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by clearmyside
Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:29 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Porter vs Transat
Replies: 9
Views: 4021

Re: Porter vs Transat

I'd choose Air Transat. Five (fairly) good of reasons: - there's no getting in on the ground floor at Porter. All 400 dash pilots are more senior to you and will eclipse your seniority number for a few years to come. Translation: your schedule will suck for a long time. - Business travel isn't neces...
by clearmyside
Fri Dec 24, 2021 3:58 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Oh westjet
Replies: 64
Views: 11264

Re: Oh westjet

@piperdriver

what does it have to do with Swoop? Seems you're blaming the child for the parent's failures?
by clearmyside
Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:56 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Fuel density effect on range/fuel capacity US West coast against south east Asia
Replies: 13
Views: 1521

Re: Fuel density effect on range/fuel capacity US West coast against south east Asia

That has been my experience. Routinely planned a max uplift of 400lbs less than book leaving out of a popular SE destination, whereas in Europe for example you could "overfill" the aircraft on occasion, getting 80-100 lbs more than book.
by clearmyside
Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:21 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Canada or International
Replies: 3
Views: 1901

Re: Canada or International

I've been overseas for twelve years now, got married and have two kids. So far an amazing experience and pay that will never be matched in Canada. You can make more money in an airline overseas as a DEC on a 737/A320 than a very senior wide body Air Canada guy. I've worked in corporate aviation for ...
by clearmyside
Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:04 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Air Taxi Franchise idea?
Replies: 42
Views: 16312

Re: Air Taxi Franchise idea?

Waldo, i love this idea and have been thinking about a similar set-up for some time. one of my biggest concerns is on how to manage sop's and a safety minded way of operating each and every flight. some individual operators may be more risk averse than others, but it would only take one incident/acc...
by clearmyside
Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:35 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Air Taxi Franchise idea?
Replies: 42
Views: 16312

Re: Air Taxi Franchise idea?

I love this idea. Been thinking about something similar for some years now. I think there would be no shortage of interested pilot owners/operators accross the whole spectrum from piston to jets. One thing that provides an area for concern would be operating standards and safety. A way to monitor th...
by clearmyside
Wed Nov 30, 2016 6:53 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Im so broke from being a pilot
Replies: 22
Views: 4972

Re: Im so broke from being a pilot

ok, lets see: Started flying in 1997: Started working in 1998: years 1-3: 14000-20000; dispatch, washing planes, very little flying year 4: 24000; did 1000 hours of flying in that year year 5: 36000, plus a bit of mileage year 6-8: medivac on king air 38000-55000 including mileage year 8-9: first je...
by clearmyside
Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:09 am
Forum: Corporate
Topic: C-GNDN 1st Gulfstream G650 added to Canadian Register
Replies: 8
Views: 13310

Re: C-GNDN 1st Gulfstream G650 added to Canadian Register

The G650 is easy to spot. When looking at it, one can notice that the cabin windows are about 30% larger than on the G450/550. Also, it's a much fatter aircraft, finally matching cabin volume of the Global Express. The easiest thing to spot though is the cockpit wrap-around windscreen, which has a m...
by clearmyside
Sun Oct 26, 2014 5:00 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Your first T4 over $100k was when you had....
Replies: 53
Views: 8495

Re: Your first T4 over $100k was when you had....

Flight training took a long time 97-2000: dispatch, washing planes, occasional vfr charter: 14-20K -2001: full time Navajo in northern Ontario: 24K -2002-2005: Caravan and King Air Cpt: 36 beginning - 65K end -2005-6: small jet: 36K -2006-8: F/O 737NG: First year 95K (with all extras), second year a...
by clearmyside
Wed Apr 30, 2014 11:13 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Over seas gig
Replies: 8
Views: 2191

Re: Over seas gig

It depends what you fly and in what capacity. Nowadays you can get a left seat position in the Middle East, Africa or Asia if you currently fly a Challenger or bigger. Even Airlines offer rotation jobs now, i.e. A320/737 in China 6 weeks on 2 weeks off type of deal. imho, I would not stick with Cana...
by clearmyside
Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:38 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Pilot charged for bond he never signed
Replies: 10
Views: 3037

Re: Pilot charged for bond he never signed

We went to a remote airport in northern China a few weeks ago and had to take a navigator, because the aerodrome wasn't in our database, nor did the controllers there speak english. Turns out the navigator is a pilot for Air China. The company trained him ab initio and since he got several type rati...
by clearmyside
Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:50 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Air Transat Layoffs
Replies: 10
Views: 3986

