HI to all.....life is going o.k. Still in the middle of a divcorce I didn;t want nor ask for. CAL would not extend a leave any longer and that's that. there was an option to pay for training after the 6 month period (may be a Taiwan CAA thing on inactivity),but that was extened and then rescinded. I can't understand why,but that is the way life turns out sometimes. I enjoyed many things about CAL and all but about 5 were good people . One was Chief pilot who was subsequently removed and despised by his own management and others. It is bad when your boss and colleagues have to make excuses for one's behavior .There were a few other people who knew everything that I did not care for. The vast majority were wonderful and I still call most everybody there (pilots and staff) as friends. I enjoyed Taipei and Taiwan.
But I want to work in a stress free place where people respect each other and standards are high enough to assure competentcy, but not to have a syllabus of numerous maneuvers of things that can't happen and people who nit-pick. When you spend your month fearing going back to a training center for checking and testing and when people make it seem like a line check is supposed to be some major goal to succeed to live until your next trip, then it is not stress free.
Anyway,I hope this answers a few postings and hope you all are doing well.
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If you hear of any good left seat jobs that pay the big bucks that only work on Tuesdays, drop me a message!
I think flying corporately for a few others is where I am going at this advanced age of 56.
Anyway, off of my soap box.