Flybe recruiting

[Taiguin]

Hey Tyreplug,

We're going to be at Farnborough as things stand at the moment. So we'll likely see you there. Are you currently flying with Flybe then?! If so how are you finding it?!?

I'm very excited and can't wait to get stuck in just wish I could do some learning now to occupy some of my spare time!! If only i had a copy of that OPS manual!! He he!

I sound like a swat!!

Taiguin

[Maude Charlee]

You'd be wasting your time reading the Ops manual as the current flood of NOTACs mean that it changes almost once a week.

lol



Good place to get started and lots of enjoyable flying. The 400 is a beast at first, but great fun once you get to grips with it. Just chill and enjoy the moment.

Welcome to the family.

[Taiguin]

Hey Maude,

Thanks mate...really eager to get stuck in and i think the Dash 8 is the perfect aircraft to get my teeth into. Gonna relax over christmas since it'll probably be the last one i have off depending on my roster of course!

Talking of which is there any chance you could possibly PM me a month's roster? I was told it would be 5 and 2, 5 and 3, but there was no mention of it in the contract so i don't know for definate. Is there much opportunity for overtime too and do you get paid extra for working some of your days off?! The sooner i can get this training loan paid and my hours up the better!

Any info would be wicked...

Taiguin

[Chesty Morgan]

Taigun, there's no such thing as overtime. You do get flight pay per hour though. Day off payments are 1.5 x standard daily rate plus flight pay. The roster is usually 5/2, 5/2, 5/2, 5/3 (ish)! Like MC says, forget the OPS manualy really and concentrate on the Memory items and cockpit flows, that'll do you to start with.

I'm on my OPC early January so likely see you there

Good luck.

Maude - What's a NOTAC?

[Craggenmore]

The roster is usually 5/2, 5/2, 5/2

Ouch

Maude Charlee,

I saw your new Embraer today on the ramp at GVA. Lovely looking aircraft. Who gets to fly it first?

[steven938]

Flybe Interviews & Training

Hi to all you potential Flybe wannabe's. I work at the FlightSafety simulator complex at Farnborough and should you be lucky enough to get an interview or take the initial on the Dash 8 Q400 you'll be visiting us here. Interviews will be in the Beech 1900D or Saab 340B depending on availability and the Q400 sim is running 20 hrs a day 7 days a week.

Remember to say hi to the techs too. You fly these things for fun. We fly them for a living. LOL.

Steve

[Taiguin]

Hey Steven,

I guess we'll see you down there in January then. From what i saw at the assessment day it seems a very good set-up. The ride in the Beech 1900D was my first full motion sim but at first nobody told me to shut my eyes when they reposition you back to the threshold.... I know for next time now!!

Roster of 5/2 5/2 does sound interesting!! Best not tell the g'friend!! Lol

Taiguin

[Maude Charlee]

Originally Posted by Taiguin

Hey Maude,
Thanks mate...really eager to get stuck in and i think the Dash 8 is the perfect aircraft to get my teeth into. Gonna relax over christmas since it'll probably be the last one i have off depending on my roster of course!
Talking of which is there any chance you could possibly PM me a month's roster? I was told it would be 5 and 2, 5 and 3, but there was no mention of it in the contract so i don't know for definate. Is there much opportunity for overtime too and do you get paid extra for working some of your days off?! The sooner i can get this training loan paid and my hours up the better!
Any info would be wicked...
Taiguin

Day off payments for an FO work out at something like £150 apparently (Chesty's formula is like many parts of our T's and C's designed to ensure you are baffled as to what you are entitled to ). As for the roster, it largely depends on base. Some have a more stable working pattern than others, but wherever you are, there is no fixed roster.

The company has promised to address the issue as lifestyle is the biggest bugbear amongst crews, and the primary reason folk leave. Rostering will try to ensure it works out at 5/2, 5/2 but you may work 4/1, 6/3 or any other wierd and wonderful combinations. Your week will always start with an early duty and finish on a late. Again, specifics depend on base - in Birmingham earlies are the long shifts (either 4 or 5 sectors with a start around 0600 and finish 1400 or later) and late shifts finish around 2200, whereas somewhere like Belfast, lates are the long day with 6 sectors (1130 - 2100ish) but earlies finishing by lunch.

I enjoy it here, but then again I was dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child.

[Maude Charlee]

Originally Posted by Craggenmore

Ouch
Maude Charlee,
I saw your new Embraer today on the ramp at GVA. Lovely looking aircraft. Who gets to fly it first?

Yeah, she's a fairly nice looking bird. First dibs goes to existing 146 crews, and as far as I am aware, strictly by seniority.

No chance of a direct entry to it as a newbie FO, nor from the Q400 as things stand. Obviously once the 14sick has been retired, things will change.

[endofeng]

MC,

There are lots of guys moving from RHS Q400 to RHS EMB195....

Problem is you will more than likely have to move base, and yes it does go off seniority. Some guys I know have been with the company less than 2 yrs and getting the EMB.

Good Luck to all!

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endofeng

[ToneTheWone]

Dear Taquin

Well done on getting the job with Flybe. I was ammused by your quote of:-

"The sooner I can get this training loan paid and my hours up the better!"

Does this mean that you're looking to leave already??

No offence meant and have fun.

ToneTheWone

[papazulu]

News after BACon/FlyBE merge...?

Hello gents

I wonder if any of the insiders of both parties (Maudee Charlee & C.) have a snif of what's going on with the last recruitment run...Everything frozen till merge/crew relocation is completed or ...what?

FlyBE seems not longer be one of the wannabes favourite topics since the acquisition of BACon was announced...

PZ

[Jinkster]

did anyone actually hear anything back from flybe?

Perf groups - if you did the JAA ATPLs you will have done Perf A and correct me if im wrong cover all the rest.

Good luck!

[Taiguin]

Perf Subjects are Flight Planning, AC Perf, & Mass & Balance. They want to know your marks for these i think although i'm not 100% sure. Hope this helps mate,

Taiguin

[speedrestriction]

It sounds like it might be a hangover from pre JAA exam days where you had to do a separate exam for the different performance categories. High time to update the paperwork

sr.

[Maude Charlee]

Originally Posted by transitionlevel

........if the applications are screened by computer in exeter before a real person gets to see them, which fields would see your application binned before it got through the computer screening?

The flight ops admin department wishes there was a computer that screens them all.

All done by hand you may be shocked to learn.

Only reason we have an app form anyway is because BACON use it (and guess where all the management involved came from?), hence why it is completely and utterly unsuited to it's purpose. It wasn't designed specifically for flybe, it was simply copied from another airline, where it was already out of date and poorly designed.

Just keep firing in the applications and hope for the best.

[papazulu]

Originally Posted by transitionlevel

MC, you seem to know a little about the whole process...

May I associate a question myself? I might need to change some items in my AF since I am about to relocate so I wonder who and how to get in touch with to submit any changes. It seem pointless to fill another AF, ain't?

Regards

PZ

[expedite08]

Flybe Recruitment (not BACON related!!)

Hi all,

Does anyone have some productive info on Flybe's current and forseeable recruiting requirements? Eg time from applying to being called forward to interview/assessment etc. And just general info about the process.

Would apprecite anything anyone has (productive please!). Im not interested in the BACON debate.

Feel freeto PM

Cheers

Expedite

[GusHoneybun]

Applied online last october, got a call last week asking if I still wanted an interview.

[ramshorn]

New Flybe online application

Hi all.
I'm just filling out the new Flybe online application and i'm trying to enter my flying hours.
Where should I put my dual(training)hours in each section.
I guess its not P2 and the only other option is P1/S??

Cheers