transwest air

KOZMO · Post by **KOZMO** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:34 pm

What I find interesting is that people on here tend to have a lot to say when they can hide. As far as the company, good times. Been here 4 years and there are a lot of good people working here. We have some of the best paid guys per type. How many King air capt's make over 50 in canada? As far as any of the managing partners, well you do your job and you won't hear from them. simple. If your an idiot, well you get the picture. I find it interesting that people always say that we'll be done in 6 to 12. Been 5 years now. Try to keep up. If you don't know what your talking about, then please don't. Let westwind start a sked. Remember the other sked operator? Sorry to the guys that i know that worked there. Actually all the guys that worked there. Sad to see people out of work. Good bunch of guys too. It happens. Little bit of compition is a good thing. And as far as richie, Keep up the good work man. When you do as much off strip work as some of our TO drivers, one is bound to get bent once and a while. We all make mistakes. It's how we learn as a pilot group from them that counts. That and no one gets hurt.

Unlike the rest of you i always sign my name. I don't have reason to hide.

Kozmo

Pushing Tin · Post by **Pushing Tin** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:49 pm

We all make mistakes. It's how we learn as a pilot group from them that counts.

I guess that makes Richie one hell of a good Tearcher...

Keegs · Post by **Keegs** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:05 pm

I usually just drop by without posting because I have felt it a waste of my time to recognize some of these posts let alone encourage the writers by replying. However, this whole strip has become a personal issue and I feel it is necessary to address the following issues....

tripleseven said

They unfortunatly will likely last longer than 6-12 months, but only because Norcanair quit. If a company were to come in and give consumers someone else to fly with and provide a better service (not difficult), TW would die. A five year old could run a better airline there

I take that comment very personally because I am a Captain on a Jetstream that does the scheduled runs providing the implied poor service. The crew of the aircraft together with the ground support are the ones that ensure that the passengers are comfortable, and that they arrive at their destination in a safe and timely fashion with all of their freight and baggage. I know that I bust my ass loading that freight and baggage and make personal sacrifices to provide an excellent service, and I expect the same from my fellow employees. I have high expectations and I can say that everyone that I work with hold themselves to the same standards.

Pushing Tin said

Too much to begin quoting

I don't even want to acknowledge those postings because of what I said before about encouraging idiots.

However, Richie is a friend of mine as well. And I am quite frankly disgusted that Tin would have the audacity to attack Richie on a personal level on a site that is read by thousands. Richie is one of the nicest guys I know, and a solid, hard working pilot.

I will quote this tho:

Tin said

I guess that does make him Senior at "Damaging Planes"!! LOL !!!

And this extends to anyone else who has had any sort of incident. It is no one's business but the person involved, and his/her superiors as per the chain of command as determined by the individual company. Incidents and accidents are published for the benefit of the rest of us to learn from, however they are anonymous for a reason. The point is to address the issue and to move forward in a positive, constructive manner.

To begin an attack on an individual is cowardly at best, and to broadcast your own negative opinions of another over the internet while hiding behind a screen is despicable.

Every one is entitled to their opinion, but what happened to following the simple rule of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

To all the guys and gals at TW...keep up the good work...

To those who find it necessary to criticize... validate your comments by signing your name....

I just flew 9.7 hours ending with a stellar PMA ILS approach by the Juice. After two laps up and down the province and 2000 miles under the belt, its time for a Keiths at Bacchus.

Keegs

flybye · Post by **flybye** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:07 pm

Great post Keegs!

The combined entities of the two founding companies have been in business for nearly 100 years. They have pretty much seen and done it all. Pilots come and go (and engineers, avionics techs, ramp rats, dock hands, clerks, base managers, etc, even owners/founders), as well as competitors, like the Original Norcanair (doubt anyone here can even remember them), Time Air/CRA, Norcanair v2.0, Norcanair v3.0, and I'm sure WW will give it a shot. TWA will just keep chugging along, providing a launch pad for many more pilots careers.

I can relate to your comments about posting on here, it gets very petty. Sometimes people just can't get over/around something, so they lash out at the most convenient target.

There's an old saying, and I know people specifically from the old AAL side of things that take this to heart, "Don't throw stones in 'Glass' houses."

A person's outlook on others can invariably come around to bite them in the a$$!

Go enjoy your beer; maybe I'll join you there someday!

turbo-prop · Post by **turbo-prop** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:26 pm

You can say trash Transwest all you want like everybody does about every company on here, but when you start bashing a pilot at the company thats going to far. I use to work there a few years ago and had the opportunity to work with Ritchie, he was a stand up guy and i learnt a lot from him just from swamping one summer on the turbo otter.

