After the honeymoon stage, what companies do you love to work for?
List`em and perhaps a reason.
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hotel hobo
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http://www.cheapflights.com/airlines/hooters.html
However, I heard a terrible rumour that they went tits up ... this airline may just be a fond mammary.
However, I heard a terrible rumour that they went tits up ... this airline may just be a fond mammary.
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hotel hobo
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Scuba_Steve
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just curious
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It isn't much of a secret that I work for Borek. With a fair amount of time in, and a network of friends who have gone on to AC, Jazz, WJ, Cathay, First Air, Canadian North, Sprint, the RCMP, hell, almost any 705 in Canada- I could likely get another job with little effort.
A great many of the people who were here and left are happy in their new jobs, which is good, since they were for most of them, permanent moves.
But, after 15000 hours here, I am still happy say 90% of the time. I believe that being happy 100% of the time requires medication no matter where you work.
The things that made me grit my teeth over the years have mostly been addressed.
We have training in things that over the years one was expected to know intuitively. And each year, the depth and quality of the training has grown. Training materials have increased in quality with every groundschool.
We have maintainers who have pretty much adopted certain aircraft, bases and contracts as their own. Our guys harvest aircraft from jungles deserts and ice floes, resurrect them and then rebuild them to like new condition. I would have a hard time going to a new outfit without looking long and hard at their maintenance. I'll have the same engineer on the Ice that I have had for the last three years. One of our other crews had the same engineer for eight.
Maintenance for us has actually become the routine maintenance and engineering. Components- wings, floats, skis, tundra wheels, interiors- are things we now produce.
Balancing money and lifestyle is easy. For me at least, I have no style, so my money is good. Money has gone up steadily. I don't know what an average FO makes in a year, since most of mine do the Antarctic and work more days than the standard FO. In theory at least, everyone in the northern operation rotates 2 weeks in & out or three weeks in & out. Pay is base plus a daily rate, rather than mileage, thus avoiding the temptation at the end of the month to try and push the weather and luck to get another 1000 miles in.
My normal aircraft, the polar ones, are well set-up for our operation in several ways. On shut-down. plug, wrap and go, and our machines, radios included are ready to fly in -40. Comms include phone and HF. They both work. Each has a kit for prolonged bush ops, & a survival kit. Our STCs for the otter comprise the nucleus of the changes on the 400 series Twin Otter that Viking will be building.
We have a dozen machines that have been to the north and south poles. In the same year. We have a dozen captains with 5000 hours or better on the otter.
We aren't a white shirt and tie crowd. We don't get to park at a gate. And if we want coffee it's usually from a thermos, rather than Timmie's. But I got to see three provinces 3 territories, Alaska, South America and Antarctica in the last 9 months. In detail.
A great many of the people who were here and left are happy in their new jobs, which is good, since they were for most of them, permanent moves.
But, after 15000 hours here, I am still happy say 90% of the time. I believe that being happy 100% of the time requires medication no matter where you work.
The things that made me grit my teeth over the years have mostly been addressed.
We have training in things that over the years one was expected to know intuitively. And each year, the depth and quality of the training has grown. Training materials have increased in quality with every groundschool.
We have maintainers who have pretty much adopted certain aircraft, bases and contracts as their own. Our guys harvest aircraft from jungles deserts and ice floes, resurrect them and then rebuild them to like new condition. I would have a hard time going to a new outfit without looking long and hard at their maintenance. I'll have the same engineer on the Ice that I have had for the last three years. One of our other crews had the same engineer for eight.
Maintenance for us has actually become the routine maintenance and engineering. Components- wings, floats, skis, tundra wheels, interiors- are things we now produce.
Balancing money and lifestyle is easy. For me at least, I have no style, so my money is good. Money has gone up steadily. I don't know what an average FO makes in a year, since most of mine do the Antarctic and work more days than the standard FO. In theory at least, everyone in the northern operation rotates 2 weeks in & out or three weeks in & out. Pay is base plus a daily rate, rather than mileage, thus avoiding the temptation at the end of the month to try and push the weather and luck to get another 1000 miles in.
My normal aircraft, the polar ones, are well set-up for our operation in several ways. On shut-down. plug, wrap and go, and our machines, radios included are ready to fly in -40. Comms include phone and HF. They both work. Each has a kit for prolonged bush ops, & a survival kit. Our STCs for the otter comprise the nucleus of the changes on the 400 series Twin Otter that Viking will be building.
We have a dozen machines that have been to the north and south poles. In the same year. We have a dozen captains with 5000 hours or better on the otter.
We aren't a white shirt and tie crowd. We don't get to park at a gate. And if we want coffee it's usually from a thermos, rather than Timmie's. But I got to see three provinces 3 territories, Alaska, South America and Antarctica in the last 9 months. In detail.
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just curious
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Petite's absolutely right. We like the known wankers and complainersPerhaps most would like to keep their companies a secret from unknown wankers and complainers?
Come to think of it Petite's joint would be brutal to work at. Drive to work in traffic'd run 5, maybe 6 minutes. I'd snap. Scenery every which way you look, I'd have a stiff neck.
Worse if I was a pilot there. Every time I swapped seats with the old guy there, I'd have to move the seat all the way forward, and all the way up...
Too far south too.
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GroundSpeed
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Alberta Central Airways Ltd.
best small company in Canada
http://www.pilotcareercentre.com/JobRes ... lineID=259
best small company in Canada
http://www.pilotcareercentre.com/JobRes ... lineID=259
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'effin hippie
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Justwannafly
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The fresh maker
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I 2nd that! The best job anyone could have starting outlooproll wrote:Alberta Central Airways Ltd.
best small company in Canada
http://www.pilotcareercentre.com/JobRes ... lineID=259
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Justwannafly
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hmmm either they are a good company to work for or a lot of their managment hang out on avcanadaCaptain X wrote:I 2nd that! The best job anyone could have starting outlooproll wrote:Alberta Central Airways Ltd.
best small company in Canada
http://www.pilotcareercentre.com/JobRes ... lineID=259
