Flight deck positions at FlyDubai Master Thread - Merged
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Chaps,
you are not allowing for the fact that approx 50% of the first 150 pilots are furloughed/un-paid leave.
slight flaws in the maths, when the training bond expires and they decide to call it a day.
you are not allowing for the fact that approx 50% of the first 150 pilots are furloughed/un-paid leave.
slight flaws in the maths, when the training bond expires and they decide to call it a day.
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Maybe the math is not correct , but for having a chat about it with some of the guys concerned ( and most of them are or were F/Os ) between going back to their previous company on the right seat for years and years with a lower pay and staying here on the left or with the prospective to be on the left soon... most of them told me that they were not in a hurry to go back home...
Again , we will see only time will tell.
Again , we will see only time will tell.
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FO Seat lock
It doesn't take much to "delay" upgrades without that word "seat lock", but the truth is about to hit that any outside DEC is now going to come from a non-NG or non-737 type!!!! So you will need a completely new formula to work out the upgrade for existing FOs! Who do you think will be the real insight into KTM or KBL or Russia in the winter? I would stab a guess at 2years right now and when you factor in the quiv 3000hrs or max 5yrs at EK then it holds no comparison! The FOs will leave much quicker than the capts! It's actually more beneficial to fly capt with capt than lose the knowledge of good guys! Let's see! We have reached the 2yr point and will start to see people migrate as they start interviews with other ME carriers now that their poaching period has expired!!!!
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Math questions
They are very simple college questions. Things like whether expressions are polynomials or not, if not re-write in standard form. Then simplify with rational exponents (mostly without using negatives so it makes like more interesting).
If you want to pass with the idiot sticker then study "ace the pilot technical interview"
If you want to pass with the idiot sticker then study "ace the pilot technical interview"
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maths questions
I did the assessment, in CTC, there are NO maths questions. It is a funny sort of test but no maths questions. But then its a funny sort of airline. The day I did at CTC rejected some two thirds of our course. In my humble opinion some good, experienced guys. The Dubai interview is a bit of a joke, they get you out there for a 40 minute interview, "take me through your background" and "tell me about a time when someone didn't agree with you"!? and a medical. In all about an hours worth, packed into a day, add travel time, it takes a while.
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Hazy 85,
Don't believe all you read here on that website.
People do get hired , if not , we would not be able to keep our 18 aircraft flying days and nights with more coming in the following months.
But it is natural that , when people went through the recruitment process and are not hired , they get sometime upset and make comments that are not really true...
But what is true is that the number of people getting hired compared to the number of people going through the selection is maybe less than in other low cost airlines...
Don't believe all you read here on that website.
People do get hired , if not , we would not be able to keep our 18 aircraft flying days and nights with more coming in the following months.
But it is natural that , when people went through the recruitment process and are not hired , they get sometime upset and make comments that are not really true...
But what is true is that the number of people getting hired compared to the number of people going through the selection is maybe less than in other low cost airlines...
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flydubai's website quotes 'headline' figures that are based upon someone flying 80 block hours per month and are figures designed to attract the gullible.
The reality is that many F/O's are doing only 50 - 60 block hours per month and so the monthly figure, for F/O's, quoted on flydubai's website should be reduced by 2,000 Dhs - 3,000 Dhs.
Do the math!
The reality is that many F/O's are doing only 50 - 60 block hours per month and so the monthly figure, for F/O's, quoted on flydubai's website should be reduced by 2,000 Dhs - 3,000 Dhs.
Do the math!
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I am sorry , but this is not quite correct.
I have been talking with other F/Os and they told me they were flying around 75-80 hours a month , some of them even reaching more than 95 hours.
What you should look at is the total hours flown in 12 months and I can tell you that most of us are around the 870+ hours...
The problem is that the rostering is not consistent and you will be flying 60 hours one month and the next one you may be flying 95 hours
I have been talking with other F/Os and they told me they were flying around 75-80 hours a month , some of them even reaching more than 95 hours.
What you should look at is the total hours flown in 12 months and I can tell you that most of us are around the 870+ hours...
The problem is that the rostering is not consistent and you will be flying 60 hours one month and the next one you may be flying 95 hours