Massey Dash 8 Sim is a GO!!

[Massey Pro]

Great news everyone...
Was unable to do my flight test the other day.. (crosswind exceeded 10.15 kts) So I stayed home and downloaded a Dash 8 Programme (Q300 of course) onto my Flight Sim 2004 Simulator on my home computer...
Next move is to burn a copy and put it onto our flash simulator here at Massey... I will be up to speed on the Dash 8 shortly so could start checking and training within a couple of days.

[belowMDA]

Sweet! can you rustle us up some p charts and find out how many we can pull out of Whangarei. Word on the street says 49 in the Q300 but I reckon with those massey skills you can probably stretch this to 50! let us know how you get on..:ok:

[DVDA]

Also after you've done that can you tell me who that hot little blondie is in that massey ad posing by a seneca in the latest NZ aviation news. I would like to "interfere" with her.
many thanks
:E

[Massey Pro]

Word on the street says 49 in the Q300 but I reckon with those massey skills you can probably stretch this to 50

I find your post absolutely insane!!!!!! Here at massey... we don't stretch anything... although thanks for your comment on basically how skilled and professional we are.

How we work our performance calculations is we get the CAA rules, pay thousands of dollars to industry 'consolutants', then we put our 'safety buffer' (500%) into it and that's how we come up with our safe operating procedures...

50 Passengers out of Whangarei... I wouldn't even try that on my Flight Sim 2004!!!! I have looked at the performance calculations, added the 'Massey Buffer' and have worked out 23 passengers would be our max... that will get us airborne just before half way... (Massey policy)

[deadhead]

After that, can you please formulate a concept for merging the seniority lists for Mt Cook, Eagle and Air Nelson without upsetting anyone?

Ta

dh

[Eurocap]

Thats easy.

Date of joining rules.

Keep your present position until a new one is advertised and the most senior who applies has the slot.

Keep it simple.

:ok: :{ := :yuk:

[Massey Pro]

There is only one clear and easy solution in merging the seniority list for these Airlines...
Current Massey Pro's will go to training roles on the ATR's and wait for the Q400's... We are the most current and up to speed for the roles involved... (I can fly a cracker of an NDB approach when the wind is under 15kts) After us in seniority will be ex. Massey students.. (No longer referred to as Pro's sorry) as they used to be very good and one or two of them still owe me a beer.
Then.... well I couldn't care less who actually gets to fly what below me... Maybe I'll screen everyone on my Dash 8 simulator... anyone that comes close to the skills of us Massey Pro's will be considered......... but to be realistic........... Anyone that turns up with a box of beer goes straight to the top of my list.

[belowMDA]

MP, do I understand from your posts that they don't train you for the real world at Massey? How can this be? This comes as a great shock. tell me it's not true!

[Massey Pro]

BrokeMDA....
Of course we're all trained for the real world!!!!!!!
You know... we all do our training and graduate with plenty of two crew multi engine IFR experience.... from there we just go into jets... Personally I just think we're fed a little bit of monkey juice (or jizz) in regards to the jets, and some of my classmates seem to take the bait and think that jet's are a reality.
Am I the only one here with any sense?? I can't imagine too many companies would take anyone with just over 200 hours straight into a jet... hence my plan... either a Direct Command at Eagle or a Co position at either Air Nelson or Mt Cook. After reading the other post in this forum regarding general aviation employers, I just can't imagine why anyone would want to work under those conditions..... each to their own I guess, but I'd just go straight into an airline personally.

[ZK-NSN]

MASSEY PRO - You might be lucky if you get a direct entry command on the grill at Burger king. I really hope your taking the mickey.

[ViagraDependent]

Hey Massey Pro,

How goes the training on the 400? I hear Air Nelson is doing a course on the SAABs in a couple of weeks. R u on it or r u waiting for the training position on the 400's to come up?

[EMS R22]

The little blondie in the ad now flys a 73 for Freedom.

[distracted cockroach]

Didn't know there were any Massey gals in Freedom. Think they've only got 3 women pilots at the moment and 2 of them are Captains. Must be an old photo.

[Massey Pro]

ViagraKing...
Nah they didn't ring me this time round... Maybe the're just holding my CV off till people start leaving the Saab for the Dash then they will slip me in Direct Command.
The Q400 training hasn't been going that well actually.... My chief chair mover (he likes being called that so will go with it) has left so ya could say that the motion on the sim is f:mad: ed!!!
To be honest he was a bit of an idiot that guy... he's taken off and recons that I'll be working at this KFC outfit while he's cruisin the skies in a jet. Still quite keen for their contact details, (for KFC) someone said on the other post that they are way down south... how far down?? Anyone know?? I wouldn't be that keen going too far cause I gotta keep Dad sweet incase I need a type rating so the closer to him the better... And coming into winter, I don't like flyng in the rain or with any clouds and also it's too cold down south so maybe it could be an option over summer.

[Cloud Cutter]

I've had an idea. MP, why don't you start up your own regional using only ex Massey students. Of course you would have to use real aeroplanes, you know, the ones without propellors, that you guys are trained to fly.

I think with all the Massey trained ace jet jockeys (there seems to be a few of them 'available', can't think why?), you would quickly attract public interest as an extra safe airline, using proper aeroplanes, and Air NZ would be unable to compete.

I would run with this idea myself, but unfortunately as a non Massey graduate I lack the skill and business savy required. Oh well, back to my little toy prop plane :(

[KID Quality]

Cutter thats the best darned idea I've herd in donkies......But Cathay will not take that lying down you can beat your last two bob on that!
If they get wind they could lose their supply of elite pilots they will be sure to enter the NZ market as a domestic player. Another possibility is that Cathay would start having to pay their own bonded students to complete their training in Godzone. They quite simply would not be able to continue what with the current worldwide pilot shortage and thats even including the masses of non-massey average joes.