Correction Don. We were not paid anything for sim, res, SEP etc. We were credited hours. If you went into productivity time, THEN we got paid accordingly.
Thanks to TCK, along with civi's in the TC and company transport for the instructors on sim duty ++++, that all disappeared.
This place is tolerable if you ignore it.
Without access to the inter-web, many would be in jail now or deported.
As we all know, it gives you access to the outside world and more importantly, home.
Not reading the local papers, listening to local radio or watching any local TV stations brings on a sense of being elsewhere.
Read the news on the internet, radio streaming from home and TV by the same method or anything OSN throws that is from home is better at isolating you from what the realties are of being here.
This may (will) sound lame to some, but l don't give a flying
! As are my feelings towards Dubai.
halas