Two things that are in the back of the hiring boards mind are a candidate’s ability to get through the initial course, and later on, their ability to get through a command upgrade. As a result, in no particular order: Multi crew PIC time. Transport category 705 time especially in larger aircraft. Un...

If an oil pressure gauge reads close to zero, decrease the prop rpm acfew hundred and see if the propellor governs with power changes. If it does, the engine has oil
pressure.

ALPA are a very strike averse union-the last ALPA pilot strike was Spirit in 2011. I don’t see them supporting us in a legal strike, much less an illegal one. Especially if thete is a risk risk of damage awards depleting their bank accounts

AC has started repatriating all their stranded overseas pilots, thereby greatly complicating the eventual re-start. Looks like they may be digging in for the medium to long haul.

The LEC recall resolutions for the ACA MEC chair were driven by the pilots that thought ACA could have done better by going on strike and also figured that they would have been immune to any government/CIRB orders to return to work if they had walked. Now that it’s obvious that striking isn’t reall...

ThePoors….
Not bad, 30 min response time.
Uncommonly, with the exception of the first and last sentence, I actually agree with everything you just posted.

I hope the new AC ALPA reps are paying very close attention to how this is playing out. Peak leverage is not after the airline starts unwinding the operation, and AC BOD and execs are incredibly well connected politically. All lessons we learned before, but that are often overlooked more recently. W...

They were doing so well until this…
https://cupe.ca/air-canada-reinforcing- ... them-do-it

They were doing so well until this…
https://cupe.ca/air-canada-reinforcing- ... them-do-it

By definition, if you earn money doing something, you are doing it professionally. You can be a professional dog shit collector. By contrast, a profession is generally considered to be self governing. Doctors, engineers, nurses, lawyers, etc. Both pilots and flight attendants are not. We don’t answe...

I was halfway between Toronto and LaGuardia when we went on strike in ‘98. Upon arrival at LGA an hour later, our crew transport and hotel had been cancelled. By noon the next day all of our jumpseat privledges on other airlines had also been revoked. And the company was able to organize all of the ...

Setting 0 in the MCP altitude will result in the autothrust system taking the engines to idle, but not shutting them down. Additionally, the thrust levers can easily be pushed up manually if that were to happen. The RAT deployment and apu autostart wouldn’t have occurred if the engines just rolled b...

Pdw…transport category performance data has very conservative assumptions built in to cater for environmental changes, pilot techniques, etc. For example the performance is calculated with 50% of the reported headwind, 150% of the tailwind, seversl seconds are allowed for pilot reaction time, brakes...

I just edited my previous post. I am a “Triple” driver and while APU to Pack take offs are possible, they are almost never performed. The packs on the 787 are electrically driven and never run from the apu. So the open apu door points to something really ugly.😒 Could it be a case of the door simply...

I just edited my previous post. I am a “Triple” driver and while APU to Pack take offs are possible, they are almost never performed.

The packs on the 787 are electrically driven and never run from the apu. So the open apu door points to something really ugly.

Pictures of the wreckage show the APU air inlet open. The APU autostarts if both engines fail in flight.

I am not going to speculate until I have seen PDW’s analysis. Lol

I didn’t consider any “seniority solution” for the affected Jazz pilots because non of them “benefit” all four parties! “Over the past several months, as part of our work in processing our unfair labour practice complaint (ULP), the JAZ MEC developed a framework for resolution. That framework was c...

The real sportingrifle has walked 2 pilot picket lines in an attempt to better the proffession How many have you walked?

That actually makes a lot of sense.

Retro pay is customarily, in fact almost always, negotiated in new contracts. But it is not legally required. In fact, while the company actually calculated it as retroactive pay, they very carefully described it as a ratification bonus so as not to legally entrench it if we didn’t ratify the contra...

My ratification bonus was more than triple the largest profit sharing bonus I ever received.

Instead of trying to argue about how many hours is a reasonable requirement, why don’t we back up and ask what skill set an ATPL candidate should have? That will in turn give us a pretty good rough idea of the hours and type of experience required. As a TRI on a very large aircraft, I have seen a se...

There are companies that do acreally good job with low time pilots in transport category aircraft. Lufthansa is a great example. But they spend well north of a million dollars on each cadet, just like the military do. As an example of the differeces, they do circuits in Citation jets and upset train...

Jazz just posted their 2025 openings. Been waiting since last May for a call. I'm now close to 1000 TT. Should I still consider this company as my next step or are they too overwhelmed by the amount of Captains vs FOs. I've heard some newly hired FOs barely flew 150h in 2024. Thanks in advance, CAD...