Why pilots are smarter than the operators!
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Why pilots are smarter than the operators!
I have recently had management (read imbeciles) at my pretend airline making life unnecessarily hard for the pilots yet again. I realise that it will just be a matter of time before the pilots compensate, usually at the company’s expense.
It has just got me reminiscing and smiling again.
I remember this one operator who required us pilots to rent 1 of 6 rooms from a property that they were renting them selves. That was the condition of employment at the time. $100/wk for a cell with one toilet to share. The operator was collecting $600/wk for a $250/wk property. That was just the tip of the exploitation iceberg.
We compensated by reducing our power bills quite substantially. Each room did have a separate power meter, but so did the common room which powered the tiny fridges. The power for the common room was paid for by the operator. Knowing this, we all bought extension cords and power boards. We ran all our aircons, tvs, whatever for free and just paid to run the lights. The funny thing is that the operator couldn’t work out why the common room power bill was so high. They also couldn’t work out why the fuel burns (ie fuel from browser) were more on the weekend when they were away. Classic. 
I also remember another operator who did quite a bit of back charter. It was asked at a meeting if the pilots who organised and flew the back charter would get a 10% cut. Not surprisingly the operator said no.
Soon after any recorded back charter stopped completely. The idiots could have had 90% and ended up with 0%. Pilots with 100%.
I would love to here any other stories of passively getting back at immoral operators.
It has just got me reminiscing and smiling again.
I remember this one operator who required us pilots to rent 1 of 6 rooms from a property that they were renting them selves. That was the condition of employment at the time. $100/wk for a cell with one toilet to share. The operator was collecting $600/wk for a $250/wk property. That was just the tip of the exploitation iceberg.
We compensated by reducing our power bills quite substantially. Each room did have a separate power meter, but so did the common room which powered the tiny fridges. The power for the common room was paid for by the operator. Knowing this, we all bought extension cords and power boards. We ran all our aircons, tvs, whatever for free and just paid to run the lights. The funny thing is that the operator couldn’t work out why the common room power bill was so high. They also couldn’t work out why the fuel burns (ie fuel from browser) were more on the weekend when they were away. Classic. I also remember another operator who did quite a bit of back charter. It was asked at a meeting if the pilots who organised and flew the back charter would get a 10% cut. Not surprisingly the operator said no.
Soon after any recorded back charter stopped completely. The idiots could have had 90% and ended up with 0%. Pilots with 100%. I would love to here any other stories of passively getting back at immoral operators.
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Many moons ago, when there was little in the way of security or reporting and Hobbs meters were not universal, a certain Aztec operator used to screw his drivers. He also wanted them to fiddle the maintenance logs by disconnecting one tacho for 50 hours, reconnecting it and disconnecting the other for 50 hours etc so that he could get 200 hours revenue for 100 of maintenance cost. This was in a very remote area a long way from head office, where he swanned about in flash sportscars with peroxided girlfriends. Meantime his pilots sweated it, washing the old Aztec down, changing the oil, hustling for business, sleeping rough most of the time and enjoying very little in the way of female company, so there wasn't much chance of a surprise visit. It didn't take pilots long to figure that if they paid cash at the bowser for 20% of the week's fuel, they could run another 20% of cash-only business with certain trusted locals taking them to their favorite fishing spots and have a good time on their one day off each week.
When stuff like tyres and brakes got really worn out from lobbing in to those short beach strips he musta thought it a fair price to pay for his own fiddling because he never found out what was really going on.
When stuff like tyres and brakes got really worn out from lobbing in to those short beach strips he musta thought it a fair price to pay for his own fiddling because he never found out what was really going on.
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Ah yes Apache; It tasted like no other from any other pub!!
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Originally Posted by Chief Wiggam
I remember this one operator who required us pilots to rent 1 of 6 rooms from a property that they were renting them selves. That was the condition of employment at the time. $100/wk for a cell with one toilet to share. The operator was collecting $600/wk for a $250/wk property.
Cheers, HH.
