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by rookiepilot
Sat Jun 14, 2025 8:12 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 74
Views: 20060

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

Naw, not on X got outta there few yrs back, ditto on FB. As for your book…. no doubt well put together but I will take a pass. I am a boomer(that’s my lot in life), with 75 yrs of existence or 75 turns around the sun whichever way you want to spin it - inspiration doesn’t do anything for me. Shit r...
by rookiepilot
Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:30 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 74
Views: 20060

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I’m not a boomer — younger than that — not once In any job I ever did I go on social media to complain about my pay or working conditions. Let alone do anonymously. :roll: I dealt with it directly with my employer, changed jobs, or cut my expenses. Sometimes all three at once. But change takes cour...
by rookiepilot
Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:56 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Seeking advice on buying a Cessna 172
Replies: 18
Views: 1712

Re: Seeking advice on buying a Cessna 172

Piece of crap. Unairworthy.

I’d be ticked paying for a prebuy on that without that stuff explicitly disclosed in advance.
by rookiepilot
Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:21 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 74
Views: 20060

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I’m not a boomer — younger than that — not once In any job I ever did I go on social media to complain about my pay or working conditions. Let alone do anonymously. :roll: I dealt with it directly with my employer, changed jobs, or cut my expenses. Sometimes all three at once. But change takes coura...
by rookiepilot
Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:21 pm
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 74
Views: 20060

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I’m a junior on flat pay. I I have no life outside of work as I literally can’t afford to do jackshit. I literally am wondering how I’m gonna feed myself on pairings coming up and worry about gas to get to and from the airport. I pick up VO and seat fills on as many days off as I can. Do I want to ...
by rookiepilot
Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:31 am
Forum: Air Canada
Topic: 5 pilots on 737 laid off
Replies: 74
Views: 20060

Re: 5 pilots on 737 laid off

I’m a junior on flat pay. I I have no life outside of work as I literally can’t afford to do jackshit. I literally am wondering how I’m gonna feed myself on pairings coming up and worry about gas to get to and from the airport. I pick up VO and seat fills on as many days off as I can. Do I want to ...
by rookiepilot
Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:44 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Transat got a sweet deal
Replies: 28
Views: 3840

Re: Transat got a sweet deal

Hopefully looking forward to a long and stable career here. It's a great place to work. So you make poorly thought out intellectual arguments….purely cause you work there. I should have picked that up faster. Home-gamer. Nothing more. It’s your team. Defend to the death. Lotta intellectual depth di...
by rookiepilot
Wed Jun 11, 2025 5:10 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Transat got a sweet deal
Replies: 28
Views: 3840

Re: Transat got a sweet deal

Tldr; Rookie went off casting aspersions yet again, no point in replying. Only Unionized Airline Employees are qualified to respond to any and all AvCanada threads, even when the subject matter is way out of their lane. Just rename it “Airline Workers of the World Unite” site. Cause thats the exten...
by rookiepilot
Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:40 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Transat got a sweet deal
Replies: 28
Views: 3840

Re: Transat got a sweet deal

Do you mean the 900,000 CEBA loans given to small and medium businesses? Of which so far over $12B of the $40B has been forgiven, with more to come? The bigger question is why I bother responding to people who troll my posts with false equivalence. AI Overview In 2023, small businesses in Canada em...
by rookiepilot
Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:23 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Transat got a sweet deal
Replies: 28
Views: 3840

Re: Transat got a sweet deal

Do you mean the 900,000 CEBA loans given to small and medium businesses? Of which so far over $12B of the $40B has been forgiven, with more to come? The bigger question is why I bother responding to people who troll my posts with false equivalence. AI Overview In 2023, small businesses in Canada em...
by rookiepilot
Wed Jun 11, 2025 10:28 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Transat got a sweet deal
Replies: 28
Views: 3840

Re: Transat got a sweet deal

Before the shutdown order TRZ had zero debt and over $500m in liquid cash. Plus the $18 per share takeover bid from AC. It was the govt's own disproportionately long and detrimental response to Covid that dug this huge hole in the first place. As a note, that $1.5b figure includes lease liabilities...
by rookiepilot
Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:15 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Just Brutal...SFO
Replies: 2
Views: 1077

Just Brutal...SFO

by rookiepilot
Wed May 21, 2025 4:24 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: When Alberta separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?
Replies: 107
Views: 25437

Re: When Albert separate, will it keep Canadian licensing or go the FAA route?

