The only way to have ‘career’ is to also have job security. Ask yourself if you truly have that (30-45 years) at any regional airline. How many bankruptcies has AC been through in 40 years? Nobody has 40 years of job security in aviation, nobody. #1 seniority guy at Sky service wasn't helped by sen...

Cause 100 grand "all in" is only slightly more than a 90 grand king air job.

Encore is 100% owned, they can call the bluff and even strike if WJ wants to play the CPA game and threaten to pull the contract. Encore is a CPA WJ gave to themselves. Can't imagine they would shoot themselves in the foot. Besides, Encore is already having enough staffing troubles. Reducing the WAW...

I'll call you whatever you want to be called. As long as you behave and follow crew instructions. I'm not at all concerned about what anatomy you have or you wish you had.

Read this whole thread and decide if EVAS is worth your time.

My advice, get the Canadian ATPL, get the right to work in Canada, THEN apply to companies other than EVAS.

Make your millions flying overseas, come back to Canada to spend some time with family. Buy the house with cash and get a crap paying job to keep entertained until retirement in a couple years.

My company is stable by 500' in VMC. Usually dropping the gear around 1200-1800, a little earlier in IMC. My type probably goes half the speed of an A350, so the SOPs are reflective of the different aircraft operating requirements.

Not sure GGN is actually more opportunity for pilots. More like assign 2 pilots the work of 3. So actually less pilot jobs since they overwork their crews so badly.

"Get in, sit down, shut up. We don't care what downstairs parts you have or wish you had. If there's anything we can do to make your flight more pleasurable, please write it down on your napkin and deposit it into the garbage bin at the end of the flight"

If the company is squeezing pilot salaries, just to survive, it's already too late. It's a common excuse used by management, but I don't buy it. Low pay means pilot attrition, hiring struggles and cancelled flights. Cancel one wide body flight, especially in Europe and you'll probably have paid for ...

I'd rather make 20k for a whole year than 5k for 2 months before getting laid off.

Haha. Puts a whole new twist on "airman", its "air-mammal" now.

Don't care, my employer pays for it. As does everybody else's employer. As did yours when you worked for them. I go in, do my job and go home. I treat the plane the same way and it's even more expensive than a sim. Go in, do my job as trained, do it safely and efficiently, then go home. I don't coun...

Read an article on the Trudeau planes. The 737 Jurassic burns 500L an hour more than the NG. That's from the mainstream media, so not giving it a ton of credit, but I'm sure it's in the right ballpark. I don't buy the life cycle argument of the old planes either. Planes burn a significant amount of ...

Flying an Airbus sim or really any sim isn't a special thing, or a noteworthy story and nobody cares. Thousands of pilots have flown an Airbus sim and tens of thousands more have flown a sim representing other models, from Caravan to A380. It's like saying I have experience in a 152, so does my dog ...

There's a difference between flying a plane, ignoring sterile cockpit rules, SOPs, etc. and horsing around in the sim. Just cause you can do circuits at 300' in a A320 doesn't mean that you should or would do it in reality. Hell, most people screw around in the sim. It can be useful to learn the man...

Sounds very similar to the pilot "shortage".

Wanna be treated like crap, paid very little and work in either a shithole remote town or a very expensive city? Try aviation!

Trump isn't smart, he's lucky. Daddy made him rich, then he had one good venture and quite a number of failures. He's an attention whore, hence the reality TV shows and his behaviour as president. He doesn't do smart things, he just does what will make his fan base give him more attention, racism, s...

Southwest to Boeing: please please, common type rating, online ground school only. Boeing response (should have been): sorry, the new fuel efficient engine placement...MCAS...this plane needs a 1 day conversion course including 1 sim session. If you don't like that, we're still taking orders for the...

Not that I'm disagreeing, but what does this have to do with the TSB report?

It states that the pilot initiated a go-around and that the engine was developing significant power at the time of impact.

The OP states that he is a dual citizen. In brackets near the bottom.

Every pilot I know with US citizenship or the ability to work overseas has left Canada. Usually people stay for family ties in Canada. If there aren't any, there's more money and/or better working conditions abroad.

Some US regionals pay their FOs better than Canadian regionals pay the captains. They have better flight and duty time rules than even the new ones coming to Canada next December. It is all a matter of perspective. In your position, I would not hesitate, US regional! Pay better, flight and duty rule...

What does skycare want with a jet? Well the obvious answer is to fly it and make money with it. Getting into the jet world adds a new dimension to their operation. It's quite a divergence from their current business model, prop planes serving reserves. To buy a jet that uses more runway than at any...

My understanding of the reason for lower alternate requirements with 2 usable precision approaches is to do with facility malfunctions. If the weather is 600-2, and the localizer breaks, just use the non-precision approach as it's still likely 500' and land-able. With 400-1 and two precision approac...

A couple weeks ago, I was having an alternates discussion with my company. Weather was pretty crap at destination, but they wanted me to try anyway. So immediately I'm thinking I want a good alternate, not something marginally legal. So I picked an alternate 200 miles west. Let's pretend it was 1000...