rfdswa cant get pilots
I saw the ad too.
Wow if i had the hours id love to work for a company like RFDS (WA) i think itd be great.
Whats the conditions/pay like?
Wonder if only 1 person with low hours had applied wonder if they would get the position?
Wow if i had the hours id love to work for a company like RFDS (WA) i think itd be great.
Whats the conditions/pay like?
Wonder if only 1 person with low hours had applied wonder if they would get the position?
the tables are starting to turn in our favour boys and girls.
why would anyone want to go live in meeka and get broken into on a regular basis when there are better options to choose from.
what i see now is lots of movement, however the pay and conditions are still poor (includes regionals like skippers and network). i wonder if its going to get to the point where operators such as the above are going to have to offer their pilots more money to stay instead of leaving at the first chance they get.
why would anyone want to go live in meeka and get broken into on a regular basis when there are better options to choose from.
what i see now is lots of movement, however the pay and conditions are still poor (includes regionals like skippers and network). i wonder if its going to get to the point where operators such as the above are going to have to offer their pilots more money to stay instead of leaving at the first chance they get.
Mining companies can get people to work in remote areas, including highly skilled people. Prehaps the fact that they pay them properly has something to do with it. RFDS flying is demanding work; bush strips, emergency call outs, single pilot IFR at night in the wet season.
This is not an entry level job, they quite correctly want someone with experience under their belt, yet expect to pay them less than the flight nurse.
$65 000/year might get a cleaner or kitchen hand on a mine site.
This is not an entry level job, they quite correctly want someone with experience under their belt, yet expect to pay them less than the flight nurse.
$65 000/year might get a cleaner or kitchen hand on a mine site.
Seasonally Adjusted
Mining companies can get people to work in remote areas
Silly Old Git
What can yer say about a place when allegedly the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was checking to see if there had been any breaches of human rights by Australia for keeping asylum seekers in Port Hedland ?
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Id want $100k pa up front just to move there.
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Id want $100k pa up front just to move there.
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Are there any present or past RFDS pilots out there that can fill us in on the actual conditions in Meekatharra, would you take your family there for instance? Is there a primary school there? PM is fine 
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There is a high school in Meeka but no white kids attends or I dont think most of the black kids attend as well.
Town population is around 600 and shrinking.
One general store and 3 pubs, post office, shire with pool and library.
out door picture theatre, golf course and public park with tennis courts.
If you can think of remote living for 2 yrs, then you will survive.
The rfds only want you for 2 yrs, good chance for another base when a slot comes up.
Clean town but has it problems with some of the locals but the staff that are here make the best of it with social gatherings
Town population is around 600 and shrinking.
One general store and 3 pubs, post office, shire with pool and library.
out door picture theatre, golf course and public park with tennis courts.
If you can think of remote living for 2 yrs, then you will survive.
The rfds only want you for 2 yrs, good chance for another base when a slot comes up.
Clean town but has it problems with some of the locals but the staff that are here make the best of it with social gatherings
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I would have thought that the hour requirments for RFDS are just too great - anyone with those hours are flying shiny planes with hosties and nice hotels/home at night.
Also, I wonder how much impact the PC12 has had - not as much twin time, so not as attractive?
Right now I'd be there in a flash, but just don't have the hours, and when i do have 2000/1000, I'll probably be somewhere else anyway.
Also, I wonder how much impact the PC12 has had - not as much twin time, so not as attractive?
Right now I'd be there in a flash, but just don't have the hours, and when i do have 2000/1000, I'll probably be somewhere else anyway.
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People in controll of a lolly pop sign on the road works get paid over a 100k a year these days aviation has lost sight of whats happening in the real world
About time things changed!!
About time things changed!!
flash2sqn and others (as 'air med' stated) Meeka has a school that starts at kindy upto year 10 high school. I think when I was there my son (in kindy at the time) was one of nine non-indigenous children and the truancy rate of the indigenous children was unbelievable.
Meeka also had 'school of the air' and most local non-indigenous families were home schooling with 'school of the air' support, unfortunately the 'school of the air' facility was burnt down recently and I believe all services have been moved to Geraldton.
Personally I wouldn't regard Meeka as remote, it is on a main highway 800km from Perth and about 600km from the coast. However it does have a lot of problems, the break-in and vandalism rate is huge and the price of ordinary grocery items is exorbitant. With the advent of fly-in/fly-out for the mines, towns like Meeka are dying and consequently the services once available are disappearing.
As air med was saying if you could hack it for 2 years and you don't have a family maybe you could rack up some good hrs/experience and then move on to a better basing or bigger and better things!!??
Meeka also had 'school of the air' and most local non-indigenous families were home schooling with 'school of the air' support, unfortunately the 'school of the air' facility was burnt down recently and I believe all services have been moved to Geraldton.
Personally I wouldn't regard Meeka as remote, it is on a main highway 800km from Perth and about 600km from the coast. However it does have a lot of problems, the break-in and vandalism rate is huge and the price of ordinary grocery items is exorbitant. With the advent of fly-in/fly-out for the mines, towns like Meeka are dying and consequently the services once available are disappearing.
As air med was saying if you could hack it for 2 years and you don't have a family maybe you could rack up some good hrs/experience and then move on to a better basing or bigger and better things!!??
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The mines out in the middle of no where have nothing to do with why there is a base at Meekatharra, it was placed there so flights from Derby and Port Hedland can do meets there and then go back, without having to go all the way to JT and spend the night there, but as crews know this doesnt turn out that way all the time.
Geraldton is to close to JT only being 50min away.
Another reason why Meeka is that the big property owners and lease holders wanted a service and a hospitial close by, meeka has a hospitial run by RFDS doctors.
Geraldton is to close to JT only being 50min away.
Another reason why Meeka is that the big property owners and lease holders wanted a service and a hospitial close by, meeka has a hospitial run by RFDS doctors.
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good day sarcs hows it going up there?????.
Continueing on with the post,True not remote and can get away every 5 weeks for 3 days to do other things, main road in and out of town, no need for 4 wheel drives but we have them.
True prices on items are high,but must give praise to the new owners of FJ's as they are trying to keep prices down, the problem is that you cant expect a small store to be stocked out like one in perth.
I am sure sarc's will state we do have some good social nights.
Continueing on with the post,True not remote and can get away every 5 weeks for 3 days to do other things, main road in and out of town, no need for 4 wheel drives but we have them.
True prices on items are high,but must give praise to the new owners of FJ's as they are trying to keep prices down, the problem is that you cant expect a small store to be stocked out like one in perth.
I am sure sarc's will state we do have some good social nights.
