Is there any American example of a flag carrier buying a low wage vacation LCC?

altiplano wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:43 pm

I'd hardly call it a junior weighted list.

If you have 4500 pilots and hired 1000 in the last two years how can you not be junior weighted? That is almost 1/4 of your list and if the rest is more or less evenly spaced it brings the average years of service way down.

I do not think the alert is sent over "data".

I never said AC has a safety first culture.

I still don't know why everyone is surprised by Swoop. Yes, the pilots hate it. It was a move to undercut the pilots while demanding a part of the ULC market in Canada. WestJet has a safety first culture. Air Georgian doesn't. The two companies are fundamentally different in their approaches to ope...

Unfortunately, you can't claim this tax credit anymore. It has been eliminated for 2016.

Autopilot malfunction?

The autopilot can be turned off with a click of a button. Unless you are saying this pilot could not hand fly the approach. It happens these day.

Imagine making $24300 a month and only pocketing $11700 of it.

Guys a pitot static instrument failure or blockage is not going to bring down an airplane like this because the pilot can just switch to attitude+power. A gyro instrument failure is much harder to deal with.

Attitude indicator failure is insidious. It is not like at the flying school where someone sticks a cover on it while you are straight and level VMC. It can degrade slowly and still show sort of correct indication. If it happen as you are maneuvering for an approach and trying to manage a descent as...

It is hard to imagine what brings down a 4 engine turboprop in reportedly good weather. Flight control problem or inflight breakup of 40 year old airframe perhaps. Ice formation in the fuel? I wonder if the Chilean Air Force uses FSII fuel additive.

cncpc wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:56 pm

GPS gives groundspeed, and has standby gyro gear, doesn't it?

It is very difficult to ignore an artificial horizon that is giving you bad info. Even for an experienced flight instructor. A lot of people carry suction cup cover in their light aircraft for this reason.

Sounds like a a partial panel situation with the low weather being a factor. A graveyard spiral is a spiraling dive that can happen when you become disoriented, and when you have little or no visual reference to the horizon. Unfortunately, lots of graveyard spirals end with the airplane impacting th...

Speculation based on a witness that said "She looked up in time to see a plane flying out of control, doing what appeared to be a roll low in the sky."

There was an explosion on impact that lit up the whole sky according to another witness so I don't think it was out of fuel.

Any insights into that speed altitude graph in the Sun? I would say allowing the airspeed to drop below Vmca after an engine failure cause the airplane to roll over and he lose control. Weather shouldn't have been a factor...there was zero wind, overcast 400ft, 2SM visibility.... minimums are 530ft...

Are these aircraft GPS equip? How can they be 300m off course?

I have to wonder how big the pool is of diploma/degree graduates who have and want to pay $126k for a job. Some solid pre program research? Or just some board room high fiving what they see as a great plan. I would say this program is targeting wealthy immigrant that come from India, China, or midd...

Because of the Transat acquisition hiring will likely slow to a trickle. It won't actually stop though because of contractual obligations to Jazz pilot. Best bet for OTS applicant now is apply at Transat and failing that Jazz.

Kudos for doing what ever it take to get to AC. You made it.

It is a bit naive to say it is not even a possibility considering that is what the contract currently stipulates and the company has explicitly said it will honor that contract.

I suspect they found language in the collective agreement that will give a legal foothold to run Transat without merging the pilot. Notice he does not say he will merge the pilot but instead 'I will honor the collective agreement' *grin*. Of course ACPA will fight it but it will take forever.

Oh my god Air Canada so bad. No. How about some personal responsibility?

Wow that is quite good. You could tour the world for a month and only use one pass.

Is a pass used on each leg of a trip or does a flight outbound and return only burn one pass?