Regarding the hiring process:
Papayo.....you have a very very good chance being type rated...just give them some time and even call them whenever you can. Try to get in touch wit a pilot, maybe he/she can forward your resume
Payscale: all includedan FO takes home an average of 21000Qr and a captain 28000QR. This regardless of fleet, experience or seniority. Talks have been hoing on for 1.5years now about a payrise but so far nothing happend
A330 seats....NO WAY!! New hire pilots will start on the A300 or 320 fleetand will have to await there upgrades.
The only thing is that if you have a very strong french accent you might have a hard time getting in.....reason being that they do not understand frenglish and to be honest, I cant either! Some french pilots accent is just horrible
Agelimit.......nothing there to my knowledge
Hiring process, still going strong despite the war...
QR is still a very good opportunity as a pilot....just sit back , relax, stay out of politics, do your job and enjoy the ride....
Goldstone, would it be possible to say a bit more about AABs speach in the aviation club plse...
hope this helped
Regarding CRM......
the course is there, the instructors are very good but........in real life CRM still has a long way to go, especially in the relationship between cockpit and cabin! A lot of local pilots still feel that the forward call button needs to be pushed at least once every minute and this for the stupiest things...
Luckily for the FAs the expats do not have this habbit, isnt it girls???
What we do have is a very strict task allocation between PF and PNF (not capt/ copilot). QR is one of the most liberal and advanced companies regarding this subject. As a mather of fact they follow the airbus policy almost 100% hereby getting rid of a cockpit gradient. The PF has most of the decisions to make on his stretch and Capt only takes over as PNF in real emergencies.
So its safe to say that both pilots in front are equally capable of doing everything on board.
Also every pilot knows the SOP very well so there is no confusion possible. With 55 nationalities flying for QR everybody knows it very well that adherence to sops is the only safe way of flying overthere....
So for me this system works very well, sops and task allocation. In the meanwhile the CRM concept can grow.
But I can assure you, a lot of major carriers around the world focuss only on CRM and nothing on the rest and this results in a far far unsafer situation!
I prefer the way QR works much better.....