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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: How will Immediate roadside prohibition affect career as an airline pilot ?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2266
Re: How will Immediate roadside prohibition affect career as an airline pilot ?
It's probably a great highlight that you have terrible decision making skills and one of the many other applicants in the pool should be chosen over you. Too bad you weren't in Alberta....I'd be wondering if it was me who shredded your license. I love catching impaired drivers. I still haven't found...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How long til $100k?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 67614
Re: How long til $100k?
This is depressing to read. I'm looking at timelines and responsibilities you guys had. I made more than many of you driving a truck, and then working through my apprenticeship as an auto tech. Now in law enforcement at 130K for 2023 and I'm thinking it would be too tough of a pill to swallow to swi...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Has anyone bought an aircraft recently?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4391
Re: Has anyone bought an aircraft recently?
I saved until I could make outright purchases of a plane and hangar. I bought the nicest plane I could purchase while keeping 10K cash in a rainy day fund and bought a wonderful 2 seater. I couldn't imagine the "behind the ball" feeling of financing a plane. I bought the hangar in 2020 and aircraft ...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Hand flying Cirrus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3954
Re: Hand flying Cirrus
Are you waiting for prices to come down on things? I'm curious on your buying timeline. I haven't been looking at cirrus price levels but I'm leaning towards waiting longer for my 2 seater upgrade to a family hauler. Lots of pretty ads out there for planes that have been sitting for a few months now...
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:01 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Calgary flying club , sky wing aviation, absolute aviation or centennial aviation?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1817
Re: Calgary flying club , sky wing aviation, absolute aviation or centennial aviation?
Super T Aviation in Medicine Hat accepts international students....they own several 172s so booking is rarely an issue. They also have on-airport accommodations that you can get a good price on so you don't need to worry about hotel costs. I fly out of Medicine Hat and nearby Bow Island and you rare...
- Wed May 25, 2022 8:10 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: United picked on the wrong guy, this time.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3633
Re: United picked on the wrong guy, this time.
There's a longer video available online where the football player slaps the employee before the employee slaps back. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/viral-video-shows-fight-between-calgary-stampeders-player-united-airlines-worker Loser football player so innocent now? The employee takes se...
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:10 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Did I waste Time And Money?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5649
Re: Did I waste Time And Money?
I got into flight sims at around 9-10 years old. I was HEAVY into any and every flight sim I could get my hands on through my teenage years. I had joined a virtual airline at the time as the internet was developing and I was doing various assigned routes and figured out VOR tracking etc on the early...
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 7:00 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: A Career in Aviation or Law Enforcement?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5594
Re: A Career in Aviation or Law Enforcement?
Avoid law enforcement. I'm a cop and all my senior friends agree the job turned to garbage starting in 2015 with the meth and fentanyl scourge turning people into zombies. I have been in patrols, traffic, and I'm also a bomb tech. Policing is glorified babysitting now. Majority of calls are domestic...
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Orillia Aviation $26/hr?!?!?!?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1556
Re: Orillia Aviation $26/hr?!?!?!?
When I left being a Ford technician in 2015 I was paid a guaranteed minimum that worked out to 44/hr.
26/hr for an AME is downright brutal
26/hr for an AME is downright brutal
- Wed May 19, 2021 5:41 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Getting into Flying Insurance Premiums
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1734
Re: Getting into Flying Insurance Premiums
I'm in the boat of the PPL that is tired of renting. My rental flights are short hops and the aircraft has to be back. I spends hundreds of dollars to spend 30 minutes looking at the runway at some other bodunk city before turning back. IT HAS GOTTEN VERY OLD I have around 130 hrs TT, and I called a...
- Sun May 09, 2021 1:09 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Help with buying a used plane
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5116
Re: Help with buying a used plane
At the moment there are very few small piston singles available on the market at a sensible price. Were I selling right now, I'd decline to allow an invasive inspection of my airframe. As far as I know, there are no defects with the airframe. If that's not good enough, there will be another buyer a...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Get a Trade discussion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1215
Re: Get a Trade discussion
If you are going to plug away at a trade for something in a 4-5 year commitment do something in the construction trades. It's easier to become self employed after if you stay in the industry longer than expected and with minimal investment in equipment and tools compared to something like automotive...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:25 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Interesting airplane ads
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4664
Re: Interesting airplane ads
The market is so full of perfumed up pigs its crazy. Every time I see a good deal it sells right away and pops back up for sale by the next owner for 10-20k more too. That has been super common during this pandemic too. Lots of sellers who have only owned their aircraft for a few months when you run...
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:47 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: What are the unlucky doing?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7988
Re: What are the unlucky doing?
Trucking is a decent suggestion. There are piles of job ads for trucking positions. I'm not a commercial pilot but I drove long haul after the 2008 recession. Very little education/training considering the decent pay. To get a trade is a minimum 4 year commitment. I'm a journeyman automotive tech to...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:07 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Is being a Commercial Pilot in Canada worth it?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 8323
Re: Is being a Commercial Pilot in Canada worth it?
I went the other route. I have a trade under my belt, another diploma, and currently in a career that makes just over 100k/year. I'm finally at the point where I fly for fun but I'm honestly jealous of my friends who have spent the last decade getting paid to fly while I was stuck on the ground. The...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: "COVID pricing" for aircraft sales?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1591
Re: "COVID pricing" for aircraft sales?
Thanks for the replies. I'm going to wait until spring as there is some work I want to do to the hangar before I put an aircraft in there. At that point I'll see if things have begun to cool off or if I just need to suck it up. I definitely echo the same thoughts as what's mentioned in here about lo...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:50 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: "COVID pricing" for aircraft sales?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1591
"COVID pricing" for aircraft sales?
Is it just me, or does the current market for aircraft seem ridiculously overinflated? Is this an effect of COVID and people wanting to do more socially distanced activities (like flying?) Last spring I was looking as a cash in hand buyer and made the decision to do some home renos instead, and bump...
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:33 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Headset recommendation?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3019
Re: Headset recommendation?
I recently used a David Clark One-X borrowed from a friend and liked it so much that I just ordered one yesterday.
- Fri May 08, 2020 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: School me on hangars
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2464
Re: School me on hangars
The local hangars around me seem to cost 400/mo once the building is paid for (so bank on 1000/mo and higher) to fully finance and pay for if you put nothing down. Guys who rent out half of a 2-plane hangar want 350-400/mo rent. Some hangars are cheaper if you don't mind your aircraft getting shoved...
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:40 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: ****HISTORICAL**** P-38 crash, Prince George BC
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4978
Re: ****HISTORICAL**** P-38 crash, Prince George BC
Thanks for posting that story. Let us know if you find it. This quarantine business has me partly living vicariously through other people's solo missions so I'd genuinely love to hear about it!