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Talking to a GFS instructor just a few weeks ago who was about to front for a Qantas mainline interview in Sydney. If successful the job would be on the 747. I suggested it would be worthwhile to keep his professional knowledge up to date by reading selected Pprune forums; in particular Tech Log and the main British forum Rumours and News where one can read excellent discussions on technical matters applicable to heavy jets and links to accident reports.
Imagine my surprise when he said GFS had warned their staff against reading Pprune forums. If that is true, it is a great pity because some Pprune forums can open up a whole new world of technical knowledge that pilots would be wise to absorb.
Imagine my surprise when he said GFS had warned their staff against reading Pprune forums. If that is true, it is a great pity because some Pprune forums can open up a whole new world of technical knowledge that pilots would be wise to absorb.
If successful the job would be on the 747
When it comes to aircraft type noone knows the hour or the day until you walk into the building on day one. At the moment I'd highly doubt he will be going onto the 744. Probably some version of the sidestick machine.
Unfortunately for most Australian aviators PPRUNE is nothing more than a aviators version of womans day, full of gossip, juicy rumours and gee ups, and many australians ignore the beneficial technical information provided on the other threads. Unfortunately this forum has degenerated into the lowest common denominator. My personal opinion is that is because the industry is so much tougher over here and people so insecure that they have to deride anyone who has a career path minutely different to theirs. For example just start up a cadet thread here and see what it becomes. Yet over in Europe everyone is a cadet.
So I'm guessing that the 'no pprune' policy is to protect the innocent and or stupid from getting led down the technical garden path by some professional windup merchant
