Scudrunners

Just throwing this out there, I know my company is pretty much screwed, they can't find any qualified pilots theses days. Pilots departing the fix for Airlines and other private ops seams almost on a weekly basis.


Hard to believe but this pilot shortage thing is finally coming true....

Remember the old days when you needed 10,000TT
and three moon landings to fly a clapped-out 'ho?

Or so they told us back then.

Like everything they told us over the decades, turns
out to be complete and utter bullshit.

Moment of irony: when pilot experience goes down,
training has to get better.  But instead, the opposite
occurs.  Oops.

Data point:  there was 28,000TT in this cockpit:
[img width=500 height=375]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... _crash.png[/img]

Despite auto-feather: 
[quote]after the failure of one engine the pilot incorrectly shut down the other, working engine[/quote]

Good job!  28,000TT in that cockpit worked out well.

Perhaps the pay is shit? It seems a great company to work for, from the people I've spoken to. Did they ever get another plane for their employee flying club after they sold the 182?

We need a company flying club 182.

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Perhaps the pay is shit? It seems a great company to work for, from the people I've spoken to. Did they ever get another plane for their employee flying club after they sold the 182?
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Nope that went and nothing ever came back. It was a great deal and well kept machine. whomever bought it got a wicked deal.


Overall it is a good company to work for, like anywhere it has its issues. Big company with a bloated bureaucracy, big boat small rudder kind of thing.
And well yes, pay is crap and its been frozen for 4 years with no signs of improvement until the oil patch turns around.

We can't hire fast enough.  The COO said it his weekly propaganda that we're getting 13 more planes this year, on top of the 5 delivered so far. (And Removing 2 dinosaurs)


We have 15 crew per aircraft, skewed in favor of captains. The only hope I/they have of keeping me around, is a new CBA by the time I return from my Tax-free vacation. 
I'll return as a captain, yet make more as a 2nd year FO at any of the big 3, regardless of aircraft type.



Good problems to have I suppose.

Trenton is losing heavy drivers to AC and WJ at an alarming rate.  We've even had a few pull the pin and head to Jazz.

Absafuckinglutely -- ungrading "ho" f/o to captain at 600 hours. On the good side we are running legal as hell. No bad wx, thunderstorms or loads brushing max gross. Grandpa has to be there in the morning for moral support -- lmfaoooooooo -- being semi-retired has it's trials  >:D

Yes they are - at least for the Summer.


I've been called and requested to do a possible ferry flight over the weekend on my off days. That's unusual.


They've also scheduled me to do extra flying instead of my normal 6 day Dubai layover (it's 40c + every day right now so I'm happy to leave...)


They did just add 2 A340 to the fleet - don't seem to be any issues finding work for them.


There are very few qualified A340 Pilots on the market - they've been taking A320 qualified guys.