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Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
5th Apr 2024, 08:18
Replies: 68
Views: 22,392
Posted By Gas Chamber

What happened? Did treating highly skilled...

What happened?
Did treating highly skilled people like **** and paying them peanuts not work out?!
We’re closing airspace and towers because they can’t find staff now.
Travelling public might be...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Mar 2024, 01:01
Replies: 541
Views: 125,805
Posted By MickG0105

Only out by an order of magnitude so pretty much...

Only out by an order of magnitude so pretty much bang on the money by what passes for reporting these days.

Seems to follow the standard formula of taking one has-been (or wannabe, dealer's...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
27th Mar 2024, 06:40
Replies: 964
Views: 325,668
Posted By morno

Whilst I appreciate his willingness to report...

Whilst I appreciate his willingness to report Qantas’ issues, Michael needs to do a bit of fact checking on some of his stories.

For a start, the A330 with the engine failure the other night...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
21st Mar 2024, 22:16
Replies: 1,519
Views: 508,578
Posted By Gas Chamber

unfortunately QANTAS don’t have ANY spare crew or...

unfortunately QANTAS don’t have ANY spare crew or capacity. They barely have enough airworthy aircraft in mainline. Hell, they’ve even outsourced their own flight crew training.
QF management are...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
21st Mar 2024, 06:29
Replies: 4,428
Views: 3,684,352
Posted By Parrot Pilot

COVID didn’t vote up the B scale - pilots who...

COVID didn’t vote up the B scale - pilots who were scared of their own shadow and only cared about themselves did.

Still yet to find one in the wild though. It would appear that people who voted...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Mar 2024, 03:38
Replies: 541
Views: 125,805
Posted By MickG0105

WSPR aside, there's the Marchand-Blelly work that...

WSPR aside, there's the Marchand-Blelly work that also gets a run in the Mentour Pilot video. Notably, it too is not without some serious deficiencies.

Amongst those deficiencies is their...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Mar 2024, 03:34
Replies: 541
Views: 125,805
Posted By MickG0105

Ah, the man of the hour. To be fair,...

Ah, the man of the hour.


To be fair, since that criticism was first raised they have made some attempts to better fix the true locations of the transmitter and receiver antenna.

That said,...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Mar 2024, 09:04
Replies: 964
Views: 325,668
Posted By Big Silver Spoon

looks like the decor has been lifted straight out...

looks like the decor has been lifted straight out of the Qantas club.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Mar 2024, 05:32
Replies: 964
Views: 325,668
Posted By Chronic Snoozer

Even his dog can’t bear to look at him.

Even his dog can’t bear to look at him.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Mar 2024, 05:16
Replies: 964
Views: 325,668
Posted By Slippery_Pete

Imagine getting illegally sacked with 1700 of...

Imagine getting illegally sacked with 1700 of your hard working colleagues, then having to struggle to even put food on the table for your wife and kids - all the meanwhile, knowing your family’s...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Mar 2024, 21:04
Replies: 10
Views: 2,941
Posted By gordonfvckingramsay

As we already knew, what Qantas has been calling...

As we already knew, what Qantas has been calling a ‘pay freeze’ is a complete fallacy. The rate at which inflation has overtaken us means Qantas has successfully achieved a real world pay cut of a...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Mar 2024, 20:55
Replies: 10
Views: 2,941
Posted By directsosij

Little do they realise but airline management are...

Little do they realise but airline management are scoring an own goal. Already a significant pilot shortage, hundreds of new airframes on the way, overseas recruitment ramping up, new CPLs down, no...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Mar 2024, 09:54
Replies: 10
Views: 2,941
Posted By krismiler

Eighteen years ago I was driving a turboprop...

Eighteen years ago I was driving a turboprop around the east coast, pay was a bit over $50 000 a year and I bought a house for $220 000. The same job now pays a bit over $100 000 a year, but the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd Mar 2024, 02:47
Replies: 1,519
Views: 508,578
Posted By ddrwk

Why? Is it because no one could possibly have a...

Why? Is it because no one could possibly have a different point of view to you?

I don’t know who the reps are at AIPA, nor the AFAP or TWU, however they are all volunteering their time for the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
23rd Feb 2024, 02:54
Replies: 36
Views: 9,393
Posted By unobtanium

imagine removing all the duplicate's exec...

imagine removing all the duplicate's exec managers admin staff IT support safety department's etc etc etc for all the different business unit's all the cost saving's not to mention all the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
19th Feb 2024, 20:14
Replies: 83
Views: 32,426
Posted By framer

This is an important point for QF to understand....

This is an important point for QF to understand. I have very little hope that the decision makers will ever understand it though because there is nobody amongst them that has done it. No pilots or...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
18th Feb 2024, 09:35
Replies: 44
Views: 9,888
Posted By morno

I do it more because I want to spend time getting...

I do it more because I want to spend time getting coffee when I get there.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
31st Jan 2024, 17:52
Replies: 4,428
Views: 3,684,352
Posted By Climb150

How many times must this be explained? The...

