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What are Mods for?
I thought they had delete and Ban functions available to them rather than close a perfectly good thread that the majority were posting sensibly on.
By the looks of things this thread is heading the same way!
I thought they had delete and Ban functions available to them rather than close a perfectly good thread that the majority were posting sensibly on.
By the looks of things this thread is heading the same way!
Joined: Sep 2005
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From: Lancashire some where
Hi Chaps
At Gatwick at the moment and bad news: CAA are processing 500 foriegn ATP licenses, looks like were being flooded from Eastern block which can only mean drowning in the pool and redundancies all round. After all these chaps work for half the money and live in caravans, what can we do?
At Gatwick at the moment and bad news: CAA are processing 500 foriegn ATP licenses, looks like were being flooded from Eastern block which can only mean drowning in the pool and redundancies all round. After all these chaps work for half the money and live in caravans, what can we do?
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What are Mods for?
I thought they had delete and Ban functions available to them rather than close a perfectly good thread that the majority were posting sensibly on.
By the looks of things this thread is heading the same way!
I thought they had delete and Ban functions available to them rather than close a perfectly good thread that the majority were posting sensibly on.
By the looks of things this thread is heading the same way!
Even we have to sleep and work. I did look at this thread last night and took the view that it had degenerated into little more than a slanging match. As it was getting fairly long and unwieldy it also seemed a good point to close it and start a fresh one.
I do take your point about the majority posting sensibly. I can do one one of three things: Edit out the old thread and merge this one into it; Link this thread to the old thread for reference and let it continue as a fresh start. Leave everything as it is now. Let me know which you would prefer?
In the meantime, the miscreant has been given 7 days "sick leave". If the rest proves insufficient, then a longer spell of treatment may be necessary.
Where a thread is ticking along quite nicely (or percieved to be doing so) we don't tend to comb through them on a regular basis. This is on the assumption that any transgressions will be reported through the "report a post" function, or via message contact. This thread was reported this morning. Using the report a post function will normally achieve a quicker response because it doesn't rely on me having 8 hours sleep.
Best regards
Jetdriver
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: UK
Jetdriver please,
Do we have to listen to this drivel?
I appreciate we have freedom of Speech but captain kid is as bad as Mr burger.
Not everyone with a licence bled mummy and daddy dry. I have a good friend in the pool who worked hard and got a great job but it is time to move on, hence applying to bmi.
I wish them all the best and I hope that no one in the pool or bmi has the misfortune to have to sit next to this ****
This is in the main a good post for people with a genuine interest in bmi and working for them. What a shame that these idiots have found Pprune.
Kind regards,
BRS
Do we have to listen to this drivel?
I appreciate we have freedom of Speech but captain kid is as bad as Mr burger.
Not everyone with a licence bled mummy and daddy dry. I have a good friend in the pool who worked hard and got a great job but it is time to move on, hence applying to bmi.
I wish them all the best and I hope that no one in the pool or bmi has the misfortune to have to sit next to this ****
This is in the main a good post for people with a genuine interest in bmi and working for them. What a shame that these idiots have found Pprune.
Kind regards,
BRS
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From: A different hotel to the one crewing told me...
Threadcreep
i found bilderbergers views were correct and also amusing.
As regards to the implication that newcomers to the industry and those in hold pools are only there because they've sponged their way there is bizarre. Agreed, there are always people lucky enough to get everything paid for them, but in my experience they are not the majority. Sadly these days if you're going to be a pilot, expect to cough up cash, to schools, to doctors, to the CAA, to employers, whatever, but who's fault is that?
Caning those that pay for their own rating or even to go for the luxury of an Integrated course has been done to death elsewhere. But I would ask anyone to answer this question. Since when does anyone within this industry have the right to say to newcomers "there's a huge problem, my T&Cs are being eroded - it's your fault now you sort it out."
I don't hear many people refusing to fly with pay to drive FOs, I don't hear anyone moaning about having paid for the training of ex forces pilots through taxes, I don't hear any employers refusing to take students from "overpriced" schools. And they won't. That's the way of the world and it's what happens, tough. Just the same as employers will milk wannabe's (and when the markets difficult like it is now experienced staff too), and so too will the schools. The expression on civvy street is cash cows....
So sorry, I for one don't believe those comments were correct or justified. Try the same implication on the threads for BA/Easy holdpools and I suspect that the response there would be no different.
Anyway, hope we can let this thread get back to its intended subject and I'll get back off my soapbox and go look for my missing sense of humour.
oap
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From: More than a tank of fuel away from home.
oapilot - Agreed! Regional (as do many of the 'smaller' airlines) tend to prefer guys and gals that have worked their way up through instructing, glider towing, air taxi etc etc...
It still beats me what started all this??
