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Old 30th Jun 2011, 01:33
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Flaps 1 billion
 
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Not good

In all honesty, don't bother.

Pay: 38gs for year 1 S/O, goes up about 2% a year
52gs for year 1 F/O, no you won't carry over any time in company

Days off: 12 SDO, scheduled days off, meaning the dirt bag that works in crewsked can and will force you to work more, upwards of 24/month, been there, had the arguments.

Training and all that is paid at full salary from day 1, the training department is full of some fantastic people, lots of experience and lots to learn from. However, when you get home, don't look forward to any actual sked days off until you finish line indoc.

50 people have left in the last 4 years, that's a lot considering they only employ 85 pilots. When the industry picks up, people leave quickly, average of a least 1 a month right now, 3 in May.

As a result, they are only hiring instructors and newly minted pilots from Seneca. Any wise guy can figure out why they're hiring low time pilots, they don't have the time to leave and the carrot dangles for the right seat. Nothing against these new people at all as they're all good people, just the way they do things. When I started, you needed 2500hrs with some multi, not anymore.

Carrot dangling continues, wages are now below par, time at work is well above the other cargo ops, fatigue is rampant with not a care, even when it was brought up to the CEO.

You'll only start in the backseat so time flown doesn't matter, it isn't worth anything to anyone anymore. They've just done a bunch of upgrades to the right seat so don't look for much more. This bunch going to the right seat have been waiting 3+ years. When I started, it was about a year but that was under expansion and massive attrition.

You're much better to find something else, it really is not worth it.
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