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by Dockjock
Sat Oct 15, 2016 5:51 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: How often do Air Canada Mainline Pilots use Mathematics on the job?
Replies: 23
Views: 9465

Re: How often do Air Canada Mainline Pilots use Mathematics on the job?

Basic math is an easy screening tool in hiring. No, there isn't a ton of math on the job anymore but there is some, and what math there is its best to have people who are able to complete it quickly. When you're faced with many candidates for a job, omitting ones who literally can't do any math is a...
by Dockjock
Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:39 am
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: YYZ pilot questions
Replies: 33
Views: 24245

Re: YYZ pilot questions

Well it sure feels like something fishy is going on, because an alleged training success rate over a two year period should not be 0%. Looks like tower in the weak link. Who are they accountable to, if anybody?
by Dockjock
Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:27 am
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: YYZ pilot questions
Replies: 33
Views: 24245

Re: YYZ pilot questions

Agreed on the STARS postmaster, and agreed on the reasons they don't do this at YYZ, ZBBYLW. Now the question is, why is the entire thing even structured this way, putting arrivals and departures in conflict unless the controller intervenes and cancels the published restrictions? Brutal. I've heard ...
by Dockjock
Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:27 pm
Forum: ATS Question Forum
Topic: YYZ pilot questions
Replies: 33
Views: 24245

YYZ pilot questions

In no particular order. -Why isn't 06R/24L being used? It's been a month, it feels like. It just sits there gathering dust. -Why is descent clearance on LINNG arrival almost always late ie. Impossible to meet downwind constraints? We ask for constraints deleted, answer is always yes. Shouldn't they ...
by Dockjock
Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:00 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: First few years pay
Replies: 68
Views: 27214

Re: First few years pay

The C series is going to pay more than the EMJ so I doubt it goes as junior, even if the flying will be similar. And my read on the large cohort of ex-Jazz pilots who have been hired thus far is that many will be gunning for a left seat ASAP. So in all likelihood the narrowbody captain spots will no...
by Dockjock
Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:54 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: What age is too old to go to AC and collect a full pension?
Replies: 33
Views: 16573

Re: What age is too old to go to AC and collect a full pension?

By no means am I a financial expert but the "funding holiday" seems like such a bad idea. Right now the company is making record profits (great news) so wouldn't right now be a great time to over fund the pension since they are flush with cash? This way during the next inevitable downturn when cash...
by Dockjock
Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:19 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: What kind of watch do you wear?
Replies: 50
Views: 16586

Re: What kind of watch do you wear?

And if you don't wear it for a couple days it stops! Mon dieu. Love the cool watches fellas, you know who you are.

Hmm, no Timex in this list. Strange...http://gearpatrol.com/2014/08/19/iconic ... in-movies/
by Dockjock
Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:07 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: What kind of watch do you wear?
Replies: 50
Views: 16586

Re: What kind of watch do you wear?

I've never been a fan of the expensive watches. Have a Breitling and it can't keep time..... It's more a collection piece rather than a watch in the proper sense. Certainly not going to use it for flying because of that. The fake Rolexes you can get in Hong Kong (well, at least the *good* fakes) ke...
by Dockjock
Sun Mar 06, 2016 9:07 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: What kind of watch do you wear?
Replies: 50
Views: 16586

Re: What kind of watch do you wear?

I like automatic watches because they're amazing little pieces of engineering and history, and really the one piece of jewellery a man can wear without sticking out. A date complication, GMT, and maybe a chronograph and that's it for me (in terms of a pilot watch). The E6B, ELTs and whatnot are to m...
by Dockjock
Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:09 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: What kind of shoes do you wear?
Replies: 77
Views: 36276

Re: What kind of shoes do you wear?

I agree that you should dress for conditions. If you are an airline pilot, your conditions are inside terminals, bridge to the airplane, and hotels. Tell me with a straight face that it is an outside job. It ain't. Bringing something else to trudge around in snow in downtown Calgary on your layover ...
by Dockjock
Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:13 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: What kind of shoes do you wear?
Replies: 77
Views: 36276

Re: What kind of shoes do you wear?

This thread, man. Kills me. Blundstones with a suit, you guys are...well, I don't blame you because everybody does it and seems to think its OK. They're the Doc Martens of today. C'mon. Blundstones look good if you're the lead singer in a band or maybe a landscape foreman. Boots? If you're from Texa...
by Dockjock
Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:53 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: The journey is better than the destination
Replies: 10
Views: 2007

Re: The journey is better than the destination

Too true, lived a very close version of that and agree completely pie.
by Dockjock
Sat Nov 21, 2015 4:17 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Anyone went to EK roadshow ?
Replies: 12
Views: 6809

Re: Anyone went to EK roadshow ?

tbaylx wrote:
I read last year 40,000 applicants from 227 countries applied. 2000 positions were filled. (this includes all flight crew positions).

Copied from PPRUNE
There are fewer than 200 countries in this planet, maybe they had some applicants from others?
by Dockjock
Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:33 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Air Canada Pool
Replies: 1316
Views: 429691

Re: Air Canada Pool

Deferring a course date is very risky given the number and pace of changes relating to hiring policy that have been occuring recently. Overlaid on the cyclical nature of the business, it's naive to think that your reserved place at the table is more than a best effort commitment. Take it, make it re...
by Dockjock
Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:30 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Air Canada Pool
Replies: 1316
Views: 429691

Re: Air Canada Pool

That's obviously the main reason that flow agreements are stupid, in my opinion. While in place, they depress wages because pilots are attracted by the prospect of a so-called guaranteed interview. Remove them, or limit them, and there is no attraction to work for there, other than being employed is...
by Dockjock
Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:00 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Air Canada Accident in YHZ
Replies: 414
Views: 79941

Re: Air Canada Accident in YHZ

-baro ref flashes on the airbus if you descend through transition level without deselecting STD and setting the local QNH. Given that they spend at least :40 below FL180 it seems unlikely that they could have missed that -FPA is set to one decimal place so -3.08 charted would be set as -3.1. AC proc...
by Dockjock
Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:33 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Air Canada Pool
Replies: 1316
Views: 429691

Re: Air Canada Pool

Nobody Cares About You, aka working for a big corporation. I kinda felt guilty about my post a few weeks ago but when I saw this I thought of y'all. It's not personal.
http://lifehacker.com/the-company-you-w ... 1692113529
Good luck to all, still a great job.
by Dockjock
Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:01 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Air Canada Pool
Replies: 1316
Views: 429691

Re: Air Canada Pool

Sorry to have insulted you flashpoint. It is damn hard waiting for something that seemed so close. My point is that to the airline where a new hire pilot came from- hiring pool, regional flow agreement, nepotism, doesn't matter as long as the seat is filled. There is nothing fair about it but on the...
by Dockjock
Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:25 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: Air Canada Pool
Replies: 1316
Views: 429691

Re: Air Canada Pool

Pilots are a commodity, mostly. If it makes you feel any better (it probably doesn't), macro hiring decision like this are made with greater goals in mind than what may or may not be fair to people on an individual level. This Jazz deal saves AC money in both the short and long term, and was done at...

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