To our brothers and sisters at Air Canada: You now have the clear opportunity to send a message to the profiteering corporate d!psh!ts in management who constantly laud themselves with unrealistic and despicable wage and bonus plans off of your backs. Listen to your MEC representation and leaders. A...

Landed there many times in rain, snow, uphill, downhill whatever... Never been an issue and never once questioned the safety of that place. Funny how the crew claims they landed in exactly the first 3rd with 70 knots of airspeed. 2000 odd feet they could have coasted to a stop with the headwind comp...

"Training bonds" 🤣🤣🤣.... 1) Don't sign one. Companies that still subscribe to this form of so-called pilot retention are companies that you need to avoid. 2) For those of you dumb enough to have signed one, not to worry, they're not legally enforceable for various reasons. Just quit and move on to a...

I guess Onex and the Austrian don't want an airline. This is not going to end well for them.

It's a staff written article by the state sponsored media outlet known as the CBC. It's a double negative attempt at shifting blame away from Justin Trudeau when the JT has nothing to do with the current job market for drivers. This current situation has been brewing for the last 15+ years fueled by...

Just curious, was that flight the return leg of the 2leg red-eye that Flair sometimes operate ? Sure was Ouuuch!!!!! This is with one crew? If that's the case fatigue is definitely the primary issue. Nice to know that Flair operates their business model like a 703 would. Folks enjoy your $69 ticket...

Meanwhile the Swedes want to sell us Gripen's tomorrow and will go as far as open sourcing them and letting us build as much as we want of them. Absolutely none of this is in the article, so I'm curious what part of your anatomy you pulled it from. What leads you to think the process wouldn't be in...

rookiepilot wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:26 pm
My last post criticized these guys.

The paid thought police trolls complained.

Disappeared, rather quickly.

Guess thats not allowed.

I'm merely quoting published fact against fact.

If that's offensive to either the thought police or the powers that be I can't help either.

https://www.wingsmagazine.com/swedish-jet-maker-complains-about-ottawa-negotiating-to-buy-f-35/ So.... The F35 has been announced as the winner BUT.... We haven't figured out when we will get them, how much they will cost, what economic benefits Canada will enjoy, talks with the US DoD have been "op...

Does everyone remember what happened the last time that Sunwing hired pilots from eastern Europe?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nationalpo ... ba1c0/amp/

This sounds like the same old Sunwing song and dance where they are abusing the Temporary Foreign Workers Act because they can't find "qualified" pilots i.e. guys that they don't have to pay a 737 type rating for? Pathetic. The fact that they are offering 75% above hard fought pay agreements is simp...

Try a scoop of All Bran buds every morning. Mine were gone within a week.

Good to see that there are still at least two constants in the aviation universe.... The White's and their delusions of what acceptable pay is and UNIFOR's seemingly drunken stuper approach to advocating for their members.

I believe that most imported from Sky caps at Jazz would go willingly, especially with a better package being offered by Porter and fly brand new birds instead of the old clapped out original ACA EMB's. If that sparks a long overdue bidding war for pilots in this country, so be it. They will be the ...

Absolutely common practise. The PPC sim ride is effectively an IFR validation, don't waste your money otherwise.

There's not a lot out there on these guys which is probably a good thing. From my sources I'm told they are a good place to gain some good experience. Lots of money flowing through and their equipment is clean and well maintained. It would be nice to work a 703 based from a major city and still get ...

They don't have an experience requirement so much as an image or "type" that they hire as entry level folks these days.... I.E. if you look like a fresh-faced androgenously multi-racial non-binary human who still has mother's milk on their face..... You're in!

These days of employers demanding what they want are over. Pony up or get out. That said, downtown Toronto is full of morons. I'm sure there is a weak minded, failed out regional pilot who still has a good PPC on a PC12 that will sign up to this. You couldn't pay me enough to drive into downtown Tor...

I'm going to start saying this alot.... The race to the bottom is over. Staff shortages are everywhere soup to nuts especially in aviation because noone wants the high costs to get in (flight training) and/or the crap pay sanctioned by execs and eaten up by all involved. $400 round trip fares from Y...

For anyone wondering why Morningstar is posting quite a bit lately, here is why. Ever since the contract was settled by the arbitrator, the relationship between the company and its pilots has taken quite a turn for the worst. While pay is considerably better than it was before, and better than most...

Depends….. Do you work for PIVOT? :smt040 Goes without saying those guys are all tagged and bagged for life. Remember when any negative commentary about those guys AKA Georgian 2.0 used to get deleted because they were AvCanada's largest source of advertising revenue? It's so much fun now that we c...

The Aerocourse question and answer book is what you need. Same style of questions and subject materials that you will see on the actual exams to a tee. Familiarize yourself with the background material from the questions and the exams will be a breeze for you.

There was a guy at the flight school back in the day who insisted on doing everything in the solitary 172s model that was available. Net result - he paid more than I did and flew less, I was done sooner and got the jump on my career start which to this day has paid dividends. Not once have I ever ha...

So basically Steve Jones knowingly violated foreign ownership rules to get more birds in the air courtesy of his loan sharking buddies down in Miami. Nice. Now that it's backfiring, like a bleeding heart baby he's whining giving the age old ACA and WJ are ripping people off song and dance. Nah, nope...

Many involved were loathed members of the former Georgian forever tainted and unemployable elsewhere because of their actions at said company. I'm not a religious individual but the old adage "God doesn't punish with a stick" applies wholeheartedly. I also second the motion that this wasn't the firs...