Merged: A330 Captains and FOs basing in DARWIN?

[WangFunk]

Anybody know who Rishworths are advertising A330 crew -Darwin, for?

[swh]

Air Luxor A330 for DOD contract

[MIss Behaviour]

Thought all the crews were Portguese like the aircraft?
Wish they'd do something about the bright pink colour of the hosties uniforms. It's enough to make you wanna :yuk:

[Aussie]

Yeah a colour change wouldnt hurt, but hey, theyre all hot! ;)
Aussie

[Sheep Guts]

Just been on the certain NZ flight crew resource website it states a position as in the above. Does anyone know who it is? Or how many crew are they looking for? Just out of curiousity.

http://www.rishworth.co.nz/opportunities/oppslist.asp?cat=1


Regards
Sheep

[Moniker]

I do believe that the Air Luxor bus is going to be crewed with Dom and Intl AU crew. Dom crew already in place, Intl being recruited now. Acft stages thru' DRW, so makes sense that it is to be the Intl base.

[Gnadenburg]

There are some real drongos & misfits in the Airbus contract world- that is where some of these pilots spawn & stay for their entire careers.

I find it hard to believe Defence would go for a contract with such little quality control- that is, pilot recruitment through a recruitment agency.

The American military has sufferred enormously before more stringent quality control procedures in place. A few high profile, fatal crashes of cheap, leased airliners full of military personnel occurred in the early 90's.

It is the cheapest option obviously. Why couldn't Qantas do it? They did it during Vietnam etc.

[Capt Claret]

C'mon Gnads, you don't really expect the Gummint to support those who (sadly) supported it. Do you?:\

A friend's, daughter's, signifficant other had a week to 10 days R&R from EyeRak (to use the A-merican vernacular) in early Feb and said A330 broke down some where in the ME. Poor bugger had to come back to DRW via Singapore, Perth & Alice, and lost two or three days of said R&R. Now he's back in EyeRak with no return date, pending the whim of LJH, which no doubt will require input from Dubya.

[Hugh Jarse]

Gnads wrote: I find it hard to believe Defence would go for a contract with such little quality control- that is, pilot recruitment through a recruitment agency.


Gnads, Gnads, Gnads...As that *&^% James Strong said: "Competitive tendering" (The cheapest quote):rolleyes: regardless of quality:yuk:

I'm sure most of us have gotten quotes for various work that needed to be done around home, but not accepted the cheapest quote. Well, I know I have.

It's all about VALUE for money. But you can't put brains in a statue..:mad: to some people (EGM's, MD's etc) price is everything. No, the ONLY thing:yuk:

[victor two]

Why doesn't the ADF retrain pilots from Australia's biggest waste of time and money, that being the Roulettes, to fly the big mother............?

[MIss Behaviour]

Claret

Just as well he was flying on a B717 PER/DRW which are extremely reliable and never have any significant delays due to a lack of spare parts being held at certain northern bases, or he might've been looking at losing another couple of days of R&R! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


Saucer of milk please :ok:

[Capt Claret]

MissB

My comment wasn't directed at the reliability of the machine. The old addage applies; if you've got time to spare, go by air. I was aluding to the fact that the ADF didn't give the poor sods any extra time off to make up for the breakdown.

But since you mentioned spares and lack therof. Ask yourself these questions.
Who is the lessee of the aircraft?
Who controls the stock of spares and their disposition?
Is it an operational person, or a bean counter?

[Skydrol_ise]

Last few weeks witnessed a few 717 flights delayed in Darwin, sometimes till late afternoon.
This caused a few hassles for fellow travellers who luckily ended up catching Skywest flights to Perth.
Other choice was to fly quite later 6 pm from memory, thats a 12 hour delay.
I would of thought the 717 being a lot newer would be far more reliable than the older 146s.
I'm sure the previous 717 operator didnt have as many problems

:confused: :confused: :confused:

[boeingwest]

Porn* didn't Skydrol_ise! It's the drivers in Darwin, they keep shaggin' the 712! Very rarely is there a delay in any other port!!

Come on Clarry!!! WIND UPPPPP WIND UPPPPP!!!!
:} :p

[FBW390]

Hi,
A few questions and answers:
- I don' t obviously think Contract Compagnies are less strict on the quality of their pilots than airlines. It depends: which contractor, and which airline.
As always, there are good and bad ones...
-Original question: how many Captains and FOs does this contractor need?
Who knows? For when? How many do they have for the time?

For me this contract is to operate from Darwin to Chagos to Kuwait, stby 1 week in Kuwait and back.

Any has more infos?
Thanks. FBW 390

[OZFURYFAN]

Hi all,1st post,but I couldn't resist responding re 717 delays.Qf sets the spares qty held in Drw and all other bases.As a LAME,it goes against my grain to ground an aircraft for a minescule part but that is exactly the situation that Qf want.They are willing to screw around 100+ pax for something as simple as a mainwheel.Regarding reliability,the previous operater had a fair bit of fun with the 717 with electrical issues to the extent that the first bit of troubleshooting was 'shut down & repower system'.Personally I find it no different to the 146,the both have their little idiosyncrasies.Cheers,OZ

[slice]

FBW390 -

Would Chagos be a tech stop or do the ADF have some operations based out of there ?

[propaganda]

Tech stop I reckon.. I don't see a A330 doing Darwin- Kuwait direct. Not with 300 + squaddies & kit.....poor sods spending a week in KWI on SBY.
unless Rishworth are paying serious wonga with 2 weeks off after each trip..
it sounds like a no brainer.......:ok:

[bdcer]

Victor Two, I can't really comment whether the Roulettes are a waste of money or not, but I wanted to point out that the pilots of the Roulettes are already busy with their primary role of ADF instructor training. The display flying is more of a secondary role & often occurs in their own time (I know I wouldn't give up my spare time to work up & conduct flying displays!). Cheers