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- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: Aerobatics & Airshows
- Topic: List of Aerobatic facility in Canada
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10746
Re: List of Aerobatic facility in Canada
The CAR's can be confusing in regards to aerobatics and teaching. Can a Class 2 Aerobatic instructor teach aerobatics in his/her own aircraft if it's certified and approved for aerobatics? Or would you have to be affiliated with a flight school or under your own FTU?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:30 am
- Forum: Flair Airlines
- Topic: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
- Replies: 206
- Views: 33425
Re: Flair Suspending Growth Plans amid Delivery Delays and Debt
I just can't understand Canadian pilots sometimes. We should be cheering on more companies and competition. Helps improve wages and ticket prices. Not snickering and hoping for their demise. Maybe it's insecurity so you can pat yourself on the back and validate your own career decisions. When I work...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: B747 Rating ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2546
Re: B747 Rating ?
Very cool pal. I'm jealous. Good luck with your training.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:16 am
- Forum: Flair Airlines
- Topic: Flair/Lynx Merger
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7891
Re: Flair/Lynx Merger
I have zero affiliation with Flair but I find it funny. Every time people say Flair is done (are they really Canadian? planes being seized ect) sure enough.......they still keep flying. That’s called survivorship bias. It is always the case for anything… until it isn’t. For the record I’m not hopin...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Flair Airlines
- Topic: Flair/Lynx Merger
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7891
Re: Flair/Lynx Merger
I have zero affiliation with Flair but I find it funny. Every time people say Flair is done (are they really Canadian? planes being seized ect) sure enough.......they still keep flying.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:49 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Emirates or Air Canada
- Replies: 68
- Views: 12329
Re: Emirates or Air Canada
Definitely less working at AC. All hours at EK are hard hours. No credit hour system. So 85-90 hours a month and 10 days off certainly more flying than AC. That's not quite true. Junior WB at AC has no cap, unlike the NB's. There's junior guys flying 18,19,20 days a month. Even a junior RP can work...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Emirates or Air Canada
- Replies: 68
- Views: 12329
Re: Emirates or Air Canada
On average, you fly more at EK or AC? Anything above 15 days per month is too much. Definitely less working at AC. All hours at EK are hard hours. No credit hour system. So 85-90 hours a month and 10 days off certainly more flying than AC. That's not quite true. Junior WB at AC has no cap, unlike t...
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 3:27 pm
- Forum: Jazz Aviation LP - Air Canada Express
- Topic: Negotiations
- Replies: 1659
- Views: 304222
Re: Negotiations
On a side note. The golden age of being a pilot has long since past. Regardless of the path taken to the top of ones flying career the net outcome all things considered puts a Canadian pilot (and most others in the world) no further ahead than a truck driver, bus driver, train driver, ferry driver ...
- Thu May 04, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Delta now hiring Air Canada pilots
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6661
Re: Delta now hiring Air Canada pilots
This is 100% false. This rumour has been going on at Air Canada for a couple years now. Probably started by the former delusional old dino MEC. What makes Air Canada pilots so special compared to Westjet or Transat? If anything you would find more experience pilots at these other carriers. 3/4 of Ai...
- Tue May 02, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Are AC pilots known as 'Frost Backs' now?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3819
Re: Are AC pilots known as 'Frost Backs' now?
Northern Mexican’s is the funniest one I’ve heard, and that was from an Atlas crew. And in regards to experience and training. We like to think we’re some of the best pilots in the world because we have winter. Lol. Go do a sim eval in another part of the world. Tech exams, psych tests and sim evals...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:01 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Flair Airlines - Planes seized
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32029
Re: Chickens come home to roost for Flair Airlines
Doesn't matter. Being "Boeing qualified" doesn't mean you'll be flying a Boeing at AC. Boeing, RJ, Embraer, it's all the same. An ex Flair guy may end up right seat on an A220 and a Porter guy from the Q400 on the 777. Yes it does matter. I worked at AC and subsequently resigned during COVID. In PI...
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Flair Airlines - Planes seized
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32029
Re: Chickens come home to roost for Flair Airlines
If anything happens to Flair this will not be good for wage and working conditions in this country. I bet AC management is salivating over all these Boeing qualified guys being available soon. Doesn't matter. Being "Boeing qualified" doesn't mean you'll be flying a Boeing at AC. Boeing, RJ, Embraer...
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:40 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Flair Airlines - Planes seized
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32029
Re: Chickens come home to roost for Flair Airlines
If anything happens to Flair this will not be good for wage and working conditions in this country. I bet AC management is salivating over all these Boeing qualified guys being available soon.
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Airline pilots: How much do you use your "travel benefits"?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5346
Re: Airline pilots: How much do you use your "travel benefits"?
This is a good thread. We’re a family of 5. Whenever we’re going on “vacation” I always book confirmed. I don’t want my little ones separated from me sitting beside some weirdo. I always say passes are good for fringe trips if you have a family. Stuff you wouldn’t normally book but can. Like going o...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:11 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Convert Canadian CPL to EASA
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6830
Re: Convert Canadian CPL to EASA
I was just looking into converting to a UK CAA PPL (so I could fly private GA, G reg) a few months back. I remember reading about the ATPL that you need to go through a “provider” but there’s no requirement to do the six hundred or so hours of ground school if you hold a foreign ATPL.
- Tue Dec 13, 2022 12:39 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: The Air Canada OTS thread
- Replies: 2326
- Views: 815256
Re: The Air Canada OTS thread
I was 3 months from updating my resume and references doing their thing. They hire in waves from different companies and regimes however, I was told I was in the "to call" pile about 2 months prior to getting the email. Have you heard back? I actually declined. After weighing all the pros and cons,...
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 2:12 pm
- Forum: Marketplace
- Topic: Wanted: Aircraft Tools
- Replies: 0
- Views: 730
Wanted: Aircraft Tools
Hello. I’ll be starting the sheet metal work on my project airplane soon. Looking for aircraft tools such as a rivet gun, squeezer, cleco’s ect. that anyone is willing to sell. Thought I’d try local first before buying new in the US or on the vans forum.
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:18 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: ATPL University transfer credit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 779
ATPL University transfer credit
Hi. I’ve been debating picking up my university studies again. Lots of time off on the road. This is not for aviation job purposes. Strictly personal. Does anyone know of a University in Canada that gives credit for ATPL’s like ERAU does in the US? So far the only one I’ve found is the University of...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:10 am
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: CARGOJET INTERVIEW
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2361
Re: CARGOJET INTERVIEW
PM sent
- Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:07 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Avada Kadabra
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10182
Re: Avada Kadabra
I think we all know the real reason these posts happen. It's part of our "Canadian culture" which is so afraid of confrontation, especially at one's workplace that people will do anything to avoid it, regardless of how insignificant it is. In most cases, this mentality has reached a point, (for exa...