Pilot in Waiting.

['97 Tercel]

"I would have loved to fly a DC3 along with Twin Otter, Beaver and some kind of King Air. If I would have gotten into aviation younger than I did I would have stayed flying in remote Canada a lot longer."

Northern Ontario is not remote Canada bud. And flying on gravel strips doesn't make you a bush pilot. Just saying.

[Black_Tusk]

"I would have loved to fly a DC3 along with Twin Otter, Beaver and some kind of King Air. If I would have gotten into aviation younger than I did I would have stayed flying in remote Canada a lot longer."

Northern Ontario is not remote Canada bud. And flying on gravel strips doesn't make you a bush pilot. Just saying.

Where did I say bush pilot? And yeah, Northern Ontario is pretty remote.

Why didn't you quote me properly, or was it just a jab hoping I wouldn't see?

[Cat Driver]

Well, remote is probably a description that will vary from person to person based on how far they have been from Toronto, but for sure Northern Ontario does have some places that can be described as deplorable such as Attawapiskat.

So flying in that area is a real experience that will give you a new outlook on just how your Government really works.

[Black_Tusk]

Well, remote is probably a description that will vary from person to person based on how far they have been from Toronto, but for sure Northern Ontario does have some places that can be described as deplorable such as Attawapiskat.

So flying in that area is a real experience that will give you a new outlook on just how your Government really works.

Isn't that the truth. While I haven't been to Attawapiskat, I've been to numerous other reserves as far as Fort Severn and it's quite shocking the conditions our government allows Canadians to live in. Now that can start the whole debate as to weather they should even be up there in the first place, and how money should be spent but that still doesn't mean it's OK for a 5 year old to be sleeping on a dirt floor of a one bedroom shack with 12 other people in nothing but shorts, and roam the streets alone during the day.

[Cat Driver]

It has been like that since I flew up there in the late fifties and it will not change in our lifetimes because those conditions support a massive government bureaucracy that costs us Billions a year to support the maggots that feed inside the bureaucracy.

The best way to get changes is to give every bureaucrat in the Department of Indian Affairs and all the Chiefs a choice.

Move to the reserve of your choice and stay there until the conditions are like the rest of Canada or you are out of work.

That would start the process.

[HansDietrich]

Well, remote is probably a description that will vary from person to person based on how far they have been from Toronto, but for sure Northern Ontario does have some places that can be described as deplorable such as Attawapiskat.

So flying in that area is a real experience that will give you a new outlook on just how your Government really works.

Amen brother!

[Cat Driver]

Canada is what South Africa used to be.

[Cheftony]

Any idea of how long people are waiting in Yellowknife these days ? With the current market I hope nobody's waiting 1 1/2 - 2 years anymore...

[flyingcanuck]

Any idea of how long people are waiting in Yellowknife these days ? With the current market I hope nobody's waiting 1 1/2 - 2 years anymore...

Sadly I know people who went up there and are still on the ramp 1.5 yrs later..

[Rightseatdriver]

Another ad for this pilot in waiting crap. Especially with this day and age, I truly hope that people aren't actually still wasting away their lives doing this. Also what's with So many requirements just to be a rampie for 2 years

[Cat Driver]

As a former owner of several aviation companies I would like to point out the owner of a company only owes a pilot for what that pilot can produce not what they think they can produce.

If you can make money for the company you will not have to worry to much about a job.

[rookiepilot]

If you can make money for the company you will not have to worry to much about a job.

Such a simple principle.

And so hard to understand.

[Cat Driver]

If they are not taught values and responsibility when they are young you get a society of people who are entitled and are taught that they are owed anything they want.

The concept of work for pay is beyond their comprehension.

I am sure happy I do not have to run a business in today's world of the entitled.

[rookiepilot]

If they are not taught values and responsibility when they are young you get a society of people who are entitled and are taught that they are owed anything they want.

The concept of work for pay is beyond their comprehension.

I am sure happy I do not have to run a business in today's world of the entitled.

I have a question I'd love an answer to:

How many who've progressed to their CPL, in the last 5 years or so, have done it without any help from the bank of Mom and Dad?

Those (very few I'd imagine) who answer in the affirmative.....kudos.

[Diadem]

If they are not taught values and responsibility when they are young you get a society of people who are entitled and are taught that they are owed anything they want.

