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I can think of at least three Qlink captains who are ex-military helo pilots. One came straight from the Navy (seahawks); not sure if the others did some GA flying between the Army and Qlink.
JustFlight
Some things don't change. We're currently short crew, there's a new Q400 due to arrive any day now and we're getting three more Q400's this year. Not sure if any of the 300's are going, but late last year we took back a 300 that had been operating in W.A.
We've had some recent resignations, but there are rumours of as many as 30 pilots on the VA hold file. Luckily for our Ops, the rumoured massive pilot recruitment from VA hasn't yet eventuated.
I would imagine however, that recruitment wont increase this year. The main reason for this is because our training department can barely cope with our current levels of recruitment.
DIVOSH!