Tell us how this sounds. You are not in the 10% of pilots you described as selfish. You want the other 90% to come together as a unit and take away from the ten percenters because you damn well just want your fair share...and they are selfish. That sound about right? Maybe you don’t see the irony in...

shortcutting the usual ordeal of going somewhere generally unpleasant (no disrespect to the northern communities,

A great example of the entitlement ayseven?
Looking down your nose at northern 703 operators.
Until you need a temporary job, right?

I think a better question to ask first would be how many jobs are we talking about? A few thousand laid off pilots...how many jobs! A few dozen maybe. The second thing is that we are really not talking about a lot of 10000 hour captains being laid off. Some will have taken early retirement or volunt...

Just an aside. If everyone really wants this to end as quickly as possible, go home and stay there. It seems some people dont think it will hurt them, and don’t seem to give a rat’s p’tootie if they catch it and pass it onto others who it will hurt. The danger of this virus is that it is very infect...

I can’t believe there is still 1000 people illegally crossing the border every month...and thats ok.

North Shore Interesting question as we had a very similar conversation this afternoon. Two issues that happened in similar circumstances... 1. Pilots would literally walk out the door when the recall notice arrived., and 2. Training was a nightmare. Somehow a furloughed FO from a heavy had the attit...

Two words to riches ...Toilet Paper!

I wouldn't worry, DerateNO said no one has gotten a lay off notice.

It is going to get ugly. First rodeo for more than a few.
Hopefully everyone is prepared for it.

One of the big issues is that those that bought on margin are getting margin calls and have no choice but to sell causing a quick drop and emotional panic. When it all shakes out stocks will come back again. Some stocks up 10% today. Folks that bought this morning and sold this afternoon would have ...

I understand WestJet just announced a hiring freeze today. And layoffs across the board. Maybe the music has not stopped yet, but there is an intermission coming. AirCanada, I expect, will soon be doing the same. Its going to delay the aspirations of a few. The best bet is to work towards your goal....

It is fun to bash the oil companies isn’t it? But if you think that it is oil companies keeping the price up in Vancouver, it is not. How about all the taxes, fees surcharges, and taxes on all that. They are not being reduced at all. Why aren’t any of you mentioning this? If oil was free , you would...

I think that soon we will almost seethe end of unstructured, part time flight training. It simply is not efficient. Some US schools have excellent programs for retaining quality flight instruction. Perhaps some of the larger Canadian schools will eventually follow suit, although our variable weather...

Honestly, I dont think pay and schedule are going to make any difference when it comes to retention. There are just to many instructors who are there to get the hours for the resume. Now, as far as the students go, an instructor that has been properly mentored and supervised as a class 4, is paid de...

To clarify...It is not illegal in the 705 world. The CARs which the OP looked up refer only to take off, landing, and the balance of the flight at the Captain’s discretion. The airlines make a lot of things appear to be what they are not, though this policy, I understand did not originate in their D...

Per year or per month? The math only makes sense if it's $500 per month assuming the company spends in excess of $10k or more to get you those ratings.

I think what the poster was referring to is the number of hours flying a year!

Having afew friends who renewed instructors ratings, they found it difficult to find a class 1 that did not want them to essentially redo the whole course dual part before they would recommend them. Fair enough to apoint. And in two out of three of them, that stipulation was made before they were as...

I hope someone makes a video of his face when he gets sentenced to five years in prison, and another one when he is ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the people on the flight who had their vacations ruined. No lawsuits. A court order so he cant declare bankruptcy and escape it. There ne...

Does TC really have a limit on alcohol? I did always wonder about the “ units” question on medicals. At first blush you sound way to honest to be a pilot. And I think it may have been the first time your medical examiner had ever seen a pilot declare he drank and smoked so much. Seriously, if your b...

I don’t see any connection at all between gender and competence. There are good and poor pilots of both genders. The thing that caught my attention was the comments regarding float training for a pilot with a lot of time on type. That is not a gender issue. But it certainly could well be a managemen...

Well, I asked before, but apparently my post disappeared because one is not suppose to even consider pilot incompetence as a possible factor in an accident sequence. It is not always about inexperience, and many inexperienced pilots fly floats very well. But the other question I asked was did TC not...

Its the cold,right? Nobody has anything better to do. How many angels can dance on the end of a pin? As I read this, the problem is we have an incredibly stupid pilot who allowed themselves to get on top of an undercast with virtually no instruments.. not even a ball and needle apparently, as someon...

Pm. Sent

I would not have thought that you would have had to pay $500 to ferry their plane back for them. :smt040 I wonder if the “cookie cutters” were actually something else entirely that looked like cookie cutters in their memory. Anybody remember the little stoves and tablets that used to come with every...

There was another gentleman in Saskatoon who worked as a design engineer on the Arrow. I believe his name was Paul,Mellin. He designed either the left or the right landing gear. He had about a four foot blueprint of it framed and on his wall. The pesky Official Secrets Act does not have an expiry da...

I do. And I do not recall anything like toothpaste. It was a long long time ago.
I also dont recall the Jacuzzi.. Again...a long time ago.

My attempt at humour might have been a bit to subtle