CMA loses a stove near CYQU.

Switchfoot · Post by **Switchfoot** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:20 pm

Heard they completed a ground run on the engines because they were having some trouble. Decided everything was okay and headed out. Made it to FL240 and lost all of the oil and had plenty of smoke billowing out.

Returned for an uneventful landing at CYQU (with a neat looking approach). Everyone okay. Good job to the crew!

This was two days ago. Anyone have any other details?

Switchfoot.

Dave T · Post by **Dave T** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:56 pm

Plane was sitting at the QU terminal for a couple days, saw an AME working on it. Gone now, dunno if it's in a hangar or left QU. Didn't look like to much of mess from what I saw.

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:01 pm

Kenmore? Was it gas or electric?

Justwannafly · Post by **Justwannafly** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:22 pm

hazatude wrote:Kenmore? Was it gas or electric?

accualy it was an american made trail stove

The worst part was that the crew had to go home hungry

sprucemonkey · Post by **sprucemonkey** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:08 pm

Stove wasn't lost....it was relocated to the pilot house because theirs broke.

Just saving this sourpuss some time......

The Velvet Fog wrote:Idiot!

Happy now pal?

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:29 pm

WOW! CMA is racking them up.$$$$$
-lost oil pressure about 6 months near Grande Praire
-lost oil pressure about 3 months ago on take off from Edmonton
-lost a PT section on take off somewhere out west.
The pilots are getting their experience on one enigne landings!

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:00 am

The pilots are getting their experience on one enigne landings

Oh no! Not one engine!

Reminds me about the time a B-52 lost an engine, and declared an emergency ... for the dreaded SEVEN engine approach

Switchfoot · Post by **Switchfoot** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:30 am

Dave T wrote: Gone now, dunno if it's in a hangar or left QU. Didn't look like to much of mess from what I saw.

No, it's still there. Sitting in a hangar having the left engine replaced.

Switchfoot

EyeOh · Post by **EyeOh** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:09 pm

Ya 50% of your power vs. 88% power. That's the same.

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:19 pm

any which way you look at it, its still $$$ and bad P.R.!

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:17 pm

Good thing there paying there pilots the big bucks!....................oh wait

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:09 pm

$22,500........

I hope their Dornier pilots have a different pay scale because that pay sucks!!! Well I guess they have lots of money to replace those engines because with that crap pilot pay the owners wallets must be stuffed with $bucks$

. . · Post by **. .** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:50 pm

nope, same pay scale for the dornier too. They sweeten the pot with a bond on the dornier though.

g5 · Post by g5 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:45 am

...and it was only a few years ago half you guys would have given your left nut for a job there.

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:42 am

well times have changed and so has the industry...UP THE PAY!
My roommate just told me the the AMEs got a big raise a week or two ago, any talk of the pilots getting one.

. . · Post by **. .** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:20 am

g5: There was guys complaining about the payscale and the bond 2 years ago too. This ins't a recent happening.

SRV · Post by **SRV** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:37 am

Hedley wrote:
Reminds me about the time a B-52 lost an engine, and declared an emergency ... for the dreaded SEVEN engine approach

I overheard a C-5 near S'toon heading for Alaska tell Winnipeg they had to shut an engine down and were requesting a clearance back to home base...in South Carolina.

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:18 pm

maybe one day they up the pilots wage too........=

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:53 pm

So why have a 12 year pay scale if it tops out after 8?

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:23 pm

because CMAs owners think newbie pilots aren't smart enough to realize this and will enter with a smile and hope

invertedattitude · Post by **invertedattitude** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:03 am

How low is low time?

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:27 pm

Depends how low they go when they drop to their knees in the interview

onzulutime · Post by **onzulutime** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:20 pm

Oh my lord...is that all a CMA Capt makes after 12 years? Gee, that's an incentive to stay with the airline. Not. A Cathay Capt makes $214k a year at the 12year mark. But I guess they offer other perks....as mentioned in this post.

tincanflyer · Post by **tincanflyer** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:51 am

other perks???????!?????.......LIKE?????

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:44 am

other perks???????!?????.......LIKE?????

On your days off you can fly to Lloydminster for next to nothing!