Hi
The company is good to build hours, the money is ****, and they'll ask you to sign a 3 months notice when you want to leave. By UAE labour law 2 months is the enough.Tell them you'll only sign for 2 or even 45 days.
Try get more money out of the them, because they are so desperate for pilots, am sure they might give you more.
The planes look like a bag of ****, but a couple run ok.
I think one lost an engine the other day out of Barhain and one had a heavy landing, bent it to ****, but it actaully looks the same.
Also watch your duty hours, and know your legalitites, because they make you do **** that will get you into trouble.
There are a few good guys there, but i don't think they be around long, because everyone looking to move on, other companies offer more money,and it so expensive to live in dubai on a falcon salary. It's not like its used to be about 6 or 7 years ago. Everything in dubai as gone up apart from the salary. As long as the lebanese are running the company they will not be putting the salary up, if they do it'll be max 500-1000dhs. Which really isn't enough with the cost of living going up 14% evry year in dubai
Tight purse strings on them F
kers. They pay on time and when you are away they out you up in nice hotels, which is a bounes. Also being in dubai has alot of opportunties to move on to different companies, corporate which pay the big bucks. So move on as soon as you can.
Apts nowadays varies.
4000-6000 for a small 1 bed, depending on where you live, International city is cheap. It gets more expensive the close you live in dubai. But you'll definitly need a car.
Alot of Falcon guys live in the big brother house, which is around 2500-3500 for a room which shares with about 12 others plus the extra phillipinos that sleep on the couch and floor. Best things is to find someone to share with, which happenes alot in dubai, check out Spinneys notice board for rooms to let, that can also be expensive.
If you look in Sharjah for a place to live, is a little cheaper, but they a jumping on the band wagon like dxb and the traffic from there is ridiculous.
If your looking for 1900 flying try Solenta out of SA, get good time and pay better.