As a long time pilot and now an employer, I am embarassed to publish a salary, even though it is as high as or higher than most in the sector. It is all I can handle in the current economic situation. We do tack on extras. People have to remember there are a lot of hidden costs such as CPP, EI, Comp...

the indusrty is getting better all of the time, as these assholes leave. Touble is, they usually take innocent people with them

Speaking of Skylink, whatever happened to that pillar of the aviation community, Rafael Zur? But I found a referece in a different thread.
The Sonic outfit just reeked of his kind of operation. Up where I live it is a little harder to get info on the southside operations

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Both pilots and companies are members of said association, companies must hire from pilot pool. And in a perfect world our tarrif be closely monitored by a the CTC and no more rate cutting by the gypos. Sigh.................................

A mandatory association would be the best solution in my opinion. In this way standard wages hours etc could be negotiated across the country. More importantly it will keep the rogues (on both sides of the counter) in check

Alright west coast pilots... Im heading to the coast on sunday and Ive forwarded my resume to the usual suspects.. West coast Air , tofino, harbour, Baxter , seair,. I have the grand Total of 700 hrs 600PIC on floats 180 time mostly... and it was solid bush time up north of Atlin... so I did see a ...

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Hey Leftcoaster, the reason why some of us "old Guys" haven't had accidents after over 3 or 4 decades in the industry, is mainly because we don't cross the line and do something stupid. Flying is not inherently dangerous......inheriting dangerous flying is. Poor Corporate Culture, lack of mentoring ...

The trouble with having rates which were the same as the operator next door could be considered to be price fixing. Your tarrif needs to be published, there are ways to bypass this in what is called a "confidential contract" this is where alot of the low rates come ito play with the courier companie...

You are right it is about unions. Just tryin to figure out if we crossed paths. We were all CBRT&GW in BL at the time. Seems to me Airwest was Teamsters, and TPA was Operating Engineers. What a mess, the only ones with any clout were Teamsters, and that was because you would disappear if you crossed...

Oh yeah one more thing, I did have some brown on my pants, usually after a particularly harrowing north coast sched in the winter

Widow: Back in the old days there things such as protected bases, routes etc. If you wanted to start a new company, there were many hoops, hearings and other things to get through. Took quite ahile to acomplishNow any swinging dick with a bit of money who wants to can open and operate an air charter...

Ha! you weren't competion, you were the "other company"
U there until the bitter end? Gulf-Island Air

I see u been there done that in Kitkatla:-) yep gotta love those westerlies . Things are alot quieter up here now than the 70's but the weather is just as nasty. Nice thing is we are older and the public is much more educated in safety. No more of the " In that case if the sched is cancelled I will ...

TC mandate is to let operators do business. If operators choose not to comply, with regulations, then TC are supossed to come down hard. I hope for a change TC do. We also need to return to the old system of fare stuctures with the CTC to get the gypos out of the business. Then rates would be more c...

K, I have got to have my say here. After spending 4 years in the bush in the mid 70’s, I came back to the coast, to a union job. It was pilot heaven. Shirt and tie job. Regular days off. Dock boys loading, dock boys even warming up our planes for us. Times were good, operators were making money. But...

I just joined this board to post a job ad yesterday. I have read through a number of posts from the younglings looking for that elusive first or second job. I remember how it was for me back in the early 70's going throught the same thing, the eager anticipation, excitment, wondering where I was goi...