British Airways Captain - long haul - 16 years service ~ £115,000 basic. (So about $225-230K) Taken from a UK website that details their paypoints. Cat Driver - re: the comment about paying cash to work in aviation. Sorry but its a wide spread occurence here too - Ryan Air want 27,000 Euros for thei...

At the risk of getting flamed, can somebody in the know please clarify the current deal at VAL? (I have searched through other threads before you ask) This "cash up front" gig - I am told its $15K, NON pro-rated over 12 months (so you get nothing back until month 12) Its taken out in your name by yo...

Interesting to read the state of affairs with you guys. Having left Canada a few years back and now being in the UK, let me tell you that things are well and truly in the shitter here. We've seen many a charter company (Excel, Silverjet for example - both Longhaul carriers) go under, and there are g...

We still haven't caught up with prices in Europe where gasoline have been hovering around the $2.00 mark in many countries for about 15 years. Current UK prices - Regular Unleaded - £1.01 / litre = $1.92 Diesel per - £1.07 / litre = $2.03 Tax makes up for about 80% of the cost. Public transit in th...

JAR Ops mandates: Block fuel = taxy & trip Diversion fuel to alternate Contingency fuel = 5% trip fuel Final reserve fuel = 30 mins holding at 1500' aal (for Jet a/c) For remote operations, JAR refers to something called "Island reserve" whereby they assume your destination is so remote there is no ...

First of all, lets all put our wieners away and stop arguing the technicalities of flying an aircraft, disengaging the A/P at mins etc etc. Its not relevant to the original question, and really, who cares!? 60N30W - you asked a question. Unfortunately it opened you up to accustations of ignorance an...

Bouchard said Bell cannot monitor the activities of every one of its customers. Hmmm..yeah..right... You would think that a multi million dollar company would be able to implement a flag-up system for a user who runs over say $10K in a month!? I used to have Rogers in Vancouver. Two issues with the...

For a given indicated airspeed the TAS will increase with altitude so the turn will eat up a lot more prairie than the turn at lower altitudes. For a jet aircraft flying close up to its critical Mach number a steep turn could cause stability problems-try that in the sim-it can be very educational. ...

First -- the media already knows about it as soon as you transmitted the problem to ATC -- and as stated and what I implied it's "cover your ass" -- and depending on aircraft type and wx conditions flapless can go from from abnormal to emergency in short order -- I can't agree with the above -- we ...

Happened to me when I was an FA more than once. No emergency or passenger briefing necessary! Relates of course to operational status of other systems and runway LDA, landing weight, etc etc. One flapless landing was due to loss of no 1 hydraulics system on a 757 and still no need to brief pax. As t...

From another forum (prune) here's some pertinent info: Accident happened 22.06z. METAR: SEQU 092209Z 17004KT 3000S 4000N RA VCFG FEW005 BKN023 OVC100 12/11 Q1024 BECMG AT2230 4000 Landed runway 35. So small tailwind component. Quito field elevation is just over 9000' @ 12 deg = DA 10,700' approx. IA...

This happened at over London on Thursday morning. Aircraft was a B744, Speedbird 088 from Nairobi...transcript from pprune forum.. (For those not familiar - Biggin = VOR south east of London, LTN = London Luton Airport and LAM = VOR NW of London, both VOR's are holding points for EGLL Heathrow)) It ...

Of course the easy solution here is (on a fairly regular run) to work out total burn upon refuel and draw up an average over a few trips - for each a/c that you use. The PA31 fuel burns can vary wildly between a/c - seeing as they are old and quite often worn. We use to do this on a fleet of them on...

Auto gasoline (also known as Mogas) has a higher volatility and water content than avgas, so it increases the chances substantially of vapour locking and carb icing. There are normally some restrictions on what altitude you can operate up to (at least in Europe there is) and above what ambient air t...

From JAA ATPL notes: Convergence, i.e. constant change of track is zero at the Equator (where all meridians are parallel) and maximum at the poles. Mathematically: convergence = change of longitude x sine mean latitude E.g. Find convergence in track between 40N 25W and 60N 060E a) change longitude i...

Head of Lithuanian CAA reporting aircraft diverted to Vilnius and right gear collapse on touch down...couple of pictures on the link below...

http://www.alfa.lt/pictureGallery.do?articleId=150004

Here's what the boys at Bristol say: If you have... - more than 1500 hours on two-pilot aircraft, - are type rated already and - have more than 500 hours on type you need to pass all 14 ground exams but don't need to attend a formal groundschool course. You will need to pass a skills test on the air...

From Bristol Ground School (one of the UK's leading distance learning JAA ATPL theory training providers) http://www.bristol.gs High Time Pilots If you are very experienced you should you should apply to the CAA for a formal assessment using Form SRG 1103. The qualifying criteria are - more than 300...

30,000kg AUW

Apparently the golden figure (with PIC hours requirement too) for exemption from most of the JAA exams. Flight test still required though.

30,000Kg = 66,000 Ibs!

If you choose the Airline route, you're going straight into a JAA type program.

And honestly, to have a low experienced pilot flying in an airline environment in high density airspace, you probably want to compensate for lack of experience with over education

Good post. And 100% agree.

Stupid bureaucratic crap Yes and no. No doubt there is a lot of stuff in the JAA syllabus that you will never use. You go into great detail on things like met, instruments, gyros, electrics, radio theory, human factors, worldwide global nav, etc etc. Its aimed completely at airline level from the g...

Really? I would like to see the info relating to that too. I am currently deep in JAA ATPL study and the amount of study, detail in subject matter and complexity is pretty brutal - expect a minimum of 6 months full time study at the moment just to write the 14 JAA exams, and that's before the flight...

must be summer holidays...

Time for a little bit of "Daddy Day Care" for you R.........

Is R.V. really back up and running? What is the company name and where are they operating from? Leopards don't change their spots, and this guy is aviation's worst liability when it comes to safety. If you even get a sniff of this guy's name linked to any operation..RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.......!!!!!!!!!...

Pointyertoes........ ...only somebody who's never flown a visual approach in steep terrain in a transport category a/c could post a comment so inane... Well there Einstein, you would be right about me never having flown a viz approach in a transport category a/c. Rather inane of you to not notice th...