If we can’t trust the fine folks at the Western Standard, who can we trust?

pelmet wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 8:03 pm Folks.........

No. P means well. I’ll just say he doesn’t deserve ridicule and leave it at that, you guys are smart enough.

The most common response I get in social situations when asked about what I do is “I could have been a pilot but…”. don’t be that person. Finish what you started, you’ll never regret that much. If something better calls to you, no problem, but don’t give a reason to look back and wonder “what if”. Y...

They weren’t given access to their bags for two days, I understand being a bit miffed about that.

Here is very clear video from an aircraft holding short…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinter ... gWcL04fYbj

Inverted2 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 7:58 am A lot of the woke is getting rolled back. No more gender bender passports with an x either.

Finally, we’ll be able to ____ again. What did you lose to it exactly? I’m genuinely curious as it never impacted me, so I never felt threatened the way some do

This guy is going through some stuff.

Hopefully, whatever you’re going through in your life that causes you to make these posts, improves. Until then, may your catch be plentiful and your mind fulfilled.

Customer service has been phenomenal with FSI, only passable with CAE. We’re also finding quality instructors seem to stick around more at FSI whereas CAE has let some great people leave by not looking after them properly.

When my lumpsump broke, momma woke up floating around the basement on her air mattress and her favourite slippers were destroyed.

Lump sum. Communicate like you deserve a raise

PittBoss wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 12:59 am What is everyone doing with lumpsump payments?

Where would you like to be based? Great response from throwawaycorporate, solid insight. My warning is beware the management companies.

rigpiggy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:41 am As Bobeth once told me first you go for the adventure, then you go for the money, then your there because you don't fit in any place else. RIP Bob

Reading that gives me some happy emotions and some sad ones. What a guy.

Air Canada to public:

“We want our pilots to live like JAL CEOs”

I was suspecting that. Jetstream turbulence is not really encountered much around there(try Japan). Wonder if they were not paying attention to the radar. Same question about an AC turbulence encounter near Hawaii a couple of years ago. You are dealing with a phenomena called "Dry Tops" where the m...

It's certainly been a rough week for runway incursions and as much as the topic of pilot situational awareness always bears repeating, these latest incidents reinforce that ATC is just as capable of losing the big picture. They are working in an imperfect system and are just as prone to human error ...

So schedule is 2 days call out at the least. Usually much more? Correct. But if something big happened they’d want that aircraft’s engines lit asap. Right on. Interesting! Does that mean you can't have a beer like ever? or take an afternoon trip like a 4 hour drive away or something? Just in case t...

Likewise, I’m doing 200-250 hours per year for the owner. Shortest callout has been 2 days, but very rare. I typically know my trips months ahead of time. I take vacation around the aircraft or fly the ‘missus’ out if I am somewhere fun. If I have something special going on they’ll get a decent con...

Likewise, I’m doing 200-250 hours per year for the owner. Shortest callout has been 2 days, but very rare. I typically know my trips months ahead of time. I take vacation around the aircraft or fly the ‘missus’ out if I am somewhere fun. If I have something special going on they’ll get a decent cont...

Tough decision, indeed. Perhaps there were better outcomes here, tough to say without complete hindsight 20/20 armchair flying, but there certainly were far worse scenarios if that engine had stopped entirely at unfavourable point in the dark. We’ll chalk up zero souls lost a win in this tough scena...

Here's a great one for laughs. "BC Yukon air" on pcc is asking for 2000hrs to fly a Piper cub ! :lol: :lol: Hope to god they were late on april fools First off, it’s a Beaver/Super Cub position. Next, did you read the part about it being for BC Parks and Forestry personnel? Also, how about that loc...

April 17th

https://www.wingsmagazine.com/westjet-e ... ot-strike/

Advised ATC that he would not be communicating further with them, 5000ft per minute descent in a 172, apparent suicide. Yet another case of enacting a permanent solution to a temporary feeling. I assure you, it’s not worth it, whatever you’re going through, reach out to someone, spread that load, yo...

I’m not sure what I was expecting when I saw that headline, but the condition of that A350 sure caught me off guard. Incredible work by the JAL flight attendants to get everyone out quickly without losing anyone; true professionals.

:o thank My last corporate gig, we all started at 4 weeks Likewise for me. Many operations (not all) that are not affiliated with management companies tend to treat their pilots a little more humanely. A management company without strong influence from an aircraft owner will treat you like a disposa...

My last corporate gig, we all started at 4 weeks Likewise for me. Many operations (not all) that are not affiliated with management companies tend to treat their pilots a little more humanely. A management company without strong influence from an aircraft owner will treat you like a disposable, inc...