Air Transat Layoffs

I heard a few days ago from a buddy of mine, who works at Air Transat, that he just received a layoff notice. He's been with them for over three years and didn't get layed off last time, meaning this time the cuts are deeper. Unless I missed it: Why is no one talking about this. Especially when Sunw...
by clearmyside
Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:00 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Peter Shewring, Canadian aviation icon, passes on
Replies: 64
Views: 13414

Re: Peter Shewring, Canadian aviation icon, passes on

I had the pleasure of meeting Peter about 10 years ago, taking the Aerocourse and sometimes giving him a ride from YVR to YYJ. I remember standing in front of the huge map in the Juan Air office with him and discussing the various regions of the beautiful province of BC. Peter lived aviation. There ...
by clearmyside
Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:56 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Sunwing?
Replies: 8
Views: 2584

Sunwing is a rapidly expanding company. They started over two years ago and are now the largest in Ontario for vacation sales. Yes sunwing and sunwing/red seal vacations are associated. sunwing airlines does not have any associations with other airlines (with one exception). while the airline hasn't...
by clearmyside
Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:10 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Loss of License insurance
Replies: 2
Views: 706

Loss of License insurance

Hey there,

I'd like to find out about Loss of License insurance. Does your company provide ie it or do you purchase it yourself? and also who will provide it?

I only got one quote so far and it is hugely expensive ($2500 p.a for $300000 coverage)

Thanks,

cms
by clearmyside
Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:00 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: SUNWING
Replies: 14
Views: 5321

SUNWING never had a starting wage of 65K for F/O. It's 48K first year, 60K 2nd year and goes up from there. it is 20% below par with skyservice and even more with air transat. however, there's a lot of overtime and if you have enough seniority you can go for uk deployment, which enables you to save ...
by clearmyside
Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:15 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: easyairshare
Replies: 1
Views: 462

easyairshare

someone should tell them that if they are looking for professional pilots they should post a professional job posting. current on what, and how much mullah ??? is it captain or chief piot or both?????? looking at their website they bost an eclipse toyplane. why would i need pond experience, since it...
by clearmyside
Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:30 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: SUNWING
Replies: 14
Views: 5321

chances of expansion out west?????????? am not sure about that. swg is trying this winter season, however all pilots will be toronto based. in fact sunwing vacations already operated out west last season, not the airline. DO NOT EXPECT TO EVER see a permanent base out there. the western market tradi...
by clearmyside
Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:43 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: SUNWING
Replies: 14
Views: 5321

SWG is a pretty good company. money is not the best (if compared to skyservice or transat), but ok. it beats ac for the first two years and then you're behind for the rest of your career moneywise and otherwise i.e. benefits etc.. they do have big plans and will be seeing huge expansion for the upco...
by clearmyside
Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:10 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Question for Piaggio drivers.
Replies: 11
Views: 1694

this is speed

you call a lear fast??????? so you cruise at M.78. big deal over the slowtations M.72.

try falcon 100 cruise at M.82 and an mmo @ M.87. had it at that speed all the time.

shit for range though.
by clearmyside
Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:59 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Vienna - Best time to buy airline tickets
Replies: 11
Views: 1020

my story and i'm sticking to it.

worst airline i have ever flown with. that was a long time ago, but if you follow them in the media they are just as shitty as they were back then. crappy old airplanes, poor service (by that i mean a lot worse than any american or canadian airline)and very dirty aircraft. they are government funded...
by clearmyside
Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:43 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Which headset to buy?
Replies: 3
Views: 673

Which headset to buy?

Hey everyone:

I am looking for some info/opinions on which headset is best for 737NG. There's everything from the regular Telex to other brands and singlt or dual ear cups.
Please help.

Thanks,

CMS
by clearmyside
Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:51 am
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: NovaJet
Replies: 4
Views: 2485

novajet is no mystery

The managment at novajet are people from flight exec. there was a huge shake-up a few month ago and once the partners at flightexec split, novajet was formed. rumour has it that their falcon 10 will be coming from another canadian operator (don't want to say) who doesn't have work (if you can believ...
by clearmyside
Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:41 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Air Canada Abort Video (with commentary by a Seneca Grad)
Replies: 67
Views: 13389

What an idiot.........

unqualified comments and "subtitles" show extreme immaturity. in my books anytime the crew aborts a take off it's a good thing, because it means they use their experience training and judgement. as a pax in the back you have no clue what's going on on th flight deck. so, to "produce" a video with su...

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