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Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Mar 2024, 01:42
Replies: 63
Views: 19,521
Posted By Gnadenburg

There’s a cost of living crisis mate! Have a...

There’s a cost of living crisis mate! Have a little empathy.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
24th Mar 2024, 20:26
Replies: 3,097
Views: 1,282,259
Posted By Gnadenburg

So hardly gloomy? The USA is still experiencing...

So hardly gloomy? The USA is still experiencing an unabated pilot hiring tsunami!

I jump seated with UA yesterday and I was sure to remind the crew, that many Australians wish them well in their...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
18th Mar 2024, 00:48
Replies: 118
Views: 115,179
Posted By Gnadenburg

There’s a bunch of people on the hold file for...

There’s a bunch of people on the hold file for DEC, so unless you know people on the inside or within the QF hiring apparatus, be careful quitting a current job for EFA. They were accepted onto the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Mar 2024, 14:42
Replies: 59
Views: 11,170
Posted By Gnadenburg

If you’ve been an airline pilot for the last 20...

If you’ve been an airline pilot for the last 20 or so years you’ve had all of these so called divisive investment opportunities available to you. Are you funding your own retirement or are you going...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
15th Mar 2024, 05:54
Replies: 6
Views: 2,529
Posted By Gnadenburg

Kiwis love to bag Australia but any scent of...

Kiwis love to bag Australia but any scent of economic opportunity here and they are onto it. And they righteously sit on the fence with the US but here’s an opportunity you want too?Nope. E3’s are...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
15th Mar 2024, 03:16
Replies: 59
Views: 11,170
Posted By Gnadenburg

Wow! That’s the uptight Aussie attitude I was...

Wow! That’s the uptight Aussie attitude I was talking about.

Letting US service personnel onto the aircraft is actually a gesture from commercial entities. It’s not politically commanded. I prefer...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Mar 2024, 08:09
Replies: 59
Views: 11,170
Posted By Gnadenburg

Spending a lot of time in US airports I thinks...

Spending a lot of time in US airports I thinks it’s kind of neat. There aren’t dogs everywhere and they are well behaved. I’m sure if you had a mongrel you wouldn’t embarrass yourself and take it on...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
6th Mar 2024, 16:14
Replies: 320
Views: 163,710
Posted By Gnadenburg

Actually, 30 years later in 2000, you still had a...

Actually, 30 years later in 2000, you still had a wonderful lifestyle and good pay in Ansett and Qantas.

Then Virgin Blue came along, pilots started paying for their endorsements and angry 89ers...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
22nd Feb 2024, 08:52
Replies: 3,097
Views: 1,282,259
Posted By Gnadenburg

Atlas, National and Kalitta are still doing E3’s?...

Atlas, National and Kalitta are still doing E3’s?

If there’s a whiff of non-E3 renewals there will be an exodus out of some of the carriers that may actually need Australian pilots. Well, need...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Feb 2024, 01:39
Replies: 1,549
Views: 536,154
Posted By Gnadenburg

Trouble being, they return to Australia, thinking...

Trouble being, they return to Australia, thinking domestic flying will be something like the Ansett days. Seeing that in reality, the glory days of domestic flying are now somewhere between GA and...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Feb 2024, 03:09
Replies: 3,097
Views: 1,282,259
Posted By Gnadenburg

Evidently, Kalitta is hiring E3’s again. It’s...

Evidently, Kalitta is hiring E3’s again. It’s guaranteed 14 days off, which I don’t think is contractual anywhere else? A new contract is due in the next few months. This could bump Kalitta up the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd Feb 2024, 16:57
Replies: 81
Views: 32,504
Posted By Gnadenburg

Could be true. Local Australian pilots have a...

Could be true. Local Australian pilots have a cheap mindset and are slaves to a mortgage. A sound industrial move by the former slave traders to secure human capital.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Jan 2024, 23:49
Replies: 4,446
Views: 3,711,987
Posted By Gnadenburg

The testing is a joke. So many cheat. You have to...

The testing is a joke. So many cheat. You have to scoff at those that wear a badge- “ I did the QF selection process and am better than everyone else.”

You ain’t particularly special. And they’ll...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Oct 2023, 20:38
Replies: 1,578
Views: 497,441
Posted By Gnadenburg

Don’t be derisive. I’m just offering a small...

Don’t be derisive. I’m just offering a small measure of support. I’ve heard a number of Network guys have left or are in the process of leaving and felt obliged to mention another opportunity. Which...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Oct 2023, 23:01
Replies: 1,578
Views: 497,441
Posted By Gnadenburg

I made a fortune out of aviation and now I do it...

I made a fortune out of aviation and now I do it for fun. I’d just like to thank all those along journey that muscled the likes of yourself out of the way. It must have been difficult.

Again,...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
2nd Oct 2023, 10:13
Replies: 1,578
Views: 497,441
Posted By Gnadenburg

Didn’t take the Kiwis long to smell hollow...

Didn’t take the Kiwis long to smell hollow opportunity.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
11th Sep 2023, 02:31
Replies: 4,446
Views: 3,711,987
Posted By Gnadenburg

Just cheat like so many! You can pay experts to...

Just cheat like so many! You can pay experts to do the testing or have a smart friend sit in.

If it wasn’t so hilarious and the job not so important, it would probably peeve those of us who...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
11th Aug 2023, 23:53
Replies: 52
Views: 35,826
Posted By Gnadenburg

Your tax position can be comfortably different to...

