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Tide posted:Out of curiosity, how long after getting your PPL did anyone wait before taking someone up with you? Probably 4 years for me, but I am going to guess that I am not the norm at all. I had very little money to fly other than on scholarships.
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Back onto reserve for November, the life of a pilot 
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Oct 27, 2014 19:53
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Going by McKinley on the way to Shanghai ✈
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Nov 7, 2014 18:35
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We operate HUD down from cockpit scan to after landing check. Took a few months to really get used to it being there but it's no big deal now. As Pilot Monitoring, I usually keep the seat fairly far back. This means that you don't ever come close to hitting your head, but you also don't see anything through the HUD since it has a pretty specific sweet spot where you need to keep your head.
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Nov 7, 2014 20:45
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Freshwater Louie posted:Thanks to tiny frail wires it looks like my Quiet Technologies Halo headset will not last a second Arctic winter. Reading up on ANR headsets it looks like the best bang for your buck is the Lightspeed Zulu.2. Is there anyone who has experience with them in extremely cold weather? With build quality and noise attenuation being my highest priorities is there another headset I should be looking at? Avoid anything with carbon fibre, I had two pairs of dc x13s snap in the cold in my time up north. Beyond that I'm not sure what the go to ones are these days.
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Nov 11, 2014 19:50
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Just getting around to printing out my flight logs for 2014 and I flew 441 hours total, the least of my career since graduating college. After my 787 course I sat at home for a period of around 70 days, and another stretch of 31 days. I strongly recommend bidding onto a new type as it enters service at the company if you love sitting at home.
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Jan 13, 2015 13:19
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hobbesmaster posted:I just had to post something about the 3 hour delay. It's now more like a 14 hour delay. Probably crew duty issues. Those duty days can't deal with last minute delays.
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Feb 8, 2015 17:00
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Jul 29, 2015 22:58
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Just flew a 15:15 hour leg for a new personal record. I feel like I just took a month off of my life.
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Dec 10, 2015 21:57
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Animal posted:And Atlas Air announced they intend to hire me Congrats man
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Jan 24, 2016 02:39
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I just checked my logbook and the average leg length for 2016 is 12:54. I feel like I will never have a regular sleep schedule again.
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Desi posted:So, that said, question for you Canadians in the airline world in this thread. Rumors are aplenty in the flight schools but I have limited access to people with first hand infromation. What's the hiring scoop for the duration of 2016? Something like Jazz or Porter attainable? SkyRegional or Georgian? I really would like to avoid going up to the hinterland - I'm more a city guy, I wouldn't really cut it in the bush, haha. Georgian, Sky Regional and Porter all open up around the 1500 hour mark. As much as I loved working at Porter, the AC hiring department seems to be going with a flowthrough of Jazz/GGN/SKV for the majority of hires for the next while until the hiring process changes again. AC had 339 pilot vacancies on our recent bid, of which 250 are pretty much guarantee hires in the next year. Fleet growth and incoming mandatory retirements here are going to drive a lot of the flow up in the industry over the next few years until the Canadian economy hits a wall. In your shoes I would be trying to get in with any of the 3 AC feeders equally if your goal is AC. Porter is a great place to work, and lots of people there have been transitioning to WJE and WJ, some to AC too but not nearly as many in the past. Not sure if you have a degree of any sort but that is also helpful in getting hired at some of the companies. Feel free to PM me any specific questions and I can see if I can help out.
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Jul 1, 2016 19:27
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Don't have my logbook on me but I think I had 7 or so instructors on my barebones PPL through the air cadet system. Another 12-15 for my CPL and multi IFR in college. Both were very regimented programs that didn't allow for extra flying other than the curriculum. I personally have no problem with multiple instructors if everyone is on the exact same page and curriculum, but when I instructed at a private school we each made our own lesson plans and I don't see it working that well in that environment.
