While travel will undoubtedly return, the WAWCON for pilots will not. It has been on a downward trajectory even during boom times. At some point single pilot flight decks will happen (10 years, 30 years, who knows) as Airbus/Boeing are already working on it.

True enough. The industry is very cyclical. I don’t see the WAWCON improving in Canada much (if it doesn’t get worse), regardless of what the USA does.

It seems like every week there is either some bad news or some permanent agreement lowering pilot wages another 20% forever. I once wanted to pursue a pilot career but even in the best 2/3 years in history it seemed your best bet was to drive a forklift for at least a year to make $20,000 a year in...

I assume anyone complaining about a low cost airline never buys anything from Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy etc....The general public wants to pay less. For everything. And fair enough. But the byproduct of that is cutting wages. Retail jobs have taken a nose dive in pay, benefits and working condition...

I do have to chuckle at the social media reaction from passengers. They love the idea of lower fares ... but want more leg room, free bags, food, and of course better service. :rolleyes: Judging by the Encore startup, they will no doubt try to hire at 10% lower than industry standard pay with shit w...

Or maybe the working conditions could be improved so that it's not an unsafe operation (if the details posted are true, IMO those kinds of schedules and conditions are indeed unsafe) *without* closing down the company and booting everyone out of work. If losing jobs was an allowed rationale for lett...

To all the Crews out there, stay safe, look out for each other.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/m ... /86245160/

Sounds like you're planning on coming to Canada to stay, is that correct? If so, you'll need to look at the immigration process to do so (unless you're already dual citizenship of course). Without the right to work here, your plan is dead in the water. I'd make sure you can process through the immig...

@TheStig Your reaction is being questioned as you made a vague statement damning the federal government based on your opinion of military funding with no specifics or useful information. It comes across as political noise, finger pointing. Would having 10 Hercs and Chinooks sit in Cold Lake 24/7 in ...

Nice chart, couple small corrections: Sky - pay rates increase about 2% a year, plus up to another 1.5 for CPI - USA perdiems are adjusted for the average monthly conversion rate - there is profit sharing, however, you don't get paid out until 2 years service and if you leave prior then you get nada...

The restaurant, Landing 27, was a local family business that built up a good rep and customer base over the last couple of years (they started after the airport reno's when they put up the new building). They were open all year, and had good for good prices (mostly breakfast and lunch bistro type st...

The quotes below are taken directly from the FAQ section of their website. Some people want a body that controls licensing to control supply and demand: HOW DOES THE COLLEGE FIT WITH TRANSPORT CANADA AND ICAO? Being a professional pilot is much different than other professions as we can practice our...

Being prepared for your lessons is highly important. Make sure you're ready by studying what you'll cover (from the ground up, flight training manual, AFM, any relevant info the instructor gives you) prior to showing for your flight. That means theoretical knowledge, aircraft and procedural knowledg...

Besides, the objections are to the concept of perpetual subscription payments for a function - syncing - that was previously part of the purchased software's functionality. (Well, actually they never did get iCloud syncing working properly, but that's another story). People are pissed at the recurr...

Leveraging your mortgage for investments is a good idea, as long as the interest rates remain low. Since no one knows when they will go up, you're in a bit of a gamble. People with sub-prime mortgages found that out the hard way south of the border a few years ago (how quickly we forget), and lost e...

I always wondered about renting vs buying I terms of financial investment, found a really useful tool.

Rent vs Buy Calculator

Edit: I didn't read the OP closely enough, your clearance limits apply only to controlled airspace so yes, you have to follow whatever instructions (including fixes and transitions) until clear of controlled airspace. After that, it's uncontrolled procedures (ATF and enroute calls).

CS, love the pic, but can't say I see that too often on bikers driving down the highway. Usually they are wearing something rather more practical. But hey, if you think that is representative of what bikers wear, you're welcome to it.

This thread is hilarious, and contains a high amount of inanity. Biker's wear leather to avoid road rash when they spill, and wear other stuff 'cause they happen to like how it looks (or for association). No, I'm not a biker, not my thing. People wear hats to keep themselves from frying. And getting...

Answer me this first. Do you know the wages and conditions at AGL or are you listening to the negative hype by the Jazz guys who lost the work? I make 76 - 86 K as a Captain with per-diems plus OT vs whatever a Jazz FO makes which would be my other option - how is this wrong? Plus I don't have to m...

Colonel Sanders wrote:It doesn't matter how much high tech
junk engineers stuff into airplanes, pilots
still figure out a way to crash them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France ... nal_report
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Air ... _214#Crash

QFT.

Asiana comes to mind.

The biggest problem with checklists aren't the checklists, it's the people using them. I have seen countless pilots in airline ops, sitting both right and left seat, machine gun through "Command and Response" checks in order to just "get them done". You can sit there and basically say anything (even...

I've spent 13 years of my life living in Kingston, and while the winters sucked (the howling wind, walking across Pervert Park) the summers are awesome. http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/queens-engineers.jpg If you're not in the pen, it's a pretty nice place to be, really. I ho...

I would suggest common sense is more a way of thinking than anything; a combination of awareness, critical thinking, being able to implement what you have decided upon, and finally re-evaluating and making changes as the situation evolves. It's a continual loop, unfortunately sometimes people seem t...

Your reading comprehension is terrible: Mach1 wrote: We've all made mistakes. Most of us caught the mistakes in time or were lucky enough to recover from it before winding up on the internet. All people are fallible and no one is perfect. I hope that this is viewed as a learning experience by the c...