Your tax position can be comfortably different to the next bloke doing the same job abroad. Residency is elaborate and couch surfing stateside may be high risk if commuting. A number of Hong Kong...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
11th Aug 2023, 00:19
Replies: 52
Views: 35,826
Posted By Gnadenburg

I’m pleased this thread moved on from a few days...

I’m pleased this thread moved on from a few days ago, where the Oztronaut mentality was happy to kick an own goal with supply and demand of pilots in this country.

I have to ask but WTF would you...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Aug 2023, 21:23
Replies: 463
Views: 473,070
Posted By Gnadenburg

Yeah hopefully it’s good enough to keep you...

Yeah hopefully it’s good enough to keep you blokes home. Overseas with the impending pilot shortage, there are murmurs that Kiwis will soon arrive in plague-proportions again.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Aug 2023, 21:17
Replies: 4,446
Views: 3,711,987
Posted By Gnadenburg

My airline in the US can’t retain pilots so it’s...

My airline in the US can’t retain pilots so it’s full pay from day one. Wouldn’t have gone otherwise.

Incidentally, when I started flying airlines at Ansett, full pay plus $2000 cash. Middle East...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
5th Aug 2023, 02:31
Replies: 3,097
Views: 1,282,259
Posted By Gnadenburg

I sometimes politely remind my esteemed US...

I sometimes politely remind my esteemed US colleagues that 5% of my Captains, as a new hire into Australia’s premier domestic airline circa 1993, were US citizens.

Reception has been fine. I...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Jul 2023, 02:52
Replies: 295
Views: 98,989
Posted By Gnadenburg

The grim reality is Australian jet operators are...

The grim reality is Australian jet operators are learning to live with attrition versus delivering an attractive COS that keeps pilots. Has there been a time in our history where pilots have left in...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
25th Jul 2023, 01:05
Replies: 5
Views: 2,166
Posted By Gnadenburg

Geez you blokes must have had a heart attack when...

Geez you blokes must have had a heart attack when looking at the AUKUS submarine program if you aren’t aware of defence life-cycle and procurement costing?

Some big-balls missions for the possible...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Jul 2023, 23:55
Replies: 295
Views: 98,989
Posted By Gnadenburg

That’s funny! Since the demise of Ansett, it’s...

That’s funny! Since the demise of Ansett, it’s been embarrassed Aussie pilots fattening up their annual salaries by quoting compulsory super contributions and per diem.

Airline pilot wages can be...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
10th May 2023, 14:32
Replies: 4,446
Views: 3,711,987
Posted By Gnadenburg

How do you take this QF Group testing seriously...

How do you take this QF Group testing seriously and credibly when we all know plenty of pilots who cheated with the process? Ranting about merit, fairness and a brilliance of those who got through...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
20th Apr 2023, 00:25
Replies: 687
Views: 366,820
Posted By Gnadenburg

Good decision. From a pilot perspective, the near...

Good decision. From a pilot perspective, the near complete monopoly of airline careers QF would have had with a takeover was not right. We have already seen paranoid pilots resigning from Alliance to...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
13th Apr 2023, 11:05
Replies: 159
Views: 71,655
Posted By Gnadenburg

Did Virgin ever become a great airline? Certainly...

Did Virgin ever become a great airline? Certainly started in cringeworthy fashion.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Apr 2023, 00:09
Replies: 3,097
Views: 1,282,259
Posted By Gnadenburg

Hang on. We all should be averse to Oztronauts...

Hang on. We all should be averse to Oztronauts but they aren’t typical of the Australians I know venturing Stateside.

I often thought it a mental illness when and Australian pilot, say out of a...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
25th Mar 2023, 23:08
Replies: 3,097
Views: 1,282,259
Posted By Gnadenburg

How about we keep this thread informative and...

How about we keep this thread informative and balanced, where we understand every pilot has different ambitions, financial positions, outlooks and goals?

Many will go to the US and return. I’ve...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Mar 2023, 01:57
Replies: 1,602
Views: 360,297
Posted By Gnadenburg

The UK actually becomes an Indo-Pacific player...

The UK actually becomes an Indo-Pacific player with minimal investment.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
12th Mar 2023, 22:39
Replies: 3,097
Views: 1,282,259
Posted By Gnadenburg

The American Dream, for pilots anyways, appears...

The American Dream, for pilots anyways, appears very real. Even with a looming world-wide pilot shortage it’s hard to see Australian T&C’s improving significantly. I can’t finish up a career in...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Mar 2023, 09:10
Replies: 144
Views: 41,003
Posted By Gnadenburg

They probably just like flying aeroplanes and...

They probably just like flying aeroplanes and whilst financially secure, the industry may have a different perspective to what an Aussie mortgage battler may be experiencing and aspiring for.

I...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
10th Feb 2023, 19:32
Replies: 4,446
Views: 3,711,987
Posted By Gnadenburg

What happens when QF buys another airline? More...

What happens when QF buys another airline? More expectations to meet to avoid expensive and crippling rates of pilot attrition. Is this model of career progression sustainable? As an outsider...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
1st Feb 2023, 22:23
Replies: 42
Views: 20,230
Posted By Gnadenburg

Thoroughly deserved if true! I can’t believe the...

Thoroughly deserved if true! I can’t believe the state of the game now, having left when Ansett collapsed and returning during COVID.
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