I’m a volunteer EMR on our fire department. The paramedics all seem to be young. There seems to be a lot of turnover despite the good pay. I also know quite a few people who “used to be” paramedics. More than any other profession.

Think about why so many people leave that field.

Don’t think the company isn’t ecstatic this way this played out. Zero retraining and they get to keep Swoop flying because probably 99% of their pilots would have been laid off..... and what did this cost the company.... nothing.... What did it cost us, 41% pay cuts. 1. I don't think that the compa...

management certainly could break the contract and lay off whoever they want If they did that every pilot in the company would walk. Let's not get out of hand with these theories. It's easy to let fear get out of hand. Curiousflyer is correct. AC could breach the contract and either settle with ACPA...

I’m more worried about the economic damage rather than the virus. It will pass but people are going to take a massive financial hit in the pocket book and not going to take leisure vacations when they’re more worried about keeping food on the table and a roof over their head. Interest rates are dro...

If you talk to the powers at be at Onex, they'll tell you they bought WJ at a $4-$7 per share discount to its true value. Onex doesn't over pay for anything. They bought WJ when it was just coming out of a mud puddle and they know it. They'll be furloughs at AC, WJ, AA, Delta, UAL, Alaska, jetBlue,...

Does that policy otherwise include the hull value of the airplane, or is it a liability only policy you are looking at? My home owner insurance has something similar: if I damage the house with a vehicle I own, it doesn't cover the damage. Yes, that policy includes hull insurance. So in the example...

I wouldn't worry about this at all. You made a mistake, you learned from it. You move on. Make sure you get your PTR. I think you misunderstand the point of insurance. The insurance is there to protect the school from claims against them and their instructors and employees, not to protect the studen...

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Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:12 am

Okay, but like what if I charge a couple hundred bucks for a sweet coffee mug or something and as thanks I throw in a free flight to wherever you want to go?

Oh in that case it's totally legal. What a creative solution.

The key differences between this outbreak and previous global crises are that 1. people are stupider now (literally: IQ's have been dropping for decades) and 2. modern social media amplifies stupidity and facilitates the spread of disinformation, either unwittingly or deliberately. Lack of critical...

What irritates me is the hypocrisy of a "flight training unit" where the people doing the real learning are not the "students", they are the "instructors". At least when you allow a student hairdresser or student dentist to learn their trade on your hair or your teeth, you know in advance they don'...

Well. What's your qualification for making that statement of fact? A PEng. And 20 years dealing with airplanes. I also never said it wasn't a big deal. No one said the student shouldn't learn from the mistake. No one said the plane shouldn't be inspected. What I said was that the failure was not ju...

Were you the candidate, I would suggest that if your take-away from the experience was all about how the opportunity for a partial re-test was stolen from you, instead of how you flew so badly you risked serious damage to a sixty year old aircraft with no less than a person delegated by the ministe...

It’s completely dumb that time spent instructing counts towards airline and licence flight time requirements. It shouldn’t. I have line flying experience in Flight Training, Corporate, Aerial Work, Air Taxi, and 705 freight. My own personal experience has been the exact opposite of the opinion expr...

Photo fly, BPF,
So you'd classify it under "unsafe or dangerous flying?"

BTW the flaps will be inspected.

A friend of mine (not my recommend, although I did a couple training flights with him) just failed his PPL flight test. On his power-on stall, he raised the flaps (10 degrees) too late and exceed the flap speed. Not only did he fail the item, the examiner ended the flight test and ordered a complete...

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Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:54 am

Availability of instructors and planes was never a concern like other schools.

These days that should be your #1 factor in your decision.

Lots of schools taking students and scheduling the to fly 1x per week.

And, just 'cause I'm unsure after reading the interpretation in CAR 101.01, does anyone know: Is a pilot who rents a plane the "operator" for the purpose of CAR 410.28(2)(a)? I'm thinking not, as I expect the entity renting the plane out would be the operator, whether they actually own it, or lease...

This guy got a $1000 fine for doing exactly what you're proposing.

https://decisions.tatc.gc.ca/tatc/tatc/ ... 3/index.do

These days, Con College, hands down.

You're done and working in the industry getting hours/seniority 2 years before the guys from UW, UWO, Seneca etc even have a CPL. If you want a full degree do it on the side as you're building experience.

Best. Headline. Ever.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mike ... -1.5473529

Not to make light of someone dying, but...

If you have been following my post you would have seen my logic. I said I don't really like bailing out companies as the tax payer. But my logic says that sometimes bailouts cost the taxpayers much less than the economic impact of thousands of people without work and being on EI. So would you rathe...

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/a-story-of-corporate-arrogance-money-managers-weigh-in-on-bombardier-s-plight-1.1386713#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=kOSzORm “ It's a story of corporate arrogance, greed and mismanagement by a family company that has multiple voting shares and doesn’t have to answer to...

Not a fan of bail outs. But the cost to the taxpayers if bombardier goes down the drain won’t be cheap. Let’s say you give a billion dollars to a company with 40k employees, that’s 25k per employee. Now if these are good paying jobs, you will basically get all your money back in a year of income ta...

Not a fan of bail outs. But the cost to the taxpayers if bombardier goes down the drain won’t be cheap. Let’s say you give a billion dollars to a company with 40k employees, that’s 25k per employee. Now if these are good paying jobs, you will basically get all your money back in a year of income ta...

I run a small company and know other who do too. THE worst issue is employees, bar none. But it was you that did hire them, no? A friend of mine has a 702/703 outfit with only pistons. For some reason, he has very low turnover. Rumour has it that he's very good to work for. That's true, Bede. A goo...