Anybody still doesn't know what Qlink is gonna do with Trainee Level 1 guys? Is Qlink going to send them to UNSW to finish the rest of ATPL written tests? or give these dudes a certain time frame to complete all ATPL written tests?

What's your problem? Is it a crime to ask a question nowadays? And yeah, they are written. Why don't you just bugger off if you can't offer an answer?

Whatever you say, you knee-jerk disrespectful dumb arse. If you ain't offering an answer and be helpful to another, just keep your mouth shut and mind your own business.

Personality test fail.

Why thank you. I don't stand still and say nothing to those who offend me first when I didn't do anything wrong. Perhaps you think to differ. :ok:

Your English grammar is almost as good! :-)

Yes you better get a handle of using the correct phraseology! "Pull fuel-hyd off handle.....pull" can be a mouthful in the heat of the moment :-)

Wow!
 

lee_apromise

Here's a top tip:

If your response to

is

and

don't bother coming here.

Your grammar and spelling were poor. However, the response from AreaRuleAce was about a 2 out of 10, as far as criticism goes.


What are you going to say during your interview if the interviewer gives you a bit of a rough time (they've been known to do that). Are you going to flare up at him? Tell him to bugger off? Call him a disrespectful dumb arse?

How about if you get through. During your endorsement training your Sim trainer gets stuck into you about some poor performance? Going to flare up at him/her?

You wont last long.

Learn how to deal with criticism.

DIVOSH!

If you make through the selection process, You'll be eaten alive during your training (classroom/sim/line) with an attitude like that. :=

As has been mentioned before, QLink's HR and Training departments are running flat out. They probably don't know for sure yet how it'll pan out. Once they have a concrete process, no doubt they let UNSW know.

Di_Vosh

Thank you for your kind remarks and your advice is fully appreciated and I do mean it.

As an ex-engineer and ex-F/O trying to get back to flying after 2 years of recovery from surgeries, I do know when to bend over during interviews and type rating training. I am not an idiot.

I do admit I lost my cool and it is probably because I am under a lot of pressure lately.

Nevertheless, I fully recognise my childish behaviour and I do apologise to the rest of PPRuNe fellow members for disturbing the peace of this great forum.

Lee

For those freaking out about traineeship interview dates, have you considered there is no rush while they are getting a good number of direct entry applications?

There must be a reason that they want both direct entry and traineeship applicants employed within the group.

I would suggest that there would never be a shortage of direct entry applicants in Australia with 700+ hours of command.

If they are short on applicants with twin or turbine time, they could still just reduce the direct entry requirements for those parameters and still get a truckload of applicants who are way more experienced than a fresh CPL with 150 hours (once again, I would be surprised if there is ever a shortage of applicants with 200+ hours of twin time anyway).

Could it also be that they consider the less experienced pilots will have lower prospects of being able to move on and go elsewhere given that they will have only F/O time and no twin command time even after several years of employment.

An experienced GA pilot, even after only serving as an F/O within the group, will quite possibly have 500+ hours of twin command time from elsewhere that will enable him/her to move on to bigger and better things when the opportunity arises.

Just a thought...

If that's the case, why did they have a trainee program in place under the previous EBA when there was no economic benefit?

A traineeship potentially lets them get a longer return of service, the lower pay is just a bonus. The bigger issue seems they need FOs now, and direct entry guys can be trained up much faster (solving issues in the short term).

My guess is the reason they hire 'Trainee' pilots is so this exact problem will occur less frequently. Pilots entering the company with lower hours than your regular D/E pilot will have to remain in the company longer to get anywhere in their career. A D/E might have the time/experience/qualifications to move on in their career within just a few years. Where as trainees with extremely limited experience and command time have to stick around.

I think some of you are reading too much into this.

IIRC, the reason that the traineeships were begun in the past was that there were insufficient numbers of DE applicants.

And while I might agree with

I would counter with a point of view that there may be a shortage of suitable applicants.

IMHO, Qlink management agree, so in an attempt to broaden the range of applicants, the Traineeship (in whatever form it takes) is kept open.

DIVOSH!

P.S. Lee_apromise :ok:

Yeah, you're probably right about lower pay just being a bonus. I retract my opinion that cheaper wages would be their primary motivation.

Also right DIVOSH.

Are they doing something rare for most operators in Aus, and trying to think ahead and plan for a possible short term boom, but not backing it up by being unprepared for how to actually insert any selected (non DE) candidates into the system in a timely manner. They need to be trained, checked to line etc and the current system can only do 10-15 candidates over 6 weeks at a time as far as I know (UNSW was not approved yet with the last news I heard- has that changed?) and only FTA are doing it?

I see the second half of this year there being a lot of movement, but there is a massive queue of experienced guys and gals waiting and ready to go due to the stagnancy over the last few years.

Still , like many idiotic pilots, and despite plenty of evidence (which I ignore) to the contrary I'm positive about the future.. :}

Seriously?! Pull your head in mate. If you're this disenfranchised, quit.

I'm with Spoons on this one, although alot easier to say than do. Qlink really isn't that bad though. Yes it has its issues like any large company, however if you go to work do your job properly and safely, return home pickup your pay cheque all isn't that bad. If you want to see disheartened maybe you should peruse the Middle East threads Divosh.😊

Spoons9

I'm curious, did you create your Prune Id simply to have a go at a post I wrote three weeks ago? Kind of says more about you than me, IMHO!

"If you don't like it, leave" was the Qlink management motto back in the old days. It fell out of favour when the previous General Manager (NK) said those very words to a group of Brisbane Captains who met him to complain about their workload. Ten of them proceeded to leave over the next four months.

DIVOSH!