Originally Posted by
sheppey
Rumour has it be prepared to grease some palms if you want to pass the medical.
Are we talking "happy money"..? Make sure it comes in a little red bag 🤦🏼*♂️
No, but on a more serious note, I just got a rundown on how things are rapidly changing in VNA when it comes to Command Responsability: you are now "legally" not allowed to hand-fly unless you are in landing configuration; that must solve a LOT of destabilization problems as local pilots loved flying manually from FL200 downward! And those automatic trim changes during the configuration must have seriously screwed up these perfect approach and landing profiles. This will DEFINETLY improve the Vietnamese ADM process, increase CRM (more time to finish that ciggy!), reduce Hard-Landings to Near zero and, hey, who needs basic hand-flying skills anyways, in the Simulator those are coded. SO realistically, and you don't really need your hand-flying-skills unless you are intending to betray VNA, the best of the best airline and employer in the world, and intend to interview for some other, higher paying, better organized airline! 🤦🏼*♂️
And then there is the Pilot-playing-mechanic-walk-around: now as PIC sign and accept responsibility of the aircraft and all of its maintenance issues, as the two-year long trained Grease-Monkey would; funny fact: the CAAV does not authorize this at home, inside Vietnam, but outside VNA can do as they please...
Personal recommendation: if you don't have a lot of experience or if you never flew in a "Pirate-Outfit", don't apply in VNA. You are risking your career, if you ever had one; but if you got more than ten thousand hours, don't really care or have opted in Black Flag Airlines before, you'll fit right into this circus 😆