These guys find pilots, HOW?
Number ONE on my "Avoid Like The Plague" list. Totally disgusting!


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Please tell me this is your version of a sick joke, if this is true then shame on you North Wright but even more so to all the pilots who think they can call that a "job" did you get into aviation to make a living or am I missing something here?Brown Bear wrote:The company takes 250$ a month off a pilot's pay cheque for four years, plus, make that PLUS, a fifteen THOUSAND dollar bond for any new PPC, even if a pilot already works there
Oh no! They're going to be devastated!Number ONE on my "Avoid Like The Plague" list.
Why are you always so negative, your a joke...shimmydampner wrote:Oh no! They're going to be devastated!Number ONE on my "Avoid Like The Plague" list.
round pounder wrote:Please do not get me wrong, the amount of sheeite disturbors out here is amazing, hell its avcanada, if this is true then wow shame on north wright, but have to ask where this data is coming from? Pilots are the most narcasistic folks out there, come on boys and girls, bitch and squawk all you want it is what it is, you knife each other in the back daily, hourly by the minute to get an hour in the all too precious log book in order to further yourself into a widebody, then it starts all over again. So if your up in the wells eating ketchup soup and noodles working for someone willing to rape you, you have no one to blame but yourself and are assisting the demise of this career even further. Just so you know when a resume crosses my desk with words like I work for free, I will pay for my PPC those resumes get placed on the company bulletin board for all to have some great shits and giggles.Aviation is a small community even for a country as vast as ours, your name will get around its inevitable. Someones getting a happy ending and I bets its not the scab up north working for free. flysafe and dont fly for free
So, you'd be a willing participant in a deal like this then?shimmydampner wrote:Oh no! They're going to be devastated!Number ONE on my "Avoid Like The Plague" list.
Wow, well said, I could not agree more. While not all pilots are narcissistic to the point that it becomes a negative personalityround pounder wrote: Pilots are the most narcasistic folks out there,
Round pounder,round pounder wrote:Pilots are the most narcasistic folks out there, come on boys and girls, bitch and squawk all you want it is what it is, you knife each other in the back daily, hourly by the minute to get an hour in the all too precious log book in order to further yourself into a widebody, then it starts all over again.
So, you could work for them for three years and eleven months, and the $11,750 they withheld from money that you EARNED could be pocketed by these bandits?DanWEC wrote:I can't comment on the additional bond for the PPC, but when I was sent an offer a while ago the 250 per paycheque is held as a "bonus" that you get back at the end of 4 years. If you leave a day early it's all kaptuz. They sounded like nice guys on the phone but it was an offer I just couldn't bring myself to accept, even as a 200 hr pilot in desperate need of a first job. I couldn't believe I was turning down a job, and who knows what experiences I would have had by now, but in retrospect, I'm glad I made the choice I did!
No, and I'm sure they don't care.Brown Bear wrote:So, you'd be a willing participant in a deal like this then?shimmydampner wrote:Oh no! They're going to be devastated!Number ONE on my "Avoid Like The Plague" list.
problem is, how do you save when you are young in this industry? It seems like 35-50k is the new norm. That's if you can get a job that pays 35k after 60k of training debt, and maybe a few years instructing which probably digs the hole even deeper.Morav wrote:my advice is to save while young
Of the 28 pilots that left during my time working for NWA only 1 left for an AC interview and as for the check it is no way like receiving a bonus, you've had to work for that money. You will most likely dump that money onto your credit card bills or student loans you haven't had the slightest chance for repaying. It is virtually impossible to eat and have any sort of social life(if you could call it that in the Well) and save any cash while you are taking home $968.70 every MONTH!!! (pay day is every 1st of the month). Oh and the small amount you do save you'll blow buying approach plates, paying for your medical, seeing the dentist, etc. as you'll have zerooo benefits.leftoftrack wrote:Except the guys who come out of school and after six months are flying a 206 a year later are on a caravan a year after that are co joe on a 99 and 1 more summer become multi turbine captains with 3000 Hrs and a 10 000 check on their way to an AC interview. Your right they do suck and are bringing the industry wages down.
P.s. $4000 + .10 per mile adds up doing 30000 miles per month
shimmydampner wrote: It's funny that no one gets all up in arms about the pathetic starting wages at the mainline level.