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by LifeAt90Kts
Mon Jun 12, 2023 6:35 am
Forum: Wasaya Airways
Topic: Training Bond Length
Replies: 5
Views: 1550

Re: Training Bond Length

12 months 703/704
18 months 705
No cash upfront, prorated.

No bond for FA training.
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:02 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: The Air Canada OTS thread
Replies: 2309
Views: 807459

Re: The Air Canada OTS thread

When I left it was ~$100k base, ~$140k working almost every legal hour.
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:49 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: The Air Canada OTS thread
Replies: 2309
Views: 807459

Re: The Air Canada OTS thread

I am one of those decently paid 705 captains that recently took the leap to AC. It was an incredibly difficult decision for every reason you guys have been discussing above. I will preface all of this by saying that flat pay is an abomination and needs to go, a decade ago. When I did the math though...
by LifeAt90Kts
Wed May 11, 2022 1:03 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: Mainline hiring
Replies: 166
Views: 40277

Re: Mainline hiring

Well, that certainly makes the decision easy, thank you for the info!
by LifeAt90Kts
Tue May 10, 2022 8:18 pm
Forum: WestJet
Topic: Mainline hiring
Replies: 166
Views: 40277

Re: Mainline hiring

$60,375? For an FO starting? What does it look like with per diems and whatever else added on?
by LifeAt90Kts
Tue May 10, 2022 8:08 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Feels like impossible to find an entry level pilot job...
Replies: 34
Views: 5693

Re: Feels like impossible to find an entry level pilot job...

I hire entry level pilots. This advice is purely my opinion and I’m sure others will disagree, but here is what I look for in a newbie: - If your resume is 5 pages long, I’m likely not reading past the first page. Please keep the cover letter to one page, and the resume to one page. - Please lay off...
by LifeAt90Kts
Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:05 pm
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: Captains of the North, what make you stay?
Replies: 35
Views: 7108

Re: Captains of the North, what makes you stay?

You get to a point where you’d have to take a huge pay cut and schedule hit to move to the “majors”. It’s affordable to buy houses and all the snowmobiles and boats and whatever to enjoy the outdoors up here. Makes it harder and harder to leave, so unless you have shiny jet syndrome you just settle ...
by LifeAt90Kts
Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:41 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Trevor Jacob "staged" plane crash
Replies: 76
Views: 16507

Re: Trevor Jacob "staged" plane crash

People go their entire careers doing everything in their power trying *not* to bend an airplane, and this idiot goes out and does it for attention. Disgusting.
by LifeAt90Kts
Fri Dec 10, 2021 4:29 am
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: Wasaya FO Rotational?
Replies: 7
Views: 2258

Re: Wasaya FO Rotational?

If you’re YQT or YXL based you’re expected to get yourself to your base for your shift. You can utilize the Sched or bearskin-perimeter to get there. If you live farther away, there are jumpseat agreements with AC, WJ, Porter, Transat… All pilots have access to these travel benefits, not just those ...
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Dec 09, 2021 12:51 pm
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: Wasaya FO Rotational?
Replies: 7
Views: 2258

Re: Wasaya FO Rotational?

1900 FO’s are non-rotational. 1900 captains are though.
by LifeAt90Kts
Sat Aug 29, 2020 9:46 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Question about Transport Canada recordkeeping
Replies: 20
Views: 3697

Re: Question about Transport Canada recordkeeping

I had heard from an examiner that they track the FTU’s and examiners to make sure the pass / fail ratio is within norms. I don’t know that they can filter pilots who attended a specific FTU who went on to achieve an ATPL. Won’t know till you ask! I don’t know if any one is even in the TC offices rig...
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:12 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Airplane stuck in the states
Replies: 90
Views: 10220

Re: Airplane stuck in the states

Um... I'm pretty sure that the quarantine exemption applies only to crew actually flying for an airline ; [/quote] I wasn’t sure, which is why I called and checked before I completed this exact task for a client. I was providing a service, contracted by the aircraft owner. Therefore flight crew, an...
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:36 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Airplane stuck in the states
Replies: 90
Views: 10220

Re: Airplane stuck in the states

If you don’t want to quarantine for two weeks when you come back find a furloughed commercial pilot you trust, and send them down there to grab it. Commercial pilots, truckers, and marine crew are exempt from the quarantine rules.
by LifeAt90Kts
Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:01 pm
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: How to Become an Air Tanker Pilot?
Replies: 3
Views: 1755

Re: How to Become an Air Tanker Pilot?

Floats! Lots and lots and LOTS of float time.
by LifeAt90Kts
Sun May 24, 2020 9:51 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: The Avcanada COVID Employment Poll
Replies: 21
Views: 4816

Re: The Avcanada COVID Employment Poll

Laid off, found a temp flying contract, fingers crossed for a return to my previous job in the fall!
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Feb 06, 2020 6:18 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: 2 on 2 off with flight deals
Replies: 15
Views: 4398

Re: 2 on 2 off with flight deals

New contract that just got ratified at Wasaya has rotation for all captain positions at all bases except for Dash in YQT. FO’s on the dash and hawker in YPL also have rotation. Free company travel within the Wasaya network. Jump seat agreements with AC, WJ, Porter, Bearskin, Perimeter, and a bunch m...
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:35 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Wasaya airways
Replies: 1
Views: 2178

Re: Wasaya airways

Sent you a pm :)
by LifeAt90Kts
Thu Jul 25, 2019 5:46 am
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Price/demand for free lance instructors.
Replies: 21
Views: 3267

Re: Price/demand for free lance instructors.

I know in some areas where there's a few freelance instructors to choose from, the guys charge $35-50/ hour. I'm the only one within a couple hundred kilometres, so I charge $60, but that's what my free time is worth to me. I charge that rate for everything, but some instructors charge more for adva...
by LifeAt90Kts
Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:20 am
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: Keewatin
Replies: 37
Views: 10982

Re: Keewatin

I’m making the same as their king air captains as a year one Navajo driver in NWO, and I know other companies around here paying more than mine. That’s pretty brutal. :?

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