My roster out of BHD this month is about 65 hours block time. That's pretty average. I suspect that in the new year that will go up!

Belfast is a great base with lots of good people around both on the ground and in the air.

Flying Fiona

Whats the betting you'll soon be slagging off your current employer Monarch i hear! your just a to**er :mad:

On FF Jet Blast topic, he claims that he went to Easyjet after Flybe and left his partner at Flybe. I'm still trying to work out who it is, or was that post a diversion tactic.

Anyways about Flybe. A great airline to start your career with, and to end with if you fancy living around one if the regional bases. Me, I'm a Londoner born and bred, so I had to leave so I could be based at one of the London airports.

The people I flew with, flight deck and cabin crew, made life there worthwhile. I've moved onto a bigger airline now, and its just not the same cos of the size. Yes you will have to work hard, show me an airline where you now won't.

Good luck

Flybe does have its fair share of problems including not enough drivers in the correct places for the number of routes and aircraft. this does mean its hard work and quite disruptive..

That said i was there for 6yrs, in the main the crews are a great bunch of guys and girls, head office has some good folks too along with those who appear to be there just to make bad decissions and make every ones life hard.

just like in any other company i guess !!!!!!!.

Promotions and type ratings will come quickly at Flybe its a great place to start ..

Jonni, I dont think FF is a driver at Monarch, they are good at spotting idiots !!!!

From the airlines that I have worked for, flybe is typical of my point.

Any airline that has the lesser pay/conditions etc generally is left with the really down to earth sort of people. Thats what makes it a fun airline to work with. The higher up the tree you climb, the more isolated you become. Just my experience of it all. Depends if you want to climb the tree where its colder, or stay on the lwer branch having fun aswell as working. The decision is always personal.

Yup. Good point. Indeed, they say that life itself is like a tree full of monkeys: Looking down, all you see is smiling faces; looking up, all you can see is @rseholes!

:}

Flying Fiona - some people really are whinging g*ts sometimes
 

I suppose it depends on your point of view and what you have had to deal with before you became a pilot.
I sometimes used to work a straight 72 hour shift when on expedition with groups of barking mad young offenders for crap pay in all weather as a routine part of my job.......who cares and so what?

I have ex-collegues/friends with Eastern, Logan and Emerald to name but a few and believe me, their pay is worse than Flybe.


The facts are :

Nobody forced you to work at Flybe
The pay for an FO starting out is higher than almost all UK Turbos
Did you expect to not have to work hard for a living as a pilot?
If you don't like it I am glad you decided to go elsewhere and leave an openening for us struggling FIs who are more than willing to take the job.

Rant over:mad:

Duir,

The point you make is good one; I'm surprised it took you this long to make it.

The fact is that it is quite possible to have a very happy time at Flybe - you have to start with right attitude, though. I will defend my employer in public up to the hilt when it's deserved but most of us have long realised that Flying Fiona is simply a cretinous g*t, and the poisinous rubbish he repeatedly posts is simply no longer worth rising to. Most reasonable folk recognise an idiot when they meet/ read one.

;)

I spent 2 years at Flybe as my first commercial job. Yes it was hard work and there are problems with the company. BUT it was great experience and the people were fantastic. I wouldn't swap that time for anything.

Also the turbo-prop pay is better than elsewhere in the UK - I'm not saying that makes it good - IMHO turbo-prop pay in general is too low. However, that is a fact.

Lastly wherever you go the job is what you make it. All companies have problems and will annoy you from time-to-time. But if you like the people, the flying and the base then you have to grin and bear some other things.

Flybe is a great place to start or a great place to stay if you want a specific regional base.