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Old 21st May 2011, 03:04
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Snowcat
 
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Don't waste your time !!!

There are lots of advertisements, almost everybody is trying to recruit for them. Don't waste your time !!
The hotels for screenings are terrible. The whole process is handled by kids with no experience in dealing with foreign pilots. They make many
last minute schedule changes and the list goes on and on.
You will have to deal with a CAAC check rides, where they fail many for good reasons and others for no reasons. It is a very long process, if you are lucky it will take 5 months to start working.
If you get the job you will have to deal with pilots smoking cigarettes in the cockpit. Most of the Chinese FOs do not speak English so they have a crew member who translates.
The regulation in China requires a foreign pilot to fly with a Chinese FO.
The translators (which lack experience) speak very poor English and you will have to deal with them during the screening, training and flights.
Don't ask me what would happen during an in flight emergency if you would have to communicate to your FO through a translator (seated in the jumpseat) who speaks English poorly.
It is not worth flying for them for the money they say they are going to pay you.
Don't forget you will have to breath in the smog while you live there.
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