Look at Doug Ford as an example? He's medaling in municipal politics instead of focusing on the province, he has the biggest and most expensive cabinet in Ontario's history but campaigned on small government. He's banning things left and right, cancelling elections out of spite. I see you fell for ...
by rookiepilot
Sat May 17, 2025 5:55 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Should I even get the instructor rating?
Replies: 24
Views: 3608

Re: Should I even get the instructor rating?

I agree with the reality of your message, not necessarily your approach. I don’t care. I am blunt. Saves a lot of time. Does the OP or anyone else starting out think owners of these companies are going to kiss their behinds for passing their CPL rides? Some of these posts sure ring that way. Why ar...
by rookiepilot
Thu May 15, 2025 6:08 am
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Know your systems.
Replies: 5
Views: 1747

Re: Know your systems.

The Pilot was clearly in way over his head. Single Pilot IMC flying requires a high level of proficiency. That includes being able to fly without the use of automation. Too often automation is being used as a crutch - not as a tool. JMHO. As for circling approaches - they are prohibited at my Airli...
by rookiepilot
Tue May 06, 2025 5:51 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Has anyone else quit right before their CPL Test?
Replies: 35
Views: 4386

Re: Has anyone else quit right before their CPL Test?

flying as a career is such fun I'd do it for free. No you wouldn't. It's a career that deserves to be highly paid due to the difficulty and skills it requires. Anybody saying otherwise is trying to undermine pilots for corporate or personal reasons. Nope. you're misunderstanding me. I'm retired fro...
by rookiepilot
Tue May 06, 2025 1:51 pm
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: Know your systems.
Replies: 5
Views: 1747

Know your systems.

https://youtu.be/yYWThUkkmIk?si=kUjr7mF7lGmUqPfY Good video. Flying (light airplanes) SP in IMC turbulence is difficult and stressful, and unbelievably tiring. Hand flying for an extended period in embedded turbulence is not wise. A working AP and knowing how to use it in difficult conditions is a m...
by rookiepilot
Sat May 03, 2025 7:59 am
Forum: Flight Training
Topic: School charging you asking questions they can't answer?
Replies: 10
Views: 2260

Re: School charging you asking questions they can't answer?

You started the post, so if not what was the point of it? To rant and vent, and see if it's a common bad practice or not Because the OP deals with his problems the way most of society does. Instead of addressing the issue professionally, directly with management right up to the owner to seek a reso...
by rookiepilot
Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:42 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: New tax on flying
Replies: 23
Views: 4499

Re: New tax on flying

‘Bob’ wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:38 am And the only way to fix that carefully cherry-picked data is more taxes, more spending, and more direct government control.
Provide your own data to contradict the hard data points shown then, not vague unsubstantiated blather.
by rookiepilot
Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:37 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Ontario to Alberta via a 172
Replies: 24
Views: 3669

Re: Ontario to Alberta via a 172

BristolBay wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:52 am Making the trip next week from Ontario, Gore Bay, marathon, Dryden, Winnipeg. I will use ForeFlight and an area 660 for navigation and bring along a ZOLEO transmitter.
Nice. Be aware radio coverage is a bit spotty in places, (too low) or at least last time I did it.
by rookiepilot
Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:55 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: 25% Tariff on all non US made Autos.
Replies: 193
Views: 36399

Re: 25% Tariff on all non US made Autos.

PP will be different. “Trust me”. Carney doing exactly what PP said he was going to do.. with a solid track record to back it up (including saving Canada from the Great Recession and saving Britain from Brexit) isn’t good enough! And remember. It’s ok to be Mr Dressup if you’re Conservative. Save u...
by rookiepilot
Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:37 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: 25% Tariff on all non US made Autos.
Replies: 193
Views: 36399

Re: 25% Tariff on all non US made Autos.

Daniel Cooper wrote: Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:47 pm My country died a long time ago, what do I care if Carney's policies set the corpse on fire.
What’s your voting history?
by rookiepilot
Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:51 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: 25% Tariff on all non US made Autos.
Replies: 193
Views: 36399

Re: 25% Tariff on all non US made Autos.

I think when it comes to understanding why, the post below sums it up nicely with a bit of exaggeration.... Does it? Let's analyze it ? Do they? More than other countries? Any source for this? Which side of the political spectrum does *not* want high wages? If you're sick, you're sick. There's also...

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