More Pay For Pilots!!!!!!

[Alfie Stenloop]

Rumours are circulating around JHC that if SH Navs are replaced by a quality GPS system the estimated saving could be in the millions. Also some of the money would then go to paying pilots more flying pay thus aiding retention. After a great deal of discussion in the crewroom the following plus points were identified:

1. GPS is more accurate
2. No moaning from the other seat
3. More fuel
4. GPS doesn't work a crew duty time
5. GPS doesn't require a pension
6. GPS won't moan about reduced
levels of flying pay

Any Thoughts??????

[ 21 September 2001: Message edited by: Alfie Stenloop ]

[ShyTorque]

Keep Navs.

In the event of ditching it reduces the chance of a shark attack on the pilot.

:D

ShyT

[Audax]

Keep the Navs, after all you can't eat a GPS in a survival situation! :D

[Hengist Pod]

But GPS doesn't have this desire to shout all the time on intercom, plus it's easier to zero GPS if things go pear-shaped. I've tried zeroing a nav before and things can get messy. Having only GPS will also solve that most common of LHS dilemmas : "Well I think we're here but the GPS thinks we're two miles away." (Usually somewhere across a border of your choosing if it's a Puma.)

[Gazelle Tiffy]

More pay for Pilots, do be brief. After Pay2000 be a technician and have norman the storeman getting paid more than you !!!!
At least you retained your flying pay, my blokes get no rise from Class 3 to 2 status, and you think you have a problem with retention

[Sloppy Link]

GPS or Nav, they both have to have information punched into them to work.

[pana]

GPS, what's that?? :D :D :D

[Tonkenna]

Don't forget though Sloppy that with GPS you only have to punch the information in once!! :D

Tonks :)

[fone_effect]

With all that extra wonga you could employ a tart from the NAAFI to make you tea and have change to buy an indian take-away.

Ain't life grand ?

[ol_benkenobi]

GPS wont trash your callsign but then it can't fill out incident signals either.

[WindyMate72]

I believe that they should remain and that all Navs should be female because you're at least guaranted a decent cup of tea, plus they can keep the front end tidy and make your bed on dets!! :D

[Cornish Jack]

Nice thought, Alfie.. but it'll never work. Where on earth would you find a pilot intelligent enough to operate a GPS... I mean, for goodness sake, it has an ON/OFF switch which has to be moved in the correct direction and there isn't room on pilot's gloves to write THAT reminder as well as the mandatory LEFT and RIGHT!!! :p :p

[dwaynedibley]

Heard the story of a female Lynx Pilot in the emerald toilet who tried to snag a cab as the IFF transponder wouldn't work in the O.F.F. position.

Nice.....

[uncle peter]

not as bad as the instructor at valley who had "breathe in, turn over" on the palm of his glove and "breathe out, turn over" on the flip side...

[MG]

What a ridiculous idea! Who would do all of the planning whilst the pilots sat around the crewroom until briefing time (although with most pilots, there is no such thing as a brief, only a long). AND THEN, who's going to carry the nav bag? I can see the bickering all the way to the cab! (You love me really!!) :D

[KentBrockman]

Wish I had someone to do my planning, map reading, bed making etc. Its a hard life being a real pilot, not half of a circus act. :D

[Master baiter]

GPS gets my vote and it's not an anagram of VAGINAROT!!!

MB :p