flyingcanuck wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:41 am

lownslow wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:40 am

What does OWG stand for?

Off we go

Excellent. An abbreviation that has more syllables than what it was supposed to shorten.

What does OWG stand for?

Well that’s tragic timing...

stef wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 6:14 am

Was this map pulled from social media by chance? At a glance, looks like Norway House, Nakina and La Grande are among our hotspots.

Per capita, maybe? Or just made up.

I’m torn. I can appreciate their honesty in the job ad, it just reads a little dickish. Enough to make me question whether the folks who wrote this are really people I want to work for over any long period.

leftoftrack wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:30 pm

what is a twf?

Temporary Worker: Foreign. It sounds more badass to say it that way, kind of like James Bond would. Or Yoda.

Weird hill to die on but you do you.

Why shouldn’t it be? It’s a generally reliable source of cheap yet hard working labour and with the right company it makes for a more well-rounded pilot. On the rampie’s side of things you get to have your foot jammed in the door while hiring is slow. Just don’t go to work for the serial abusers.

Inverted2 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 29, 2020 3:46 pm

Saw their 777 at YYZ yesterday and was reminded of this, but I figured if you’ve survived long enough to make 777 without making any craters you’re probably at least semi safe.

So, like, should those guys get their honorary ATPLs then based on achievement?

iflyforpie wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:59 am

I know quite a few who managed to segue back into their former positions

Me too, hell I almost am one, but I know more who just stuck their heads in the sand back in March. Not all have yet figured out how serious the situation is but little by little I imagine they will.

iflyforpie wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:20 pm

Yeah, I’m pretty sure everyone who has a current BE20 PPC is already working.

You figure? I bet there’s an awful lot of BE20 FOs who left their jobs in the last year for Porter/Sunwing/Transat (to name an obvious few) who are beginning to think that they may not get called back for a while...

Gonna need a big bowl of rice for that one...

'97 Tercel wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 8:17 pm

Funny, I’ve made a bunch of friends recently too.

That's a tall tale and you know it

Busted.

Funny, I’ve made a bunch of friends recently too. Folks who did all sorts of backstabby crap in the past, no less. The joke’s on them, I’m worse off than they are now.

So if Pivot Airlines does an outstanding job how many of you would let go of their Georgian past? Or would you hold it against them forever?

Integrated if you can get into one of the subsidized courses, hometown flight school if you can’t.

The whole forum frequently get mads that a job listing calls for decent reading comprehension, but also this thread happens.

Does that program still exist now? If so, will it go on for much longer?

CpnCrunch wrote: ↑

Mon May 04, 2020 11:44 am

jakeandelwood wrote: ↑

Mon May 04, 2020 11:33 am

BD-5... small and fast

I like fast, but not when it has a 50% chance of killing me

Just be better than 50% of your peers.

There is still an inherent higher operational risk to military operations. The Acceptable Level of Safety definition is different than you’d find in civil aviation and some of the operational maneuvers military aircraft do routinely would not be acceptable from civilian operators. I would have thou...

Am I missing something? Yes, there is no requirement to navigate solely on airways here. I’ve done long IFR legs off airways without GPS (on the way to the shop to get one installed) by figuring out reception range at my planned altitude and just hopscotching direct between convenient VORs. I hear ...

One of the light technologies, I think it was LED, doesn’t appear in night vision goggles so I guess increased risk of collision with a coast guard helicopter if you’re running drugs. Also LED lights run cool so they won’t melt off ice that forms on them.

jakeandelwood wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:40 pm

Classic aviation job ad, 9 paragraphs long and not one single detail about the job.

Doesn’t really inspire confidence in the folks running the place, does it?

Well, at least us quibbling here all have good positions to eventually go back to, in whatever incarnation they may be. I feel terrible for the guys in places they don't want to be I feel worse for the guys who would have been in cancelled groundschools. In a lot of cases they quit their old jobs a...

FICU wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:13 pm

The more concerning thing is that China is profiting off of their viral pandemic

Yes, the place that has the population density and general disregard for safety is both a breeding place for communicable disease AND a powerhouse of cheap production. Who’d have thought?