attitudes to these sort of things. I got addicte...

wow. the perfect human that makes no mistakes. lots of types like that who have plunged the world into debilitating misery. no thanks, will keep my slight human foibles and will continue to do good things, instead of hammering persons to death. didn't use pot because the jeopardy to a medical far ou...

yep, it's a pilot forum alright, with the rather novel notion that retiring as early as possible is the holy grail of life itself. know a small business guy who closed up shop at 80, not because he needed the money. another one, a specialized lawyer, going strong at 70, once again, not because of mo...

Still some holdouts incapable of recognizing age discrimination even when it’s laid out on a platter before their faces for years now. In the words of the almighty Donald...sad. But that doesn’t explain the desire to deny sick benefits to your co-workers. You guys have a mile wide mean streak that ...

No no, they have to do their minimum service before they get on with ac, I think it is 2 years. The attitude though is that is is just a stepping stone, so many could not be bothered to rock the boat so to speak. Bit of a shame since not all will get the job offer, leaving the leftovers at somewhat ...

I gotta laugh. Everybody has their shorts twisted around their private parts because of a dried up frikin plant. You would think we are in 17th century Saudi Arabia, where they still chop hands off for stealing a loaf of bread. The root crime of the bread stealers is the horrible condition of hunger...

The $127 million gain had nothing to do with training costs. Not to say that Air Canada won't see some savings in the training department, but the gain you refer to was booked because of pension plan accounting. It was an upfront recognition by the accountants and actuaries that the DB plan would b...

Ray, you may see this as an extension of Charter rights, I see it as an attempt at further transferring wealth from younger generations to older generations. The practical results of all of this is that younger generations will be left worse off at the expense of baby-boomers, all under the guise o...

I could write about many anecdotes, many of them, about the mindset of the newhires. Not the old guys who are not in the lottery game, and would not get hired in a billion years, but the newhires. So I will give you only one of many experiences I had the pleasure to witness. A person hired maybe two...

The poster a few above you said the FMC would not take you to the airport. I guess there is no waypoint there? So following your FD's to continue the approach apparently would not work. Too lazy to read the whole thread but I get the gist. I confirm to anybody out there that the FMC, if properly se...

Well, I do remember being in the bathroom of a european train when I was 8 years old, and you did in fact poop on the tracks.

Never encountered an airplane where you pooped into the sky though.

And transport is going to launch an investigation. The public service has become a fucking joke.

I hope success. Worried that many may not want to rock the boat so that their flow through to air canada would not be put in jeopardy.