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by sepia
Wed May 15, 2019 10:21 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: 737 Max 8 Simulators
Replies: 59
Views: 13538

Re: 737 Max 8 Simulators

The QRH page you posted isn't current and hasn't been since the fall.

If you believe MCAS is uncommanded trim and thus should be cut out anytime it runs how will it remain certified?

I think I'm done here. Enjoy the bigger Boeing's.
by sepia
Tue May 14, 2019 5:20 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: 737 Max 8 Simulators
Replies: 59
Views: 13538

Re: 737 Max 8 Simulators

There is nothing stopping the use of the autopilot. In fact, it shuts MCAS off. Using the electric trim switches on the control column turns MCAS off too while in manual flight. I think the idea is to keep things simple by having the same procedure for an MCAS event as a stab trim runaway, which MC...
by sepia
Mon May 13, 2019 4:50 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: 737 Max 8 Simulators
Replies: 59
Views: 13538

Re: 737 Max 8 Simulators

Confusedalot, How would an MCAS failure look differently in a simulator compared to a stab trim runaway? What are the differences in the emergency drill? Answer: there is no difference. Just stumbled on this...... You are 100% right, hit the switches and everything gets disabled. One caveat, never ...
by sepia
Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:29 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: C series
Replies: 78
Views: 32549

Re: C series

Looks like the CSeries, errr A220, is in the Navi magazine now! Any new developments at AC about possible routes? I saw YVR-BOS, Eastern Canada-Europe, and Hawaii mentioned in an older interview article with Ben Smith. Delta might be the first North American airline to operate into LCY. Unless Air ...
by sepia
Mon May 07, 2018 8:24 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: Exit Polls Showing Over 90% Strike Mandate Support
Replies: 66
Views: 21746

Re: Exit Polls Showing Over 90% Strike Mandate Support

Don’t think for a second that AC pilots are not loving WJ pilot turmoil. Remember they had a rumour going around that they would join ALPA too? What happened to that game plan? Must have been more of a playbook than a gameplan. They would love nothing more than to see WJ burn to the ground. It’s th...
by sepia
Mon May 07, 2018 7:48 am
Forum: WestJet
Topic: Exit Polls Showing Over 90% Strike Mandate Support
Replies: 66
Views: 21746

Re: Exit Polls Showing Over 90% Strike Mandate Support

Great post. Don’t think for a second that AC pilots are not loving WJ pilot turmoil. Remember they had a rumour going around that they would join ALPA too? What happened to that game plan? Must have been more of a playbook than a gameplan. They would love nothing more than to see WJ burn to the gro...
by sepia
Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:26 am
Forum: WestJet
Topic: 10 year take home pay
Replies: 49
Views: 14214

Re: 10 year take home pay

This isn't a post to brag, or try and turn this into a who's dick is the biggest. It's solely to give some perspective. A year 10 Air Canada 320 First Officer takes home well over twice what the WJ CAPTAIN does. The AC 320 FO could also use that additional money to buy any kind of retirement hedge. ...
by sepia
Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:21 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Cat II Operations CYYZ
Replies: 17
Views: 2870

Re: Cat II Operations CYYZ

There is a lot of incorrect information on this thread. I would strongly caution anyone taking something they read on avcanada and using it to make real world decisions.
by sepia
Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:07 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: When is AC hiring again?
Replies: 49
Views: 17722

Re: When is AC hiring again?

