I don't think anyone is seriously saying northern medevac is better than Encore. ... By comparing Encore to northern goat show operators, people are being facetious in the comparison as a way to mock the new Encore pay. Maybe a 10% premium is appropriate to tolerate breaking rules for northern crap...

What's the relevance of the comparison to a king air or pc12 operation?

Go fly the pc12 then if you think it's a better job. Ironically the best way to ensure the encore wages will go up.

"I don't care, I'm outta here anyways" That's one of my biggest pet peeves. Jazz couldn't get a bigger FO raise, because then AC would be paying FOs less than Jazz. Sounds to me like a great reason to pay everyone more. If the Q400/regional pilots are making good money, that encourages the 737/NB/m...

Are you asking for someone else’s training material because you don’t believe the training is relevant or important? That’s not a good look for an Air Operator and public safety. Your training exams should be based on your training material not someone else’s. Your COM, your SOP’s, your fleet. Buil...

Freshredmeat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:28 am Also, many simply can't afford it. Do you realize how bad starting pay is at AC? It's literally poverty

Exaggerations like this don't help your case though. It's bad, but it's not poverty.

Tbayer2021 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:46 pm AIP summary attached

What's the meaning of the relocation stuff? Do they pay you 52k if you move for the job??


Would have been a good contract 10 years ago. Hope you all vote this down... It sure won't entice many more pilots to join encore...

Any promises on "flow" should be respectully disregarded. We've seen how that has gone in the past, on both the teal and red sides. Guaranteed seniority and YOS when flowing over should be a given, before any other improvements are offered. No point in spending 5+ years at Encore if you have to sta...

Whatever you do, make them watch the TC video about the Dryden inquiry...."tell the tower we're going back" :lol: It's not particularly good training, but I've had to watch it 20 times so the new generation should have to suffer through it too. It's comforting to know that there have been no icing ...

If you are stupid enough to drink and drive to the point that you had to refuse a breathalyzer, then do us a favour and pick a different career; we don’t want you. I was unfamiliar with the 'refusing breathalizer' option. At what blood alcohol level would it be beneficial to refuse the test? I don’...

tsgarp wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:12 am If you are stupid enough to drink and drive to the point that you had to refuse a breathalyzer, then do us a favour and pick a different career; we don’t want you.

I was unfamiliar with the 'refusing breathalizer' option. At what blood alcohol level would it be beneficial to refuse the test?

Trying to remember how I used to prevent the same in my light turbine twin days. I think our OFP had lines for planned FOB, burn, and uptake on each leg so I’d just finish the math before getting in the plane. Is that not normal? Seems like having that and enforcing its use would be super cheap ins...

Several years ago, I started a thread called “A Top of Climb Check”. It suggested that at the top of climb, the pilot do a check of all the switches and gauges to ensure proper positions and indications. Shortly after reaching their planned cruise altitude , the flight crew carried out the mid-way ...

This is worth what you paid for it, but I don't believe you have anything to worry about. The only times I'm aware of you'll come across an inquiry into your driver's abstract would be for your RAIC, and clearance for a gov't agency or regulated subcontractor. (Medevac, fire, gov't charters, etc) F...

700.27 (2) For the purpose of subsection (1), a flight crew member’s flight time includes (a) the flight time accumulated from other flight operations; and (b) the total flight time of a flight with an augmented flight crew. That's talking about the maximum flight hours in certain periods. That doe...

I see some you are ignorant of conditions in other parts of the World. There are Pilots flying Q400 in Nigeria, India and Angola to give 3 examples. I've spent time in all 3 countries - in 2 of them crews weren't allowed out of the hotel! Pilots in these countries will jump at this opportunity imho...

Most of those types don't make it past sim 2. When a candidate can't fly a normal departure, yet alone handle malfunctions, it becomes obvious that the logbook isn't accurate. Employment gets terminated on the grounds of "you can't fly airplanes". The hiring company only wastes their own time and s...

Location, DEC vs a few years of FO, lifestyle, company stability.

Those are all things that could factor in. At non unionized companies you might be able to negotiate a bit more regarding pay and schedule.

Apestogetherstrong wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:26 pm Here are the payscales

Pretty optimistic they are expecting to make it to jan 1st...

I see some you are ignorant of conditions in other parts of the World. There are Pilots flying Q400 in Nigeria, India and Angola to give 3 examples. I've spent time in all 3 countries - in 2 of them crews weren't allowed out of the hotel! Pilots in these countries will jump at this opportunity imho...

https://amfanational.medium.com/westjet-prepares-for-strike-by-aircraft-maintenance-engineers-union-files-opposition-to-westjets-6851ed0a27ea AMEs are joining the party too. WJ just never learns when it comes to labour relations. What world does the management team live in? AMEs have expressed fury...