Pushing Tin · Post by **Pushing Tin** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:35 pm

Hey Kozmo, whats all this off strip work you are talking about. The guys up in Yellowknife do more off strip work in one day then TWA does in a year, they don't seem to bang up any airplanes.

Rainy · Post by **Rainy** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:38 pm

Maybe that's because they pay their guys almost double what TWA does. You know, you only get what you pay for these days !!!

KOZMO · Post by **KOZMO** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:19 am

Keegs,

Stellar post man. As you all can see, we tend to stick together and fight for whats right. Anyone who flies in sask knows us by our nick names, Kozmo, Keegs, Juice, etc. etc. Still people are posting and talking smack, and have thier wifes/girlfriends panties on and won't post a name. That tells me right there you have no balls. So i will not waste anymore of my time on you. I will still post on here and defend my company. and it's pilots because i believe in them both. I would fly with any of them, anyday. We do the best of our ability, and our company backs us. What more could you ask for?

KOZMO

tripleseven · Post by **tripleseven** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:57 pm

Keegs, Kozmo,

I'm sorry if I offended either of you. If you guys really enjoy it there, and want to retire thirty years from now flying said Jetstreams and King Airs, knock your socks off, it's not for me. It sounds like there is too much butt-kissing going on around there.

As for anyone ridiculing someones incidents online or through whatever channel, shame on you. What goes around, comes around.

When you do as much off strip work as some of our TO drivers, one is bound to get bent once and a while.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the only off-strip work they do is on water (either liquid or frozen). And yes, occasionally an airframe is going to get bent.

RidersRule · Post by **RidersRule** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:06 pm

I'm not here to defend the company, attack it all you want. But when you attack a person and still refuse to put your name, that shows me you are a coward with tiny balls. Richie stopped by tonight, and when he turned his back, we all laughed at him(Just for you Tin), and then we laughed at your posts. I am sure you have never bent a piece of metal, got violated by transport, or had to write an incident report. You are a god, and deserve to be treated as such, but the only way to do that is to tell us who you are, so we can worship you. Tell us who you are pushing tin, please o please. Your shrine awaits.

I have heard that this company is going tits up since I started here five years ago.
"Yep, six to twelve months"
"Cash your cheques early".
"Norcain is killing them"(nothing against them)

And yet here we are. Has it got its problems, hell ya. Does it pay the bills, you bet. Will it be here tommorrow, absolutly.

But the one thing this company is got is great people, LaRonge especially, (maybe I'm biased) you guys know who you are. I look forward to visiting you f*&kers this summer.

spillvalve · Post by **spillvalve** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:19 am

hey keegs right on man.
haven't herd from you in a dogs age
hope to see ya at the cabin this summer

give me a PM when you get a chance

later dude

EAZYDOESIT · Post by **EAZYDOESIT** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:49 am

For all the shat being spat on the T-Dub about this and that, there isn't really much of a point being made. Most of it is heresay and propaganda I would assume. So we've decided that its a great work environment, which I agree with. And there are some downsides as well, which I also agree with. (Sounds like every other job out there to me) I made over 45K a year before I moved here and I'd have to say that I enjoy this 17K job a lot more. Ya they may not pay that well, but f*ck it , mo' money mo' problems anyway right. If you don't work here, don't dis the Company and its employees. Maybe worry about your own s*itty life and let us worry about ours.
As for R.C. I think he's a good guy, no worries there.

For all you who know who this is..... keep it tight boys!!
And for those about to rock.....WE SALUTE YOU

Carl O'D · Post by **Carl O'D** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:28 am

Yeah, heard this one before. Bout a couple of years ago, I left to go back to a company in Manitoba called Pim Air. And I gave TW Air 30 days notice. Guess guys normally do that kind of thing to bad companies. Then after 10 months Pim Air went bust, kind of almost the same thing that is happening in Manitoba to Skyward right now. As I made my way south, a friend by the name of Koz found me before I left the province, long story short, get your ass back in La Ronge right now. After one year was promoted and moved to La Ronge out of the north. My, sounds like a bad place, doesn't it?

Last summer my name was thrashed under some similar lines, I chose to ignore it and continue status quo, however this kind of behavior is getting rediculous.

I usually pass these threads by without even commenting but this infantile behavior initiated by one person has to be quelled.

I do not do the off strip work that Richie does, but I occassionally have a beer with him, sometimes he even gets stuck with the tab, not a great curler though, but he ain't cheap. We all may not agree on everything, asside from one thing, whoever this person is, he does not reflect the views of all. Whoever you are, whatever you do, if you don't like it here you can always leave.

Juice · Post by **Juice** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:22 pm

FAGS!!!

KOZMO · Post by **KOZMO** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:33 pm

Behind every good man is a good women. Behind every good company is it's employee's. Glad to see the LA boys protecting their own. As well as the YXE crew. good to go to work with good people that you know will get your back.

