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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Floatplane pilots
- Replies: 15
- Views: 693
Re: Floatplane pilots
PS. Speaking of cheap operators look at the job advertisement for the MNRF Turbo Beaver Pilot. Absolutely embarrassing!!! I really hope they don't find anyone that is willing to work for that kind of money in 2024. Any human being that accepts that job is scab and is fueling the poverty wages ever ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Floatplane pilots
- Replies: 15
- Views: 693
Re: Floatplane pilots
The talent pool for float pilots is shrinking every year. In my opinion float pilots are an endangered species on their way to extinction. Operators that are willing to open their check books and pay decent money will be able to find pilots. Cheap/stingy operators won't be able to find pilots and ma...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: ALPA signing new agreements with training bonds
- Replies: 85
- Views: 12131
Re: ALPA signing new agreements with training bonds
This sounds a bit like "let them eat cake". Not everyone will get an interview invite from a company with signing bonuses. As you said yourself, those are pretty uncommon even in today's environment. More might get an interview with a signing bonus if they stopped signing bonds. Other places like O...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Biennial flight review requirement coming to Canada from 2024
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5656
Re: Biennial flight review requirement coming to Canada from 2024
I love it Transport Canada coming out with stupid regulations in the guise of "making aviation safer." Very similar to the water egress training that was mandated in the spring of 2023. It won't make float flying safer but it will certainly make some people in the industry richer $$$. Meanwhile Nort...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:13 am
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Northern operator as a first job?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3770
Re: Northern operator as a first job?
I currently am with North Star air and working on the ground. I can definitely say it’s great here with good work ethics and working conditions subject to you being able to survive the cold depending on which base you get. The ground to flight takes about a year subject to movement but no FOs being...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Which Beaver is Better
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3931
Re: Which Beaver is Better
Commercial ops definitely prefer Straight floats. The OMNR does run the turbo beaver on wipline 6000 amphibs but it absolutely destroys the useful load. A piston beaver on a set of tight edo 4930’s is a sweet set-up.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: Covid
- Topic: Post vaccination drama, deaths and Jerry...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6400
Re: Post vaccination drama, deaths and Jerry...
Remember all the "hospitals are over flowing!" rhetoric as a reason you need to comply with all the nonsense policies and recommendations. Yet apparently hospitals are worse off today than any time including that little blip of hysterical history. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-emer...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:50 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Air Tindi Twin Otter Down
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27515
Re: Air Tindi Twin Otter Down
They do ramp/flight line these days?? Yeah, they still do. You start off on the ramp or as an FA on the Dash, then they'll put you on the twin otter or king air after a few months. Except once you're typed you'll still be working the ground part-time. Had a couple FOs I flew with that came from the...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Can a training bond that was NOT signed be enforced?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10176
Re: Can a training bond that was NOT signed be enforced?
You didn’t sign the contract so you are not legally bond by the conditions of said contract. Tell them to pound sand. Also who is the operator??
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 2:16 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Perimeter Runway Excursion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3076
Re: Perimeter Runway Excursion
You’re all over the place, you have a “Crashed on takeoff” thread, a “runway excursion” thread, then you create this thread which is clearly a crashed on landing accident and title it runway excursion which is akin to the “hard landing” of the AC YHZ accident. It’s misleading and downplays what rea...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 6:18 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Eagle Air
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6090
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:58 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Training bond Write off with CRA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1035
Re: Training bond Write off with CRA
Or hear me out, grow a set and tell your employer to shove their training bond right up their @$$!!!
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 2:46 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Quick question on how to snag
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3050
Re: Quick question on how to snag
Since you did not answer my question on the last thread I will ask here as well. When you lost power did you try applying carb heat?
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: I had partial engine failure and I need advice regarding paperwork
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2675
Re: I had partial engine failure and I need advice regarding paperwork
Did you apply carb heat??
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Companies that will buy out bonds
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2788
Re: Companies that will buy out bonds
It's batshit crazy that companies still require training bonds with the current state of the industry.
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:35 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Self-flying plane in one-year deal with feds
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2937
Re: Self-flying plane in one-year deal with feds
The whole operation looks like a scam to me.
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Cargo Airline Ribbit Signs $1.3M Contract With Transport Canada To Test Autonomous Flights Across Northern Canada
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1147
Re: Cargo Airline Ribbit Signs $1.3M Contract With Transport Canada To Test Autonomous Flights Across Northern Canada
The company website has many fancy graphics but is very vague and gives very few details on the project. Looks like they are currently testing on a Challenger ultralight, so a 400 lbs payload lol. I would hope it is just the testing platform and they plan to add bigger aircraft in the future. The wh...
- Mon May 01, 2023 5:41 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Air Borealis
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6585
Re: Air Borealis
Anybody know the salary for Captain and First Officer??
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 6:48 am
- Forum: Covid
- Topic: Still not asking the right questions
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3945
Re: Still not asking the right questions
You have returned to what you call a normal life because you have obeyed, and you live in this reality imposed on you by those who have taken advantage of this crisis to consolidate their power and increase their wealth. If everyone had had the courage to say no, and to give people the freedom to c...
- Sun Mar 26, 2023 3:54 pm
- Forum: Employment Forum
- Topic: Jazz interview at 700 hours!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3367
Re: Jazz interview at 700 hours!
[/quote] Touche. Well there you have it! Was that recently? I feel like a lot of people are staying at Jazz out of fear of being blacklisted. Just another psychological mind game managements play on us. I need to replace my hat anyway :lol: [/quote] I call bullshit on this so called "blacklist." Wit...