Anyone sign up for the mailing list to get job fair info? I'm not optimistic that WAWCON will be more than anticipated but hopeful that someone somewhere figures out they can't keep screwing the workforce...

Terrible news, condolences to all family and friends

I'm really not sure who to believe - I personally don't think a labour/trade union is inevitable given the size of any company (btw I've worked for an ALPA carrier, seen the good/bad/ugly). Respect, understanding, trust etc. need to be maintained obviously. It's all an indication of divided interest...

For some people, taking a job offer from Encore will mean a 'better today' - believe it or not - and for others it's for a better tomorrow when they flow through to mainline. I've been knocking around the industry for fifteen years now, had some decent luck maintaining employment continuity, but the...

Thanks!

I think that would depend on how strength of the spam filter, but it's an internal AC email address from Georgina Michanos. Pilot Career Centre has the AC information up to date.

Good luck.

It seems like it's through email, at least in my case...

Got the email nod today...

IL-62 looks like a copy of the VC-10; traditional cold-war fare IMO...there was a B727 look-a-like built as well...TU-154...

From what I can gather from the Redbird website, they might actually be running X-Plane. In the promo video, the touch-tablet the instructor is using, the interface looks to me like the X-Plane instructor console interface... If that's the case, then the instrument refresh rate should be very smooth...

A professional association can't fix this busted-a** industry.

Pilots would have to act professionally in the first place...looks like lots are posting here...

Whoa, seeing that many F-4s in once spot, very cool...

Yeah, it USED TO BE the third largest...thanks, Osama...

I went in 1989, 1990, and 1999.

It was mighty impressive...

Check out Selkirk College.

Professionalism is an attitude, not a title.

You can pay a village idiot $250K a year and it still won't change the fact that he's the village idiot.

There seems to be an ingrained sense of entitlement in many areas of aviation, and beyond.

I can only guess answers to your questions because all we're doing here is armchairing, but I wouldn't be surprised if...

The Old Fogducker wrote:I expect he was not sufficiently familiar with the aircraft before being sent out alone into the big wide world.

OFD

I've learned something new today already and I haven't even had my second cup of coffee yet!

Thank-you, DD

Love your signature quote, by the way...

Great stuff - thanks for sharing...will tune it if possible while I'm at work on a night shift...

...oooooh, the irony.....

Yep, Pretend-A-Jet sums it up nicely.

The time requirement stipulated by many employers, AFAIK, relates mostly to their insurance policy.

Haha; the idiot insurance companies will drop their rates lower for a 5000hr idiot versus a 250hr idiot.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Shocking news. :cry: :shock: I feel very fortunate to have had the chance to get to know Peter a little bit through the West coast aviation community, attending his course and working with Steve. He had a tremendous presence and a warmth that enveloped anyone he engaged in conversation. Thank-you, P...

Regardless of a/c type, always sad to see this situation. I too have spent some time in the MU2, but not long enough to have it bite back at me; I fondly remember by time at the controls. I remember feeling my eyebrows rise up at the reading of the demonstrated dive speed; 330KTS IIRC. It's one hot ...

I thought the 40/40/40 thing meant they won't fly if the temperature on the ground at departure, in the air, or on the ground at destination is below minus 40. What I didn't really get is whether they won't fly if it's below minus 40 at any one or more of these three things, or whether it has to be...

RG3 wrote:Wow- sounds really tough to get that first pilot job. Just out of curiosity; how much does it cost a pilot to go up per hour when he/she is trying to get their hours?

Um, don't get confused here bud. This thread has absolutely nothing to do with getting 'that first pilot job.

I hope (& I'm really don't think) that the pilot group simply organizing at H.A. doesn't bring about the end of the company. If they become militant then perhaps, but if not then why should H.A. close up shop? It wouldn't be because the pilots organized themselves no sir. IMO if a labour group organ...

If you can afford it, I'd say go for it - wealth of industry experience in the instructional staff, good geographic area to gain flying experience.

It's typical that people get hired on to the 727 S/O position, but if no one bids for an open CV slot then - so long as you meet the time/experience reqs. - there's no reason not to have a crack at the CV position.