The concept of work for pay is beyond their comprehension.

I am sure happy I do not have to run a business in today's world of the entitled.

What? This makes absolutely no sense. They're entitled, and think they deserve everything, but they work for free? If they're entitled then they should be expecting to get paid lots to fly big fancy airplanes, and not sell themselves short by accepting a ramp job. Haven't you been harping on for years about how pilots shouldn't accept anything but flying jobs, and anyone who works the ramp is wasting their license? Now that's actually possible, with fresh CPLs going straight into cockpits, and that makes them lazy? This loathing of anyone younger than you is really getting tiresome.

[digits_]

Haven't you been harping on for years about how pilots shouldn't accept anything but flying jobs, and anyone who works the ramp is wasting their license? Now that's actually possible, with fresh CPLs going straight into cockpits, and that makes them lazy? This loathing of anyone younger than you is really getting tiresome.

Shush... you are looking for logic where there is none

[goingnowherefast]

If they are not taught values and responsibility when they are young you get a society of people who are entitled and are taught that they are owed anything they want.

The concept of work for pay is beyond their comprehension.

I am sure happy I do not have to run a business in today's world of the entitled.

What? This makes absolutely no sense. They're entitled, and think they deserve everything, but they work for free? If they're entitled then they should be expecting to get paid lots to fly big fancy airplanes, and not sell themselves short by accepting a ramp job. Haven't you been harping on for years about how pilots shouldn't accept anything but flying jobs, and anyone who works the ramp is wasting their license? Now that's actually possible, with fresh CPLs going straight into cockpits, and that makes them lazy? This loathing of anyone younger than you is really getting tiresome.

Finally, somebody calling Cat out on his crap. Rampies are allowed to line up to fly a DC-3. Flying anything from this century, you get to be called entitled if you are flying it, and a waste of a license if you are a "pilot in waiting". Let's everybody just get off this old-timer's lawn, he's starting to look like an old troll.

[Zaibatsu]

If they are not taught values and responsibility when they are young you get a society of people who are entitled and are taught that they are owed anything they want.

The concept of work for pay is beyond their comprehension.

I am sure happy I do not have to run a business in today's world of the entitled.

I have a question I'd love an answer to:

How many who've progressed to their CPL, in the last 5 years or so, have done it without any help from the bank of Mom and Dad?

Those (very few I'd imagine) who answer in the affirmative.....kudos.

Who the @#$! cares? Maybe the fact that the upcoming generation is the first one to be paid less to do more has something to do with it. Go look at real wages vs cost of living. Go look at the wage rollbacks and B C or D scales at the airlines.

Sorry, I couldn't drop out of high school and get a union job to pay for my training like members of a previous generation could. That is, if they were actually inclined to do so instead of just buying a house on that job and pissing their money away on six packs and lottery tickets(for real, the lottos are facing shortfalls because millenials aren't buying tickets) and being so lazy and entitled that most of those jobs were exported to China.

Or get their pilots license paid for by the government. No sh**, get your license signed off, get a cheque for it.

[Cat Driver]

Let's everybody just get off this old-timer's lawn, he's starting to look like an old troll.

Yeh, that is what I must be.

Except for one little fact I also have experienced both the older days of aviation as well as the modern days of aviation.

Granted I have been out of commercial aviation since 2005 and newer technology has been introduced into the airline field of aircraft, my last training and employment was with Airbus Industries in Toulouse France at the factory where they design and build their aircraft.

As to working for Joe on the ramp to maybe get to fly his airplanes I have never experienced that but I do know him quite well from our business deals over the years.

I personally found him to be a very fair and knowledgeable person.

Anyhow goingnowherefast " modern aviation " is subjective and in most cases based on individual experience.

[Rightseatdriver]

It's one thing to work the ramp for a year or 2 then get upgraded and "earn it". It's another thing to bust your balls, stay late, come in early, cover everyone else's holiday shifts, literally get shit on by management and clean lavatories because no one else wants to day in and day out for over 2 years without getting anything other than a mediocre pay cheque and "a foot in the door" out of it. I speak for a lot of my friends that have gone through the ramp path to have their dreams of one day getting into that shiny king air, destroyed. Enough with the carrot dangling. It's 2017. The industry is moving at an alarmingly fast rate and to "earn your way" (getting Abused by management) is unnecessary. Happy I never went that route.