DHL Air - Pilot sacked for "whistle blowing"
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A 4 sector night often does not provide you with sufficient time to hit the vending machines between flights, particularly if delays are incurred and your professionalism dictates that you endeavour to make up the time lost from the previous rotation(s).
It IS about flight safety. For me the vending machine is not particularly the issue - as mentioned earlier, the access to something more wholesome is what is required. I would not begrudge paying for this 'priveledge'.
It IS about flight safety. For me the vending machine is not particularly the issue - as mentioned earlier, the access to something more wholesome is what is required. I would not begrudge paying for this 'priveledge'.
Thanks for the accolade Wheelbarrow !. That said i think your front wheel needs a squirt of WD40, as i can hear it squeaking from here !. I stand by the entirety of my post ,no heroics just realism. Perhaps i'm from a different era but from where i sit (on what i concede is a fat arse !) the winds of change whistled through the industry a long time ago ! . I really find it difficult to believe that the majority of L/H,R/H or middle seaters are incapable of planning ahead on the victual front.
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Barrow......Never been accused of licking up to the management before. I am all for the dont ask, dont get syndrome. But...
if you are spanner on the ground (and I speak from my Dan-Air Line days), I can't remember anyone rushing out with plates of sandwiches to some remote stand in the rain on a cold night on an engine change. Ok, compared to an office shiney, flying boxes in the middle of the night doesn't have the same amount of snack breaks but there are a lot of other low payed jobs out there whose workers thrive on home made butties to keep them going.
As for Flight Safety......Then if the CAA and their European counterparts thought it was an issue, then they would make it mandatory for airlines to provide food.
In the end I suppose you could force the issue by refusing to fly but then when your counterparts do without and still go, then you just look like a winger.
Wish I was twiddling the light knobs on the panel and sleeping in the seat again. Happy days. At least the bear stayed awake!
Coop and crew monitoring Bear
PS And you are a fine fellow too !
if you are spanner on the ground (and I speak from my Dan-Air Line days), I can't remember anyone rushing out with plates of sandwiches to some remote stand in the rain on a cold night on an engine change. Ok, compared to an office shiney, flying boxes in the middle of the night doesn't have the same amount of snack breaks but there are a lot of other low payed jobs out there whose workers thrive on home made butties to keep them going.
As for Flight Safety......Then if the CAA and their European counterparts thought it was an issue, then they would make it mandatory for airlines to provide food.
In the end I suppose you could force the issue by refusing to fly but then when your counterparts do without and still go, then you just look like a winger.
Wish I was twiddling the light knobs on the panel and sleeping in the seat again. Happy days. At least the bear stayed awake!
Coop and crew monitoring Bear
PS And you are a fine fellow too !
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Well, this thread says it all. Any bright young kid thinking of becoming a pilot should read it.
Take a hint....dont do it! You could invest 000's of your own money in getting a license and hear the likes of Flip Flop telling your sorry ass to buy a sarnie and be grateful for a job.
If you can pass a CPL-IR and ATPL written, you can get REAL careeer to, one which leads to monetary reward, and self respect, plus you can sleep in your own bed at night and come home to your wife and kids. Its hard to put a value on that, but in my view its beyond price.
Or you can read this sort of thing and wonder where the whole industry is going. I have to say that any competent outsider would look at this and see it as pathetic. Truck drivers do get treated better: they have a mandatory tachograph for rest periods, without the labyrinthian CAP 371, and can pull into a decent cafe for a sarnie and a brew.
Saddest of all are the glee merchants who hop up at every opportunity and revel in the latest indignity heaped on a profession where lves are at stake, personal accountability is absolute and self-critical analysis in a brutal and on-going way are key to a safe and succesful career.
Take a hint....dont do it! You could invest 000's of your own money in getting a license and hear the likes of Flip Flop telling your sorry ass to buy a sarnie and be grateful for a job.
If you can pass a CPL-IR and ATPL written, you can get REAL careeer to, one which leads to monetary reward, and self respect, plus you can sleep in your own bed at night and come home to your wife and kids. Its hard to put a value on that, but in my view its beyond price.
Or you can read this sort of thing and wonder where the whole industry is going. I have to say that any competent outsider would look at this and see it as pathetic. Truck drivers do get treated better: they have a mandatory tachograph for rest periods, without the labyrinthian CAP 371, and can pull into a decent cafe for a sarnie and a brew.
Saddest of all are the glee merchants who hop up at every opportunity and revel in the latest indignity heaped on a profession where lves are at stake, personal accountability is absolute and self-critical analysis in a brutal and on-going way are key to a safe and succesful career.