Kozmo

Remember A check ride should be like a skirt. Short enough to be interesting, but just long enough to cover everything!!

KISS_MY_TCAS · Post by **KISS_MY_TCAS** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:36 am

This thread starts with someone looking for info on a rumour that TW is looking for 'ho drivers, and turns into this. I have never met Richie, but have heard more than enough opinions on him outside this thread that I am not so sure I would be anxious to shake his hand. The entire last page of this thread is full of TW drivers slapping each others butts and boosting morale, seems a little odd to me but these are the guys that keep the company running.

Lets face it, TW like any operator has its problems, NCA's demise will likely mean great things for TW now. But lets face it, when owners need to take out a line of credit to order parts, pilots are fuelling SAABs on thier personal credit cards to make it home because the fuellers won't take TW's card, and Keegs flies one of the many airplanes they have sold over the last couple of years out of town, the industry stands up and notices. The company has always had a reputation of being perpetually on the brink on bankruptcy but has never died. Quite obviously, they are doing something right, but to outsiders it looks like chaos. Hate Richie all you want, he is but a small part of a company full of guys that bust thier a$$es to keep the company running. I have believed for years that if TW didn't have such a good group employed, they would have been dust many years ago. Very commendable to everyone employed there.

Nark · Post by **Nark** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:31 am

TCAS:

Having a good group's of hard working employee's doesn't mean squat in the aviation biz. I've worked for a few companies, two of them now bankrupt. Both had great employees, working hard for the company. I worked for NDA a while back. I'd love to know what happened there. The other was Pim Air in YTH. It was obvious what went wrong there.

Now I work for a "company" that garuntee's me a paycheck for the next number of years. Our planes can do some pretty cool shit, like break the sound barrier, and blow shit up. This last paragragh has no relevance to the thread, but I love bragging about my new job.

Tacks,
Semper Fidelis.

Pushing Tin · Post by **Pushing Tin** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:09 am

like it was said this thread was started in regards to the hard working dedicated pilots getting screwed. Just because someone already works for the company doesn't mean their mistakes and asskissing the right people isn't screwing the ones that do their job well and won't lower themselves to kiss ass. there are MANY employees that work very hard and don't kiss ass that are getting overlooked for positions or screwed in the positions they already have.

tripleseven · Post by **tripleseven** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:29 am

That is correct.

FLOATER · Post by **FLOATER** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:51 am

Kozmo,carl you two fellows i do know and are stand up guys......The big R has damaged more planes,and smoked more tires of planes than most people know off.There are so many stories out there about him scareing people,his attitude,and how half of his custumers don't like him,I still wonder why they keep him.As for the two partners,Jr.is good....Jim G. is an ass.As for the rest of the pilots hope,they all seem decent.I remember Ritchie in ysf,telling some lower time pilots that there wasn't many old bushpilots like him left .....lol...

EAZYDOESIT · Post by **EAZYDOESIT** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:48 pm

I have a dream.....I'm talkin about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin about a little place called LaRonge.

lowlevel - Base pay starts at 900/month plus milage with raises every 500 PIC, unless your a navajo f/o, then you get 1350/month and thats it. Almost everything is done two crew. With singles and 310's being the exception.

prairiedog - Isn't the Aviation Industry about providing an air transportation service to people who are willing to pay for it. I didn't realize we are all hicks either, but it did seem strange that I spent most of my days chewing on hay while assisting struggling sheep through fences. Thanks for clearing that up.

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:56 pm

RC is a good guy and I've always got along with him.( I have more total time) But he treats pilots with less time than him quite poorly. He's been kicked out of virtually every lodge in the YSF and ZWL area for yelling at guests. (Hatchett)
Maybe he's changed, I would hope so, but he had a very serious "God complex" and it seemed as though every time he damaged an airplane, he got promoted. Despite his history, he spent next to no time in the right seat of the 1900 before he got captain where he proceeded to nearly run the Beech off the end of the runway, after a PMA, in YQR. (so much so that tower had to confirm is position on the runway - and btw the first officer got the riot act from daddy) The guy has had too many incidents to just have poor luck and his attitude was very poor. But maybe he's changed.

In my 8 years there, I would have been fired for less. That's my five cents....

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:58 pm

FLOATER wrote:I remember Ritchie in ysf,telling some lower time pilots that there wasn't many old bushpilots like him left .....lol...

He got the nick name "king richard" after that one.

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:00 pm

And his rants as "flaps 10 props 85" or whatever the hell he used to call himself didn't win him any friends either. What goes around comes around.....

avray · Post by **avray** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:05 pm

easy does it fellas

transwest air

huh

sup

Bad company huh??

wow.