Any insiders know when AC is going to have an open posting? 30 pilots every month starting mid September. They haven't reopened the position online yet. It's my assumption that hiring at those numbers will deplete the PML in fairly short order. I would expect hiring of off the street candidates to ...
by sepia
Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:08 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Passenger Rights
Replies: 13
Views: 5411

Re: Passenger Rights

I don't see how one long-haul flight can be any more fatiguing than operating 10 legs in a day which is usually A LOT more work intensive, especially the smaller carriers with less automated machines and lenient CARS regs. I agree it shouldn't be a blanket policy, however, fatigue is fatigue is fat...
by sepia
Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:32 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Air Canada Pool
Replies: 1316
Views: 430128

Re: Air Canada Pool

Looks like 44 new hire positions on the Dec. bid, the Oct. bid had 57 I believe......so is that 101 new hire positions open now? Or is it just 44 new hire positions. Because they have only put approx. 16 through g/s since the Oct bid. You'd take the number they needed on the previous bid, subtract ...
by sepia
Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:11 am
Forum: WestJet
Topic: WestJet earns $44.7 million in second quarter
Replies: 69
Views: 14395

Re: WestJet earns $44.7 million in second quarter

Some will shoot holes in it I'm sure but hey look who is growing around Canada and look who is shrinking and for what reasons! :) Both Air Canada and Porter are projecting growth. Might want to do even the most rudimentary fact check before you post total nonsense. People might start to question th...
by sepia
Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:03 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Federal Court of Appeal Decison re Mandatory Retirement
Replies: 8
Views: 2782

Re: Federal Court of Appeal Decison re Mandatory Retirement

CLASSIC raymundo right there. Even when losing, NEVER ever forget to play the fear card. Yes despite losing here again, you're going to all lose your houses and owe me millions.
by sepia
Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:35 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Air Canada Interviews
Replies: 844
Views: 184784

Re: Air Canada Interviews

and after 6 years at AC on the EMJ you make roughly $69,000, after 6 years 6 years thats a long time, 6 years doesnt just come and go the uniform is cool so its all good i guess Year 4 on the EMJ I did 82k (per diems included). Someone with 6 years on the EMJ **COULD** hold the left seat of the EMJ...
by sepia
Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:08 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Mandatory Retirement Repealed!!!
Replies: 282
Views: 36860

Re: Mandatory Retirement Repealed!!!

Do you have even the slightest clue as to how liability works in a case like this? Call it shameless or whatever you like, but there's a zero percent chance that ACPA members are going to have a special assessment and have to pay for this. I think I have a slight clue about how this liability thing...
by sepia
Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:00 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Mandatory Retirement Repealed!!!
Replies: 282
Views: 36860

Re: Mandatory Retirement Repealed!!!

When a "Law" or a "Bill" is passed it has a date attached and the rules change moving forward. True enough, but the change in law also doesn't effect the nearly 200 cases grinding their excruciatingly slow way through the CHRT. They will still be decided on their merits. It would have been foolish ...
by sepia
Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:06 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Mandatory Retirement Repeal Passes 2nd Reading in Parliament
Replies: 358
Views: 33997

Re: Mandatory Retirement Repeal Passes 2nd Reading in Parlia

Air Canada twice got it's workers legislated back to work under some pretty dubious scenarios this year. Is it impossible that they could get an exemption? I realize that would rain on your told you so party, but could you guys be wrong one more time?
by sepia
Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:21 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Mandatory Retirement Repeal Passes 2nd Reading in Parliament
Replies: 358
Views: 33997

Re: Mandatory Retirement Repeal Passes 2nd Reading in Parlia

If it was as abysmally one sided as you fly till you die guys think, it would have been solved YEARS ago. Your failure to acknowledge that there's a possibility that things won't proceed exactly as you plan, makes it hard to take anything you say seriously. How many times have you said the end is im...
by sepia
Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:21 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Starting all over again in Canada
Replies: 5
Views: 2664

Re: Starting all over again in Canada

I am presently flying overseas, but am sitting at the bottom of the list with not much movement coming. Because of my distance from Canada, I am somewhat out of touch with Air Canada's hiring specifics. I really want to come home to Canada and am curious regarding: Starting Pay - Is it $37,000 (y1)...
by sepia
Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:26 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Mandatory Retirement Repeal Passes 2nd Reading in Parliament
Replies: 358
Views: 33997

Re: Mandatory Retirement Repeal Passes 2nd Reading in Parlia

Funny that the judge themselves are federally regulated, yet have a retirement age.

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