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by Glasnost
Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:30 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Maintenance in Corporate
Replies: 5
Views: 1390

Re: Maintenance in Corporate

I wouldn’t call Chartright corporate. They fly corporate clients in corporate jets, but more of an airline or charter operation whith managed planes thrown in mix. More work, less pay, less bennies. I haven’t been involved for a while as I’m out of the industry but did some time in that neck of the ...
by Glasnost
Mon Jun 08, 2020 3:03 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: RCAF Cyclone Down
Replies: 115
Views: 17195

Re: RCAF Cyclone Down

Essentially a descending, high g turn. The overloading of the rotor causes the servos to become unresponsive until the situation is corrected. If you don't have the altitude to ease off and come back out of it then you will crash. Says who? The phenomenon is known as servo transparency. As I said i...
by Glasnost
Mon Jun 08, 2020 3:02 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: RCAF Cyclone Down
Replies: 115
Views: 17195

Re: RCAF Cyclone Down

AuxBatOn wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 2:48 pm So, this is speculation. Got it.
That’s why all of us are here. Get off your high horse.
by Glasnost
Mon Jun 08, 2020 2:58 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: How many pilots laid off?
Replies: 10
Views: 3021

Re: How many pilots laid off?

At least 50.
by Glasnost
Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:58 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Fatal Crash - Gabriola Island - Dec 10, 2019
Replies: 123
Views: 22907

Re: Fatal Crash - Gabriola Island - Dec 10, 2019

Sounds like a a partial panel situation with the low weather being a factor. A graveyard spiral is a spiraling dive that can happen when you become disoriented, and when you have little or no visual reference to the horizon. Unfortunately, lots of graveyard spirals end with the airplane impacting t...
by Glasnost
Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:51 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Top Paid AMEs
Replies: 71
Views: 30345

Re: Top Paid AMEs

Unless you’re running a contracting company that’s paying other contractors out of that sum of money after you bill the company, Im calling BS on a contractor making a quarter mill a year.
by Glasnost
Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:00 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Air Transat runway incursion
Replies: 14
Views: 3143

Re: Air Transat runway incursion

HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!! :lol:

Trust it to pilots to miss a four line thick hold short line, wag wigs, runway signs, and big red runway marks on the taxiway !!

Maybe pilots need to go through an AVOP course or grade 3 to learn how to read. ??
by Glasnost
Thu Jun 20, 2019 9:29 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Rotax UL912 -run engine past TBO?
Replies: 3
Views: 1962

Re: Rotax UL912 -run engine past TBO?

If it were an O-200 with good compression and oil consumption I wouldn’t even think about it.

But one of those snowmobile engines with a coolant system and a gear box and a dog clutch? No way. There’s just too much to go wrong.
by Glasnost
Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:48 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Back-Up Career
Replies: 20
Views: 4293

Re: Back-Up Career

Trades are the way to go.

I was an AME for almost 20 years. So nice to finally be out of the bullsh** world of aviation.
by Glasnost
Sun Oct 14, 2018 9:15 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Top Paid AMEs
Replies: 71
Views: 30345

Re: Top Paid AMEs

The one who brags about his T4 but not the amount of out of base, overtime, or BS it took to get it.
by Glasnost
Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:18 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: 20th Century power
Replies: 26
Views: 4962

Re: 20th Century power

Subarus don’t last because they are reliable. They last because they have high retained value because they aren’t easy to finance and are almost never leased vehicles. A blown head gasket will sent a domestic to the scrapyard while it’s almost a right of passage for a Subaru. You don’t want one of t...
by Glasnost
Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:01 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Open Defects entered at Annual Inspection
Replies: 53
Views: 8084

Re: Open Defects entered at Annual Inspection

I snag whatever I see is unairworthy. If you want to go flying with it, fill your boots. At least I used to. I quit aviation because of cheapskate owners and cheapskate pilots. People who don’t even blink at $150 rates for their truck or boat no owner assistance whatsoever are going to argue about r...
by Glasnost
Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:21 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Fort Langley Air - Tyax Resort
Replies: 14
Views: 4839

Re: Fort Langley Air - Tyax Resort

That’s not what happened. It was a steep turn gone bad, but for none of those reasons. You can read about it in the report.
by Glasnost
Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:17 pm
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: University degree is useful for AME job?
Replies: 4
Views: 1579

Re: University degree is useful for AME job?

If you have an engineering degree, you’re probably further behind than those who don’t know anything about engineering. Pretty much nothing is applicable.
by Glasnost
Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:13 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: The sweet smell of desperation...
Replies: 9
Views: 4751

Re: The sweet smell of desperation...

Don’t really want to become un anonymous on here, but I swapped over to wind energy. Lots of projects going up, lots of companies hiring. Skill set is perfect and advancement is fast.
by Glasnost
Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:14 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: The sweet smell of desperation...
Replies: 9
Views: 4751

Re: The sweet smell of desperation...

Encore offered me a $27/hr premium wage in YYC because I’d been M2 licensed for ten years. I politely declined. Now I’m making six figures regular time for the first time in my life outside of aviation. 6% company matching, full benefits package, company truck, 4 weeks vacation to start, no aviation...
by Glasnost
Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:50 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Air Inuit is looking for talent! – ***New salary scale***
Replies: 3
Views: 3075

Re: Air Inuit is looking for talent! – ***New salary scale***

What they need to come up with is a dollars to bullshit ratio for AME compensation. What’s on you T4 doesn’t tell you any stories of endless overtime and away from base, babysitting a large number of useless apprentices, having to suck managements dick, working for a company that has unsafe practice...
by Glasnost
Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:48 am
Forum: Employment Forum
Topic: Stickies aren’t going to get you employees.
Replies: 24
Views: 4264

Stickies aren’t going to get you employees.

First page of Job Ads almost all stickies from an industry getting more and more desperate by the day.

It’s not 9/11 anymore. Prices have gone up up up. Boomers are retiring.

There’s a very simple solution to your problems.


F**K YOU!! PAY ME!!
by Glasnost
Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:17 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Aircraft maintenance rates.
Replies: 23
Views: 8681

Re: Aircraft maintenance rates.

Not high enough. Nobody should be charging less than $100/hr especially considering insurance costs risk overhead and regulatory requirements. Those who don't want to pay, fuc em. If every AME had the balls to do that, we'd have a good industry. Go ask your RV or Marine mechanic for an $80/hr shop r...
by Glasnost
Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:15 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Another Blow to Canadian aviation!
Replies: 23
Views: 6468

Re: Another Blow to Canadian aviation!

I dunno if I'd trust my money with a trust fund kid who's come up bankrupt more times than a last place Wheel of Fortune contestant.

http://www.businessinsider.com/debt-cei ... sis-2017-8

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