Thanks for the post EFIS !
Yes, I was just after some opinions about life in general at Stobart, and about how NTR people have found the training.
The previous Aer Arann thread seemed to indicate that it was a very unhappy company, with a less than popular owner and management, and poorly maintained aircraft, and so was wondering if things had changed in that respect - or only the name ?
Day to day, life revolves around the Crew, Ops and Crew Schedulers, and I've always found good and bad everywhere; and you make the best of it wherever you are. Management can have quite an effect though generally on the 'atmosphere' you encounter during your working day, and the Training Department is obviously quite important.
As I would expect to be spending a lot of time at work in that sort of operation, it all has some bearing. And as I'm approaching retirement, I would probably consider working there as a contractor, as it more lucrative, and take the chance that a) the job will last until I retire (wrong side of sixty, so not too long), and b) that I would want to be there until I retire ? I'm in need of a job, and am at a cross-roads, and once I've decided to continue down one road, I won't be altering course. Unless I win the lotto . . . . .
Having had a mid-life crisis and changed career to "follow the dream/nightmare/adventure/tedium/fatigue . . . ad nauseum (delete as applicable)", one of things that stood out in my early days, was the perpetual moaning and bitching that pilots (amongst all the other things that they are good at) seem to be very good at. Amazing really. And these forums seem to be testament to the fact that there some who have honed this skill to perfection. However, there are also with a fair amount of good folk, who have no personal axe to grind, and are happy to share their experiences and balanced opinions, and it to these people that the thread is aimed.
So is it a company full of happy boys and girls, with well maintained aircraft and a supportive/efficient management with a no blame culture, or lots of pi@@ed off people, with crap management who will hang you out to dry if there's ever any problems, and trainers who think they are more God-like than Goddy McGodface. . . . . . .