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Jul 6, 2016 07:04
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two_beer_bishes posted:Awesome! I used to work for arinc as an HF radio operator and worked oceanic traffic for New York Oceanic and the Piarco FIR. I can answer anything related to HF procedures and CPDLC/datalink stuff. I think FAA regs require a CPDLC position report upon first way point in American airspace like going Fukuoka to Anchorage airspace. Nobody has ever bothered me if we didn't send it so I wasn't sure if the info the ADS is spitting out meets this requirement or if it's just the controllers don't care like missing the early Havana to Miami radio call.
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EvilJoven posted:After speaking with both the instructor I went up with last Monday and my wife just speaking with her boss a few minutes ago, who retired as an Air Canada captain 2 months ago, I'm most likely going to go commercial. As MrChips mentioned, the info you are getting is an exaggeration of the current situation in Canada but I suppose not totally incorrect. Depending on your definition of regionals, then some people are getting hired at 250 hours. Other regionals like Jazz have agreements with certain Aviation Colleges like Seneca & Sault, where they offer a cadet style program to top grads. The AC retirement numbers are off too. We are currently in what would have been peak years if mandatory retirement at 60 was in effect and although some are still going early others are and will be pushing it to 65. I am in the bottom quarter of the seniority list and am forecast to move up about 410 numbers in the next 5.5 years. On a list of 3300 you can see that the number is a bit off. People like your Wife's boss have a somewhat unrealistic view of the industry for the most part. They lived through the best years and were part of the right demographic group to have amazing careers for the most part. My average income for my first 5 years of commercial aviation was 16,000 per year or so, and in year 1 I spent more than I made keeping my car on the road to make it to the airport to instruct. That said, I think it still is a decent time to get into aviation in Canada, the peak might have been 3 years or so ago, but any major economic event can and will bring this industry back down onto its knees. I consider myself very lucky in terms of how my career has gone so far because I know that the career path of some of my friends and classmates has not been as great.
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Jul 12, 2016 21:26
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Desi posted:So I'm throwing around the idea of staying a Flight Instructor a bit longer than I have to and getting the Pilot Examiner (or DPE as you yanks call 'em) certification before making a break for the airlines. Basically, the school I work for cranks out a serious percentage of the Multi and IFR ratings issued in Canada every year and our staff examiner is looking to retire, and its looking like he will be replaced by a handful of on-call examiners - I could likely get the company to sponsor me and fulfill the 'need' requirement. I already meet (or almost meet) most of the other requirements pertaining to my training record and such except for the hours (2000TT/1500PIC/500MPIC), I was hoping to make a run at the airlines before Winter but if I want to give this a go I'd need to stick around and up my PIC/MPIC through to the Spring as it'd be years before I start logging MPIC at the airlines. I'd likely seek authority for Multi and IFR rides, and if I could pick up the PPL/CPL authority with it that would just be gravy. That's a tough one, but if you are fairly close to those mins that you posted I would say it's a decent time to move to a regional. Upgrade times are low and dropping and if you have PIC time you are in a good spot to move fairly fast.
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Aug 20, 2016 21:36
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Captain Apollo posted:Please, to any future pilots, please do not fly with any cold or allergies or stuffiness that is beyond the 'normal' for you. My dad swears that he blew his hearing out flying with a head cold one day. I flew a medivac the day I booked back on thinking I was fine and I sure as a hit wasn't. Paramedics ended up dealing with me instead. Felt like my eyes popped out the front of my face.
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Nov 7, 2016 03:31
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I haven't touched my logbook in over 5 years now and it feels great!
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I am totally out of the loop, how is Amazon to work for so far compared to the cargo carriers?
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Feb 1, 2017 18:29
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Condolences, I lost a friend back while I was instructing and it is one of those things that reminds you of the risks that we sometimes downplay.
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Feb 15, 2017 15:09
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Had that happen while I was instructing. Student flew it back from an airport on a cross country after the prop strike.
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Desi posted:Haha yep, don't want to advertise who it is, but it isn't a secret or anything. I know a lot of people that have gone through there and flown the MU2 that have had a good time. I have been told that 'If you cowboy it, you will die' about the plane though, so that's fun. Congrats, Good fair place to work at who won't try to kill you.
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