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by altiplano
Sun Jul 06, 2025 8:53 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Sim Evaluation
Replies: 32
Views: 4608

Re: Sim Evaluation

^ ^ ^ That. Other than when you are assigned a position in your first week at the airline, everyone junior in a position chose to be there. They could go to a position with a better relative seniority and have a better schedule. Or wait not very long in any NB FO position and find themselves well up...
by altiplano
Fri Jun 20, 2025 7:46 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant
Replies: 82
Views: 9036

Re: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant

Full circle. That's part of it isn't it... scarcity of labour. And that isn't just because of NavCanada's recruitment screw ups.
by altiplano
Fri Jun 20, 2025 6:07 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant
Replies: 82
Views: 9036

Re: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant

I reject your assessment and the data supports that there are more LOS incidents in Canada as a ratio to traffic volume. Canada is 1/10th of the volume of airline traffic the US sees and a fraction of the GA and all in a much much larger area with virtually no traffic density. We have very few large...
by altiplano
Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:57 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant
Replies: 82
Views: 9036

Re: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant

Hyperbole. Volume - The US is the largest volume of traffic in the world and extremely dense sectors all in less airspace. Their challenges are so much greater than those in Canada. Even so, pull the US out though? Look at the rest of the western world? Denser airspace, more volume, better performan...
by altiplano
Thu Jun 19, 2025 5:47 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant
Replies: 82
Views: 9036

Re: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant

What's not standard is "user pay" in this country and the fact that all the air navigation charges are passed through to the passengers right on their tickets. There's nobody with any teeth to hold the service to some semblance of accountability. It's clear as day to anyone that's been around this i...
by altiplano
Tue Jun 17, 2025 5:29 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant
Replies: 82
Views: 9036

Re: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant

That's a pretty mundane looking BOD. I don't see anyone on there that stands out, 1 retired AC office executive that worked on the commercial side, not the operational side. Really, a bunch of patronage appointments.

And advisory committees are just lip service, there's no directing happening there.
by altiplano
Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:07 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant
Replies: 82
Views: 9036

Re: CBC coverage- Pilot’s frustrated ATC rant

Legal job action or strike action is different than coordinated book offs for personal benefit. If NavCanada controllers want to earn more they need to get it at the table, not by what amounts to defrauding airlines and the public and negatively effects thousands of people every day. And those not i...
by altiplano
Sat Jun 14, 2025 9:31 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 76
Views: 23518

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

The thing you guys don't get... it's not this seniority block or that seniority block or this age or that age... There are company suck-asses at every level of this pilot list that would stab their own mothers to get a shot at pleasing some low level flight ops manager in this place. It's unreal the...
by altiplano
Sat Jun 07, 2025 7:53 pm
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: YVR center capacity
Replies: 14
Views: 4947

Re: YVR center capacity

I disagree. There are already qualified controllers in the military working terminal seats and towers. They can navigate aircraft to precision approach minima with radar vectors alone and you're trying to tell me they can't control high level airspace? Or let planes connect the dots on YVR arrivals ...
by altiplano
Fri Jun 06, 2025 7:09 am
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: YVR center capacity
Replies: 14
Views: 4947

Re: YVR center capacity

It's corruption pure and simple. The people in the yvr acc are corrupt, they are gaming the system to their own benefit, and they don't care how many airlines they rip off to do it, they don't care how many passengers they inconvenience, they don't even care how many career paths they derail. They ...
by altiplano
Fri May 23, 2025 2:53 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Best company for commuters?
Replies: 19
Views: 3799

Re: Best company for commuters?

