Quit your airline job to go fly a Beech to qualify for a better airline job? What an industry. And people wonder why that AC guy forged his ATPL. He was probably 0.1 hours short in some pointless category like night xc PIC and facing having to pay for it. Exactly. TC is backwards. How does leaving ...

Any word on new routes or any other substance from this partnership yet?

Perfect thanks! Makes sense to me.

During flight training we did a number of mutual flights bombing around doing simulated ifr cross country flights. We were told that if we were acting as PM, we couldn't log the hours. I never thought twice about it, but I'm curious if there's a cars reference out there for why that is. If the PF wa...

You’ve grossly underestimated food costs. A week of groceries in HK will set you back at least $200 already. Unless you’re keen on eating from dai pai dong regularly. Thank you, I appreciate the correction. The figures I wrote down were for groceries per week and clearly I clearly failed to adjust ...

90k in HK is no better than 37k in Canada. Go ahead and try it... Ok.. here's a comparison based on minimum pay (minimum guarantee, no per diems, etc). Jazz First Officer Pay: Hourly rate (based on 2% pay increase): $39.74/hr Minimum monthly guarantee: 77.5 hrs --> pulled from airline pilot central...

Ok good to know. Glad it's not just me!

Got in with high 60's and low 70's a few years ago. You'll be ok. Are you in from Ontario? What level math and English course did you take (University/College)? Negative, I came from Alberta. I took the equivalents of English and Math 30-1. Can’t remember what the Ontario equivalent is. I would str...

Thank you for the reply. That’s crazy. Everything I’ve been offered has been more than a year on the ramp with 2 year bonds once on a plane. Maybe I’ll have to be a bit more patient and see if any other opportunities open up.

I’ve received a couple job offers to start on the ramp and I’m just wondering what you think would be a reasonable wait time on the ramp these days. I’m hoping I can snag a flying job right off the bat, but if luck isn’t on my side, I want to at least make sure I’m not making a choice that will have...

I'm interested too. Seems like a really cool place to work.

I feel like a Encore is the most secure choice. Encore guarantees you a spot at Mainline WS as opposed to just an interview at AC if you went with Jazz. If you chose Encore, you could always jump ship too and apply to mainline AC with the comfort of still having a mainline job guaranteed if you got ...

I went to school with the FO My condolences to everyone touched by this crash..

Got in with high 60's and low 70's a few years ago. You'll be ok.

I think you mean step one FO pay, because the SO pay starts at 31383, or $64359 CAD annually; if you're paying $20000/month for rent, that doesn't leave much else. The new FO rate is actually a little higher at $48125, which works out to a good salary, but again almost half of that will go to rent....

Here's the new contract. It's not as good as it used to be, but it's still miles better than anything on offer here, especially if you're sitting at 1000-1500 hours with your ATPL and are single (you only need 750 with the SAMRA/SARON written to apply). I can see myself applying. There are some sket...

First one's all painted up!

Well that hurt my head to read.. How is this going to affect the airlines with those highly productive turns to the Caribbean/Central America with early morning report times (swg, tsc, rou, etc)? Will they just depart later in the day to take advantage of the extra duty, or will they have to hire mo...

Thank you!

I think I answered my own question when I typed that out. So basically the MRA will be depicted on the chart if it's below the MOCA because otherwise it'll be included in the MEA, right?

On the LO chart legend, the part about the MRA states: "MRA omitted when the same as MEA." But when would the MEA be different than the MRA on an airway? The MEA is defined as "the published altitude ASL between specified fixes on airways or air routes, which assures acceptable navigational signal c...

There's got to be a decent amount of demand for YYZ-LON. AC alone has 4 wide-body flights from YYZ-LHR + competing service from the likes of BA, WS, TS, etc. I think re-configuring the Cseries to all business is a little out there, but I could see YYZ-LCY with a tech stop in YUL with the standard se...

Out of curiosity, does Transat send their pilots to Germany with that Condor aircraft exchange deal? That would be pretty neat.

Air Transat
http://negotech.labour.gc.ca/cgi-bin/re ... &p25=&p34=

Sunwing
http://negotech.labour.gc.ca/eng/agreem ... 32402a.pdf

Longest flight without shutting down was CYBW-CYXH (touch and go)-YEA-CYBW at 4.4 in a 172. If fuel stops count, I did CYBW-KSQL (San Francisco) in one day at 12.0, again in a 172. I would not recommend it!
As a passenger my longest is around 7 hours CYYC-MDPC in an AC 767.