That's what I have heard.

My guess is management wants to exert some leverage for upcoming negotiations. However, wages and working conditions are supposed to be frozen until the first TA is ratified.. I would argue that moving someone to another base is an unnegotiated change to working conditions.

Nice job.

Nice idea but the reality is homebrew GPS approaches are how flights are operated every day in the North. It's taught to new hire pilots by the management and training pilots of the airlines and then heavily implied that this is how you are to operate your aircraft. There's no way Transport Canada ...

xplane wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 9:02 am We're a large school and unfortunately, the CFI and accountable executive provide very little to no supervision with little guidance.

That's really alarming.

Bede is a tool. They were a disaster during the merger, made arguments nobody could understand, and generally lost. Now they are facing a DFR, along with a ULP for an agreement they signed in secret with Westjet that neither party wants to reveal. Their chair and vice chair resigned shortly after t...

It is already drafted and ready to go. You have zero idea what you are talking about in this case. So why hasn't it been filed? And again, I know how westjet ALPA operated during the merger, and you guys had all the lawyers scratching their heads with the crap you were arguing, including your own. ...

ALPA international has said and done nothing that limits our ability to file a s.35. You still don't get it. It's not your MEC that files it- it's ALPA National. If it was MEC's that files s. 35 applications, the Encore MEC would have filed an application a long time ago. They have a far greater cl...

Your analysis should also be the analysis of any competent and credible legal resource retained to advise on the matter. That legal analysis might not be that there is a ‘zero’ chance of a sustained petition, but it should be the reasonable assessment of the odds of achieving the relief requested. ...

This crash devasted me. I taught the observer to fly as did my wife. He was friends with my kids. He had fantastic hands and feet and a super nice kid. I'd like to think that had he been the pilot flying this never would have happened. He started at the company as a high school student sweeping the ...

Name one thing that anyone here has posted that is even remotely possible if the other party won't engage. You can't negotiate with a company that refuses to want to negotiate. You can't bargain with another pilot group that really has nothing to lose or win by doing anything. The only thing here h...

Just give it a rest already. Don’t waste anymore money on this. People who don't work at Jazz don't get to tell pilots how to proceed. Amd that so many who don't work at Jazz are working so hard to convince us not to do it, tells me we absolutely should! And this is what you don't understand about ...

Why don't the Boeings always takeoff at full rated power, and climb at full rated power? Engine longevity, fuel consumption, etc etc. same same See that's what I always thought too but they make a turbo version of the exact same engine that climbs out at 38" every day, so leaving at full throttle a...

sunk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 7:46 pm so do you leave the MP at full throttle for the trip and just roll back the rpm? Or do you reduce MP in cruise?

I know guys that fly like that, albeit not on an IO-520.

I am really not sure why you care so much what Jazz does... I don't really care but I feel for the guys denied flow who got screwed. Your MEC is trying to leverage their legitimate grievance to try to get something for everyone. It's incredibly risky. The s. 35 won't go anywhere and there's a risk ...

Just to move the conversation along past the “criminal level” bit. If one was predisposed towards fairness, one might consider that a few of these so-called “approaches” were probably for the purpose of locating a touchdown spot amid the drifts on the lake surface. As you will remember from your Ar...

An arbitrator will definitely have no clue how to handle this mess and refer to the board. The pilots mainly effected by section 3-14 are not on property anymore. They won't refer to the Board. It's pretty simple- award some damages based on future career earnings discounted by some percentage. If ...

TSB final report: https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2023/a23w0158/a23w0158.html Thanks for posting. This should be required reading for all pilots (and especially low time pilots working the ramp waiting for a spot). 4 approaches, all home-brew? Going down to 50'? I've worked in t...

Why don't the Boeings always takeoff at full rated power, and climb at full rated power? Engine longevity, fuel consumption, etc etc. same same See that's what I always thought too but they make a turbo version of the exact same engine that climbs out at 38" every day, so leaving at full throttle a...

"As indicated in LD 5873, the Board determined that Air Canada was not a proper respondent in this matter. It concluded that the core of the union’s allegations against Air Canada related to a common employer application, rather than a complaint that the employer has interfered with the representat...

In case anyone is interested in reading the Final Order dismissing the ULP. Where once again, common employer is mentioned as the only appropriate avenue to address many of the issues. I can't find anywhere where it discusses either single employer or s. 35. I don't think you read it and are referr...

In case anyone is interested in reading the Final Order dismissing the ULP.

For those of you that fly C185 & C206 with the IO-520, why does everyone reduce the throttle after take-off? I understand the prop, but I have never got a good justification why the throttle also needs to be reduced. It's not in the POH.

So if the CIRB allowed Jazz pilots to bargain directly with AC (and have a separate CA and seniority list from AC-and therefore can't bid on AC positions outside of the flow agreement), would that be an acceptable resolution to Jazz pilots?

This case is similar to the one we're discussing. https://decisia.lexum.com/cirb-ccri/cirb-ccri/en/item/522308/index.do In fact, the unions argued very similar arguments as what has been argued here. [148] The argument put forward by the unions is that there are “ghosts at the table” and that it is ...

truedude wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 1:14 pm So if we don't do a s.35, what is it you suggest we do? Roll over and play dead?

File a policy grievance.