There are advantages to both... I've both lived in base and been a commuter. Whatever floats your boat. In base pilots can be happy that commuters aren't taking their OT or bidding junior to senior positions leaving quicker advancement for some, commuters can be happy that there are fewer people loo...
by altiplano
Sun May 18, 2025 8:29 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 76
Views: 23518

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

Yeah. you're right, straight into regular pattern with MTV/LOFT for first sequence is current practise. Maybe it used to be LOE in first recurrent sequence and it changed, whatever... been a while since I did a course. MT/MTV - it's all the same though when it comes down to it, an IFR ride like all ...
by altiplano
Sat May 17, 2025 7:30 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 76
Views: 23518

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

Isn't it LOE on first recurrent sequence on type? So would be MT/LOE? Or do they do MTV/LOE?
by altiplano
Sat May 17, 2025 12:39 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Best company for commuters?
Replies: 19
Views: 3799

Re: Best company for commuters?

ZFW limit at 73 pax? I'm surprised... I would think more or less nil cargo on that flight. Aircraft is designed to take full loads.
by altiplano
Sat May 17, 2025 11:25 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Best company for commuters?
Replies: 19
Views: 3799

Re: Best company for commuters?

Why would they load restrict that flight? Short sector, even with fuel for a SEA alternate there would be oodles of payload...

And if it was full of people in the back how could w&b restrict J/S occupancy?
by altiplano
Wed May 14, 2025 10:42 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 76
Views: 23518

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

If you're on a leave like parental leave, that's a protected leave, they can't touch you for that. But intimidating with meetings over book offs is just another AC card replayed from years past... "Our data shows that 75% of your book offs are on weekend trips" "Because I work every weekend" "Can yo...
by altiplano
Wed May 14, 2025 7:10 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 27344

Re: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

Street driving city pickup truck is not a "lifted truck."
by altiplano
Tue May 13, 2025 4:20 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 76
Views: 23518

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

LOL... I'm just saying, stay under the radar... having multiple managers know you for your various issues in your first few months isn't a good start. Pass your training and stay under the radar for a year... that's all you have to do as a new hire. Complaining to managers about shit that is just a ...
by altiplano
Mon May 12, 2025 2:36 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 76
Views: 23518

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I’ll add that it takes quite a bit for a company to cut their losses on training, obviously the future training problems were taken into account! Training failures the company will typically go quite a ways with... eventually the writing is in the wall though and experience levels coming in have ne...
by altiplano
Sun May 11, 2025 7:59 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 27344

Re: When Albert separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

Last I recall, Liberals were forcing us to do medical procedures against our free will too. Experimental vaccines that proved to not even work in the end - turns out they all owned shares though, worked for what they were trying to do. Just like the climate alarmism and everything they're mandating ...
by altiplano
Sun May 11, 2025 11:33 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 27344

Re: When Albert separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

‘Bob’ wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 1:22 pm And none of those are regulating your clothing, holding you indefinitely without charges or trial, or telling you what you can and can’t do with your private parts like conservatives have done and are doing south of the border.
False equivalence.
by altiplano
Fri May 09, 2025 7:27 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 27344

Re: When Albert separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

I didn't realize that was what the "lifted truck" comment was referencing, just assumed that it was chosen as a stereotypical idea for Liberals to ban. My point was that since present Liberal policies will discontinue the sale of ICE by 2035, that would effectively ban lifted trucks because nobody i...
by altiplano
Fri May 09, 2025 2:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 27344

Re: When Albert separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

I don't know what you're talking about "AI Carney video" - the Liberal enacted policy under Trudeau and still in place is to ban the sale of new ICE vehicles by 2035.
by altiplano
Fri May 09, 2025 3:48 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 27344

Re: When Albert separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

There are few things larger and more intrusive into people’s lives than ‘small’ conservative governments. Because you have to manage your own life? Make your own decisions? The last 10 years of Liberals have intruded into Canadians lives more than any government in modern times. You get the good wi...
by altiplano
Fri May 09, 2025 3:48 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 27344

Re: When Albert separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

There are few things larger and more intrusive into people’s lives than ‘small’ conservative governments. Because you have to manage your own life? Make your own decisions? The last 10 years of Liberals have intruded into Canadians lives more than any government in modern times. You get the good wi...

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