DEC 777, when?
 

Does anybody know when will start to call to DEC 777 in Emirates? Type rated or Not Type rated.


Thanks

Lowered requirements.. and the so called claims made here on "pilot shortage".. and yet 2 of my ex colleagues got turned down for the interview and assessment, both from the United States. :rolleyes:

Indigo had incidents too
 

Incidents like fire etc cant be blamed to the crew.. Infact they were real professional pilots.. But in indigo there is lot of back door entry and many incidents which usually don't make to headlines cuz of the kind of money and connections they have..for example

On 11 January 2011, Flight 333, piloted by Captain Parminder Kaur Gulati, landed nose-first at Goa International Airport, damaging the landing gear and putting the aircraft at risk of disintegration. Prior to the landing, the captain had caused the aircraft to descend too steeply, against the recommendations of aircraft manufacturer Airbus.[43] It was later discovered that the captain used forged papers to obtain an air transport pilot license (ATPL), after failing the test as many as seven times.[citation needed] She had also flown the return flight back to New Delhi when the aircraft's systems showed problems with the landing gear.[44]

..and if I ever go to India..I'll use trains rest assured.

Hello there.

Have any tp guys been hired to Emirates, 5000 hours right seat Fokker 50, EASA ATPL english L6, wondering if it is a waste og time to apply?

If you think it's a waste of time , don't apply There is always someone to take your place.

@camelruster

Korean, really? That's the company you choose as a airline for top pilots? I just heard horror stories about this :mad:. And it is not because of their high flying standards(they proofed otherwise already in real flying).

Korean....:oh:


@1975

I would suggest that you go for it. You are fulfilling the requirements. L6 is as well no disadvantage.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, I am asking if they are or are planning to hire tp guys, or if it is just a game. Is the demand so high for new pilots that it is necessary?

According to the jungle drums this is something what will change in the foreseeable future.

As you wrote, they are desperate....

@1975

Sorry to disappoint you.


Well, fill out that form(as all of us did), invest 1 hour of your life and you will see if they put you in the holding pool. I went in there within 48 hrs, some widebody command on a old widebody, rest lots of command on medium jet. Plus 3000 FO medium jet. With that eperience I was for a while unsuitable to be a FO with EK, now it went down and I tried.

So, give it a shot. If not, then maybe anyway this company might be the wrong thing for you(never met someone who bothered filling out a application).


Regarding the EK interview. Well, I did it early 2000 already once(and yes, I did pass) but then decided to stick with my good old european airline. Unfortunately a bit later they folded(spare me the irony) and I had to start a very unpleasant journey through different airlines/operators. Eventually I ended up with QR which was probably the worst what could happen to me and I left them after a bit.

Comparing the old EK interview with QR there was not much of a difference, QR looked a bit less in CRM group plays. Sim in both was easy, most likely the easiest point in both interviews. The old EK (andQR) interview was not very hard, point.

I am curious if I will make it again if called in, it seems it changed a lot and requires actually some kind of preparation(as most interviews need nowadays).

I understand the need of the old guys to point out that their interview was much harder(it's just a human thing to show off to that newbees, right?) and that the new guys should just consider themself lucky that the requirements have been lowered that much over the past few years.

Well, no.

I did a lot of interviews and of course times change, so do the requirements. Sometimes there is a pilot shortage, sometimes the market was flooded with recruits. My first company changed their requirements all the time(as EK is doing it right now and over the past few years), sometimes you just needed to be able to piss in a straight line to join, then again they wanted university qualification, later that dropped again. A lot of other airlines did the same, it called adapting to the market. Of course, with that strategy, you have pilots with very different skill levels within the company.

I can understand that someone doing the same thing for 14 years(post, previous page) is tired of it. I am tired of my current employer doing a thing for a while now and we got tons(!!) of applications, at least that's what we hear on every official meeting with HR. See, it is everywhere the same. Take it or leave it(which seems as well the motto of my current employer). The market will regulate it(but unfortunately we got already to many of this P2Fly kids around everywhere).

I applied and within 2 hours went from short listed to an interview date.

at one stage EK has to come up with overseas bases, they can't lower the requirements further to fill the cockpit, as soon as one of the other ME carriers does it they are screwed

@GoreTex

This discussion exists since the early 2000's(maybe even before).

The problem with introducing overseas bases(Europe/US/Asia) is that most likely EVERY pilot want'S to have one of this bases and you create war within the company.

The old guys insist on "grandfather rights" to have this new opened bases, the new joiners would only join if such a base is guaranteed....

Over all, I don't think that would work and the ME carriers know about that.

Unfortunately the bloody pilot bunch(us :)) is a very strange group of professionals. Very greedy, always want to have the better deal, then still complain about it and looking for even greener places to go.
Simply nobody really can please the majority of us - that's my experience of nearly 30 years of airline business and somehow I even slowly understand some management point of view about our workgroup(the pilot "haters").

Thanks for the reply and advice