Etihad

[Airbusypilot]

Hello Fellow Aviators,

Any information about the hiring process with ETIHAD will be appreciated A330 CAP. Not current in type.
Happy Landings!

[Cyberbird]

Yeah, i guess they are DEFINITIVELY in bitter need for a few more &qualified (!) A 330/ 340 Skippers, if you read below, how they wrecked their own, brand-new A 340 at the delivery @ Toulose -
extremely embarrasing

> TALE OF THE MISHAP OF AN ARAB FLIGHT CREW
>
> Photos show total destruction of a $200 million aircraft,
> brand new off the assembly line.
>
> The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger
> airplane of the whole 340-series, sat in its hangar inToulouse, France
> without a single hour of airtime.
> Along came the skilled whole Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft
> Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as
> engine runups, prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi.
>
> The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then
> they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually
> empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they
> had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is.
>
> The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit
> because they had all 4 engines at full power. The aircraft
> computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not
> been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.)
>
> Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit
> breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the
> alarm. This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the
> air. The computers automatically released all the brakes
> and set the aircraft rocketing forward. The ADAT crew had no
> idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land
> with the brakes on.
> Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough
> to throttle back the engines from their max power setting,
> so the $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast
> barrier, totaling it. The extent of injuries to the crew is
> unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major
> media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was
> deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are
> starting to leak out. Airbus $200 million aircraft meets
> retaining wall and the wall wins....

Resumee: RTFM guys - or "read the Fu**ing Manual" first - for god's sake !!

[IRISHinUS]

I've been wondering about that incident since it happened. It did seem that there was a suspicious lack of information ... and now I see why.

[Joey Q]

re

wow.... that was not a rasist statement ...not at all!

[roll_over]

Well the article does say ADAT crew, not Etihad and the article seems less than impartial, but a costly example of when procedures are apparently not followed.

[NG_Kaptain]

This accident seems to come up with regularityYeah, i guess they are DEFINITIVELY in bitter need for a few more &qualified (!) A 330/ 340 Skippers, if you read below, how they wrecked their own, brand-new A 340 at the delivery @ Toulose -
extremely embarrasing

The photos came out in November 2007, there was never a cover up. No Etihad employees were onboard, was Airbus industries and ADAT staff doing the run up, the nationalities and religion where not relevant to the incident, only their incompetence was. So don't go and say that Etihad needs better A340/330 skippers. My experience here is that standards are very high in flight ops.

[saviboy]

was never a black out.
By the way, are you aware that you are posting in the MIDDLE EAST section?
your multiple references to the ethnical group of the crew seems "slightly" out of line (on this board or elsewhere), don't you think?

Airbusypilot, I am not certain but it seems that Etihad is only interested in current rated applicants at this time.
Additonnaly, It was told at the Miami roadshow a couple of weeks ago: no DEC interview before january.
good luck

[frankbama]

We were also told at the PHX rode show there will be no more DECs at this time.

[_FL600_]

Hmmm, something is really bad in here. Rotten smell. Seems like a cyber trash all the way from Sweeden!

As long as you work for them, then you really like them. I wonder how they still keep up with you! Unless you're one of those suck up's.