Anyway.....there is nothing much to report from within Regional that hasn't already been said or rumoured....
We are all waiting with baited breath......the Lufty deal is certainly one of the main reasons everything is slow to get going...fingers crossed that when it does, it will do so in a big way!!
SSS
It still beats me what started all this??
Anyway.....there is nothing much to report from within Regional that hasn't already been said or rumoured....
We are all waiting with baited breath......the Lufty deal is certainly one of the main reasons everything is slow to get going...fingers crossed that when it does, it will do so in a big way!!
SSS
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Joined: May 2004
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From: Newcastle
Just noticed this on the times website:-
Rumour of the day
Despite reports from Germany that Lufthansa is getting cold feet over its acquisition of 80 per cent of bmi, amid arguments about the capital adequacy of Sir Michael Bishop’s airline, the deal looks set to be completed this week: bmi is holding Lufthansa to its original price terms and the necessary conditions for the takeover have been met.
In the know: Lufthansa; International Power; Britvic; Tullow Oil - Times Online
Lets hope the deal is complete this week...where have I heard that before?!
Rumour of the day
Despite reports from Germany that Lufthansa is getting cold feet over its acquisition of 80 per cent of bmi, amid arguments about the capital adequacy of Sir Michael Bishop’s airline, the deal looks set to be completed this week: bmi is holding Lufthansa to its original price terms and the necessary conditions for the takeover have been met.
In the know: Lufthansa; International Power; Britvic; Tullow Oil - Times Online
Lets hope the deal is complete this week...where have I heard that before?!
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From: Newcastle NI
Capt kid
No chance of the Germans rushing over here to bmi Regional, most newbies go to ABZ first, which from my time with them is about the worst place in Europe to be based, the food is dreadful, the weather crap, with management behavior so bad it should get an anti social order against it
Think of Hogans hero's, behave or you vill be sent to the Russian front.
If you think you can escape on days off forget it, you'll finish that late on your last duty, that anything south bound will have gone (you probably flew it) and start again that early you'll have to set off back to ABZ 10 minutes before you arrived home.
The only escape is to spend your days in LHR and put up with wing commander Bill telling you to stand closer to the razor, wear your cap and reporting every thing to the head of commando team Y DIV, Prince Albert DFSO BAR ASBO
Joking aside ABZ is great if you like 80% chips and pizza and the training is first class, oh and its dark alot apart from June when its not dark at all.very strange
J Clarkson
Think of Hogans hero's, behave or you vill be sent to the Russian front.
If you think you can escape on days off forget it, you'll finish that late on your last duty, that anything south bound will have gone (you probably flew it) and start again that early you'll have to set off back to ABZ 10 minutes before you arrived home.
The only escape is to spend your days in LHR and put up with wing commander Bill telling you to stand closer to the razor, wear your cap and reporting every thing to the head of commando team Y DIV, Prince Albert DFSO BAR ASBO
Joking aside ABZ is great if you like 80% chips and pizza and the training is first class, oh and its dark alot apart from June when its not dark at all.very strange
J Clarkson
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Joined: May 2004
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From: Newcastle
Reading his previous posts would appear to be an engineer/wannabe pilot at one stage. Why so bitter and twisted toward bmir?!
Anyway, mods have now ushered out the bad lads, good work.
Now what were we talking about?!....
Is SMB still courtin'?
Anyway, mods have now ushered out the bad lads, good work.
Now what were we talking about?!....
Is SMB still courtin'?
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From: gate 67 JFK
topjet
If said person had grandfarther rights he/she wouldn't be required (for licence purposes) to complete a MCC course, you are required to have passed your IR at either PLL or CPL level prior to starting a MCC course
The only circumstance in which a MCC cert: would not be issued is if he/she failed to turn up, it is not a flying test in any sense, it is about multi crew operation, you cannot pass or fail.
Lots of time on my hands thanks, you must have to, but i wont be going in to Manchester in my uniform!!
The only circumstance in which a MCC cert: would not be issued is if he/she failed to turn up, it is not a flying test in any sense, it is about multi crew operation, you cannot pass or fail.
Lots of time on my hands thanks, you must have to, but i wont be going in to Manchester in my uniform!!
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From: uk
Any further developments or rumours at Regional. Have any more crew been offered EGNR as a base, are these 2 ex Flybe 145's joining the fleet this year for growth in the charter contract work, or will they replace the 2 leased units. Any rumour about future size and shape under Lufty? How are they looking crew wise, any people leaving or holding in pools for larger companies? 
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Spoke to a couple of reg crew recently and they seemed to think no recruitment for the timebeing, be it from new applications, hold pools or whatever.
Things can change so quickly however.
Its just a crap time just now....
Things can change so quickly however.
Its just a crap time just now....
