A quick question to the learned of the posters;

I received a DCM letter from RBA in response to an ad for pilots they posted two months ago in Flight. Two weeks later an agency tells me I have a job if I want it!!

Am I confused? Yep.

If I take this, and be assured I do have the 'requisite experience' is it realistic to expect a command in a year?

Maisk,

Yes you could get a command in a year. (If your the bosses son).

Otherwise you may have to wait a few years longer. How many years would depend on whether they start offloading the 767s or 757s.

UK CAA Licences VS FAA Licences
 

The two major factions on licences also confuses me.

On one hand you have a company that says you cannot be hired nor fly these aircrafts in this country because we don't recognize your licence.However it is perfectly O.K for you to fly the same aircraft,enter our airspace, land and pick up the same pax because you work for a company that does.

Someone should come up with the idea of standardisation of type licences instead, regardless of CAA/FAA initial issuance!That way I can fly a UNITED 777,CX 777 ,BA 777 or RBA 777 if they got one.So if you have flown 4 types then you would have 4 type licences & have 1 current at any given moment.It would then be up to the company whether they insist you are current for the type they want.

Now I come across airlines requiring ICAO licences.My own licence is regarded as one( UK CAA ATPL papers). Now can I apply for RBA requiring CAA UK ATPL?

9M_JON:confused:

who broke the 319 ??:p

wind in the night

Rumours are filtering back from the abode that one of your finest prodigal sons may be about to return to you. Anyone in the abode care to comment if DT is on the way back. I guess it would be good news for all if true.

Sad for DT if true

A340 ''purchase'' approved by the firm. April 04 BWN-FRA direct first stage, second stage to to LHR 4x week 3 via DXB with B767.
Dhaka, BG later 04. AKL being delinked from BNE flights summer 04.
Plans for -300 and -500 A340 are both in place, with payload restrictions to enable direct services. So final option not decided.

Slingsby
 

Enough romour and gossip, your stories change faster than the Rwy's at Bangkok! (Or is it Heathrow?)

When you get a real job, then you will be in a position to know what it's really like to fly up to max hours for the last couple of months, have your days off down route, and try to remember your wife's name when you get home because your so jet-lagged!;)

And I thought you better than snipes and moans.:{

there's something rotten in the state of Denmark

What the #@&k are you talking about?

9M-JON your goin on about a Universal International ICAO ATPL that Ive been bitchin about bringin in for years. In that time Ive realised itll never happen due to the self-interest of the worlds individual aviation authoriteys and the maintainance of there provincial fiefdoms. Youd have to first iliminate every aviation civil servant and Transport minister but theres too many of them in the world and not enough bullets to go around. :(

SLASHER...You hit this one right. All of this B.S. about licenses in different countries and this country or that country are foolish. No matter what country you are from, the cars get smaller when you go up and bigger when you get close to mother earth.

When they allow people from some country to fly to another one,they don't go through a toll booth to scan their license. They just fly to there,call the tower, and land.

i wish the world counld agree on some international acceptance of ratings and licenses.

"They just fly to there, call the tower and land"

Fair enough, but what about the ones who take off from the taxiway by mistake for example? :suspect:

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Through difficulties to the cinema

Blacksheep....I have made it my policy to use runways. They are the ones with the big numbers on them (except in some countries).They and usually longer and wider and the rest of the guys waiting on the taxiways will like you a lot better <bfg>.....

The word from the abode is that there are not enough pilots to service the schedule, including the recently recruited A319 chaps. Also that several pilots have or are about to resign.

Rumour or truth?

Well...everything in life is relative!

I have only about 75 hours for NOV and that is down from previous months for me. The PT/PC is this month and that is not a paid event and it takes a few days out of the possibility for reassignment and more hours.

In terms of not having enough to fly the schedule,that would not be quite true. Every airline can change schedules and schedule less vacations when they become tight. Eventually it may catch up to them. I am sure they are doing what is prudent.

Right now lots of interviewing and a large group of Singapore guys coming this way. A few in school and many interviews from many airlines.

In terms of people resigning, there is always turnover. I see no great huge group leaving. A few here and there.

I think normal age 60 retirements makes opening more than anything. 2 744 Captains retired last month and one more guy I was with today has 5 months to go.

Jim. The thread is about Royal Brunei.

2 to Virgin Blue, 3 on interview stage with EK, 2 on long term sick leave.
2 FO's positioned back having run out of hours for the year (second hand info)
All rosters running upwards of 95hrs + a month.
Insufficient rest period for new AKL service, with two delays out of two flights, 55m BNE transit time as well. Days off downline, too many on leave at the same time has led to a couple of flights 'nearly' being chopped. Mainly problems on boeing fleet, Airbus guys seem to be covering the shortfall (just).