What on Earths going on in the North-West??

[aileron_69]

Whats going on in the North West? I see Bushflight advertising on AFAP for a 500hr+ Pilot to start ASAP. I thought they had more pilots than hours to fly after they stopped trundling up to YKLI every day. Did some of their senior guys leave or is there some big classified contract they've just scored??

[AirlinePirate]

Arr.

Be ye warned, laddie, that startin' threads askin' questions about operators in that uncharted sea that is the Kimberley, often results in ye walkin' the plank! Aye, that an' the thread soon heads for Davey Jones' Locker!:eek:

Arr.

[aileron_69]

Ah, but the Kimberley is very well charted ground on here, someone's gotta have the goss on what the story is!!
Them GEA boys are bound to know something being right next door!!

[scuttle butt]

Like all threads it starts with an innocent question. My guess, people moving on to bigger and better things. its hard to imagine that all 8 or more guys that have left had the hours to move on so quickly.

I hear that they have already returned one of there machines. Also that the CP had to do some flights, cause they were short of qualified guys.

Good luck to those that venture into that world, I know i'm not game to.:eek:

[Rtwaddle]

Maybe the guys just all got fed up with the treatment they got from the "bosses"? Maybe they were just biding thier time till somthing better came along which, in today's situation isn't hard to come by! Pilots only ever put up with crap for hours which we arent needing so much of these days.

Grapevine has it that everyone who has left has gone to better things with some doubling their take home pay!

RT

[stick&rudder15]

Some of the boys left cause of better offers others found that there was not enough hours and started looking for new jobs.. But all the guys have new jobs flying so i guess it all worked out..
RTWATTLE good to see you didnt forget your password nice one chief catch up wuth you later mate.
and dont forget to keep on trucking

[russianthru_thesky]

Wombat, you might need to take a trip to the Optometrist mate, Bushys still have 2 Breadvans, only one gone for a trip to Kunnus. As for Pilots tho they do appear to be getting scarce around Derby...

[sugarbirdlady]

Mr Owner/CP of Bushflight

why do you continue to treat your number one asset (your staff) with such disrespect and contempt.

I have known of a number of people that have worked for you, and nobody has anything positive to say.

Screwing the staff isnt going to improve your profit line, its going to send you under.

Start treating your assets with respect, they will go the extra yards and your profit will increase.

Should you choose to ignore the advice, I look forward to seeing the bank advertising the clearing sale.

Shame on you:=:=:=:=:=:=

You probably are a shareholder in skippers, would that be correct?:confused:

[russianthru_thesky]

No worries Wombat me old mate. As for your Question, there is one turkey left, hes just started beavering, and a new guy all the way from Chch straight from the realms of flight school. Next week is the last week for the last of the 'old team' Shame really, was a barrel of laughs around YDBY with all the turkeys and their various characters cracking 5 million jokes an hour!!

[drshmoo]

I noticed they are finally deciding to offer a full time award wage

When are these companies going to realise that min wage isn't enough, but why in a pilot shortage would they even contemplate less than award..... what a joke......
Any business that doesn'y pay award or equivalent deserve to go and these days market forces will take care of that.

And its not a breadvan. We used to call it the "scarecan"

[scuttle butt]

My friend Drshmoo is correct commenly called a scarevan.

However the story goes that one unfortunate day a Turkey was given the responsibility of a FESA food drop to a community, and when you load over 40 boxes of bread on them. There you have it a Breadvan.

[Rtwaddle]

Please excuse my ignorance, but is there some new approach/arrival for Derby now? I heard on the radio the other day of someone in an Airvan conducting a Jetty 1 approach which, I was not aware of?!?! I have checked that I have my DAP's up to date yet there is still no mention of it. What is going on in the North West! :ugh:

RT

[AirlinePirate]

Arr,

That be funny, my GPS sure has a waypoint called JETTY - I don't have the coordinates on me right now (me parrot's scrounging fer buried treasure), though it may be user-entered!

It be the jetty off the township, and the Jetty One arrival be a great standard VFR arrival route!

Arr.

[Ski Guru]

its a scarecan. end of story newbies
i can't believe that experiment is still flying
powder to the people

[Ski Guru]

Time to switch to de-caff chump.

I enjoy my high horse.

[aileron_69]

Good times all around then. Sounds like you should be pretty safe from the dreaded 'non standard' radio tx's if there are no pilots left at Bushflight then 4x? The radio must damn near be silent up there in DBY!!

[russianthru_thesky]

**Just add it to the bag of tricks like joining base or final because "we know better" and having no idea how to make a standard radio call, I'd keep the hell away.**


.......I thought it was ok to join a long final approach?????? In fact im sure someone suggested that rather than a base join awhile back on a bushflight thread!!

[russianthru_thesky]

Na mate, it was ur mum i think told me that 1.

Expert you reckon, as in 'X being an unknown quantity" and 'Spirt being a drip under pressure"?
Na I believe you have that title covered, only room for one of those here.

I hope one day I can be really cool like you 4x and fly planes with lots of engines.....and still get paid shag-all!!!

[kongdong]

Strange.... last time i looked Kiwis couldn't fly:hmm:

[corowacomet]

Russian:".......I thought it was ok to join a long final approach??????....."
By that I assume you mean a straight in approach?
"Derby traffic, Russian thru the sky 10 miles to the east, inbound, conducting long final thingy for runway 29, Derby" :ugh:
You really are a tool mate :ok:.
The Comet.

[russianthru_thesky]

Hey, tools are useful!!! and its not a long final thingee, its a long final Hoodakee!!
Its ok tho, you wont see me around derby anymore so you wont need to worry anymore cap'n comet. You're safe at last!!

[2p!ssed2drive]

Pipe down fellas

This thread is about bagging out bushypupichairFlight

Not about bagging out each other :ok:

I was enjoying it... :ok:

[Aerlik]

toolowtoofast

Get in touch with me please.

[Berner]

That is what's happening here. Ops job was paid less than the pilots

[havick]

Why should they pay more than that though? If it's not a flying job..

[aileron_69]

Haha, thats why aviation companies employ wannabe pilots to do ops....so they only have to pay them shagg all!! Works out well for the bean counters and the sucked in wannabe pilots think they're doing well because they have a 'foot in the door'

[aileron_69]

Wow, that sounds enticing, Where do I sign!!!!:E

[aileron_69]

Yeah nice, sounds good. Seriously tho, what do you get for the 4 grand? Surely everyone that starts there would be CSU/Retrac endorsed and they dont have any twins that I know of, so other than a couple of hours to show new guys the ropes, check rides etc I dont see what could possibly warrant all that money?

[sugarbirdlady]

YOUNG PILOTS

be careful of this organisation

:ugh::=:ouch::(:*

[aileron_69]

Yeah young pilots be careful of most organistations, but that doesnt really answer the question.