How many times must this be explained?

The 1500 hours is because when you have experience you won't work for free.

It was more about getting pilots at regionals a living wage so they would not...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
30th Jan 2024, 05:20
Replies: 964
Views: 325,668
Posted By Slippery_Pete

I’ll happily tell them so they don’t need to pay...

I’ll happily tell them so they don’t need to pay McKinsey.

The last thirty years, the entire direction of the airline has been away from performance, safety and reputation - and towards bonus...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Jan 2024, 22:48
Replies: 964
Views: 325,668
Posted By CaptCloudbuster

All QF need do is ask themselves: ”what is...

All QF need do is ask themselves:

”what is the major change between OTP in the 90’s Vs 60’s %?”

Answer = outsourcing
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
25th Jan 2024, 05:55
Replies: 20
Views: 4,163
Posted By Gne

Do you mean the anniversary of the day the...

Do you mean the anniversary of the day the Australian Citizenship Act, 1948 took legal effect (26 January 1949) and our forbears ceased being British subjects and started carrying Australian...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
23rd Jan 2024, 19:43
Replies: 964
Views: 325,668
Posted By 73to91

The Chairman's Lounge - published by Simon &...

The Chairman's Lounge - published by Simon & Schuster, written by former AFR columnist Joe Aston.
...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Jan 2024, 02:53
Replies: 36
Views: 5,489
Posted By rioncentu

Engine handling the 210 & 206 are the same....

Engine handling the 210 & 206 are the same. Speeds and general handling they are not the same.

210 wing failure - Yes one crashed here which started a lot of world wide checking requirements. For...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Jan 2024, 01:44
Replies: 36
Views: 5,489
Posted By compressor stall

No but it demands respect (sure as do most...

No but it demands respect (sure as do most aircraft).

At ten hours on type I thought I was getting the hang of it.

At 100 hours I looked back at how poorly I flew at 10 hours.

At 500 hours...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Jan 2024, 02:37
Replies: 2,165
Views: 232,140
Posted By DROPS

The transformation of final field training in to...

The transformation of final field training in to basic ATC 101 during live traffic on already short staffed sectors may explain why experienced OJTI Controllers have relinquished their Training...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Jan 2024, 01:54
Replies: 2,165
Views: 232,140
Posted By Gne

In the early 1990's the Public Works Committee...

In the early 1990's the Public Works Committee looked at the difference in the (then) CAA and RAAF training for ATC. The findings may surprise some . Course photographs for the RAAF school in 1997...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Jan 2024, 00:08
Replies: 2,165
Views: 232,140
Posted By sunnySA

There is no single problem, no single solution....

There is no single problem, no single solution. Unfortunately Airservices sees training as a cost and not as an investment. They try to do things on the cheap eg not paying accommodation for ATC...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd Jan 2024, 22:47
Replies: 2,165
Views: 232,140
Posted By Done and done

Word on the street is that recruiting criteria...

Word on the street is that recruiting criteria was relaxed a while ago to provide more fodder for the "Academy".

ASA want to reduce course lengths and shift the burden of training to OJTIs in the...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
2nd Jan 2024, 07:50
Replies: 29
Views: 4,618
Posted By Ex FSO GRIFFO

Angel Hi Mr P., .....Well, 'back in the...

Hi Mr P., .....Well, 'back in the day'......did'na have no 'fancy gismos' - they were'nt invented yet - just a map, (WAC) ruler, and a sharp pencil.

Learned how to nav at rather 'low levels' and...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
1st Jan 2024, 21:49
Replies: 2,165
Views: 232,140
Posted By DROPS

What a f***** joke

What a f***** joke
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
27th Dec 2023, 03:03
Replies: 83
Views: 18,607
Posted By SHVC

It’s hard to blind the ground staff, they’re...

It’s hard to blind the ground staff, they’re never there.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
20th Dec 2023, 21:48
Replies: 41
Views: 8,814
Posted By StudentInDebt

CDA applied to arrivals into LHR and LGW, no...

CDA applied to arrivals into LHR and LGW, no level segment greater than 2nm below 6000’.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
15th Dec 2023, 20:12
Replies: 35
Views: 7,849
Posted By neville_nobody

Assuming ATC want to turn on low viz procedures....

Assuming ATC want to turn on low viz procedures. I have had a couple of instances where auto land would have been prudent but it wasn’t an option.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
15th Dec 2023, 07:41
Replies: 35
Views: 7,849
Posted By framer

Sorry C441, I was lazy with my quote. What I...

Sorry C441, I was lazy with my quote. What I meant was that the moment to shift your gaze to the far end of the runway, is when the threshold passes under the nose of the aircraft, and the threshold...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Dec 2023, 09:52
Replies: 37
Views: 10,495
Posted By ResBunny

I think some of you have swallowed too much...

I think some of you have swallowed too much Government Kool-Aid.

This legislation is not about comparing pilots in one company flying a particular type of aircraft, with pilots in another company,...
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