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- Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Airline pilots: How much do you use your "travel benefits"?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5320
Re: Airline pilots: How much do you use your "travel benefits"?
Not an airline pilot (yet) but I have been working for an airline for 15 years. Coincidentally, I've also been given an FA jump seat on ZRH-YUL with Swiss and have flown with them a few times. Agreed that they're extremely nice to pass travellers. I used my passes quite a bit in the first few years ...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:36 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Ifr Bootcamp type training.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 696
Re: Ifr Bootcamp type training.
You could check with Lachute Aviation. They do multi IFR, although you'd have to talk to them to see about scheduling availability and how they feel about using your plane. They're located just across the Ottawa River from Ontario, on the Quebec side just below Montreal airspace. English/French isn'...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Number of commercial pilot licences issued in Canada has collapsed since 2019
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3121
Re: Number of commercial pilot licences issued in Canada has collapsed since 2019
We work in a free market. People are able to choose any career they want. Why aren't they choosing aviation? Younger people are in need of far more instant gratification. the financial reward of becoming a pilot is just too far down the road and quite frankly, within Canada, too small of a reward f...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 11:13 pm
- Forum: Jazz Aviation LP - Air Canada Express
- Topic: Flight Attendant Interview Questions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2191
Re: Flight Attendant Interview Questions
It's a very good point about the pay. Lots of new FAs are very disappointed after training when they discover that the posted hourly wage really doesn't correspond to the hourly wages of a 40 hour/week job. Given that you do about 85 credit hours per month, expect around $26k/year to start, assuming...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 12:36 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Online Ground School
- Replies: 2
- Views: 421
Re: Online Ground School
It's approved, widely used, and I have yet to come across a flight school that had a problem with students doing their ground online. I did my PPL and currently CPL with it and found it to work well. There are hundreds of hours of available material, both in the form of Powerpoint presentations and ...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:42 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Don't get complacent
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1186
Re: Don't get complacent
That's a very good point and an interesting idea. I wonder if the reason TC doesn't require any training or practice on it is because there's a significant potential for incidents - expensive but non-fatal ones - while doing it. I've never done anything resembling a planned aborted takeoff at rotat...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 9:53 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Don't get complacent
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1186
Re: Don't get complacent
it's really really difficult to make that decision to abort a takeoff, not least because most student pilots aren't familiar with how to manage it and who wants to take that leap into the unknown? So, it's well worthwhile finding a decent length runway and conducting a few practice aborts at differ...
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:57 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Don't get complacent
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1186
Re: Don't get complacent
It was at about 40-45 kts that I realized I couldn't keep the plane from veering left. By then the situation was critical enough that I figured I was stuck either attempting to abort the takeoff and go into an expensive, and possibly painful, off-road excursion, or take the problem into the air. I ...
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 3:57 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Don't get complacent
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1186
Re: Don't get complacent
Sounds like it could have been a problem similar to this: https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/reference-centre/civil-aviation-safety-alerts/service-difficulty-advisories/cessna-150-172-175-steering-tube-pn-0543022-xx-service-difficulty-advisory While the decision to takeoff may not have been the best ...
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 10:41 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Don't get complacent
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1186
Re: Don't get complacent
How was the landing? Both the away and home landings were completely fine. The rudder problem was only present shortly before I started the takeoff roll up until shortly after rotation. I may have needed a bit more right rudder than normal during cruise to stay coordinated on the leg home, but that...
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 10:08 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Don't get complacent
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1186
Don't get complacent
My last CPL training flight I learned how quickly and easily a routine situation could turn critical. Flew my rental 152 on a cross country and landed at a rural paved aerodrome that I'd landed at before. The flight and landing went normally and I shut down for about 10 minutes to stretch my legs be...
- Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:57 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3041
Re: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
There seems to be lots of rhetoric posted here by people who don't actually know how FAs are paid. Just for all those who don't actually work in aviation and don't understand how being paid hourly block time as cabin crew works: for CRA purposes, tax documents from the employer show half the posted ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3041
Re: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
For some demographics being a flight attendant OR BEING A PILOT is also still a source of prestige. And now the real truth finally comes out. Fixed your post. As long as everyone ranks the cool factor and bars as super important to their image and bragging rights to the family, yeah these positions...
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3041
Re: How are flight attendants allowed to make less than Min Wage?
Other major Canadian airlines' starting FA rates are very similar to what's presented here. Like pilot wages, lower starting "tiers" being introduced and inflation over the years are what's responsible for the lost purchasing power of the job's wages. What's worse, the per hour pay is usually presen...
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 1:57 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Canadian Pilots Are Too Afraid to Stand Up for Better Pay
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4420
Re: Canadian Pilots Are Too Afraid to Stand Up for Better Pay
I join those who assert that Canadians pickling themselves in debt is a reason why airlines (and other companies) can get away with jerking workers around the way they do. A $1.2 million house for a junior pilot and FA in Montreal? You go to work on average 5-6 times a month; buy a house off the isl...
- Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:46 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Why do AC Pilots ALWAYS take concessions?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6199
Re: Why do AC Pilots ALWAYS take concessions?
It would be interesting to see how other unions at AC have done since 2003 vs ACPA. And how much the pay gap has decreased between Transat/Westjet pilots and AC pilots since 2003. If you mean other unions of other professions within AC, I'd say that they've done similarly or worse than the pilot gr...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:22 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Transferring to flight operations department
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2423
Re: Transferring to flight operations department
I inquired about this same thing with management prepandemic and discovered that the company has no interest in advancing employees' pilot goals. Just apply on the portal when you meet the requirements like everyone else. Speaking to pilots I learned that there are apparently a couple of stories of ...
- Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:29 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: What to expect as a new Fo.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 13357
Re: What to expect as a new Fo.
Anyone share what life is like as a new FO who is commuting. Would I ever be home? How many days off do you get? As it is right now I don’t know how commuters make it work. Everything is either 1. Oversold 2. Hours late or 3. Canceled. There's lots of room most days because everyone misses their co...
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:35 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Demand for flight instructors
- Replies: 58
- Views: 7809
Re: Demand for flight instructors
Just one data point, but asking at my local FTU about two weeks ago I was told that there was still a glut of laid off pilots which meant that there was little movement of instructors. The guy I spoke to was a fresh Class 4 who counted himself lucky to get a job at the school he got his rating from....
- Wed May 25, 2022 6:44 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Inflation adjustment to your wage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1218
Re: Inflation adjustment to your wage
I know of at least one airline where the cabin crew collective agreement has language which allows for an adjustment of salary if CPI goes up out of proportion with the wage scale, which is set at 2% increase annually. The union and management are currently in talks to see how that's going to play o...