Recent content by dockjock

Perhaps this only happens when there are no suitable alternates for YVR within reasonable distance.

Cheers guys, thanks for the info. Catch you there next time.

I'm planning on being there at 1700. Is this thing still on? Not many replies here!

A lot of time?! Its been a week man! If you're serious, like I said in the other thread- 8 months. I don't think your champ will haul a canoe, or much gear. You need a C185 at a minimum it sounds like. But actually you would probably be better to get the OC with the champ, then add a C185...

The airplane would have to be registered commercially, under CAR 703 (air taxi). Your insurance would definitely have to change. Here's the short, short, short version: The fee to apply for a 703 license (a.k.a. air operator's certificate or AOC) I believe is $1500 and the process...

Was it a good forum for networking? Or more bluntly- hitting up a whole bunch of chief pilots for jobs at the same time thereby saving yourself a ton of travel time? I am trying to move to Calgary (but need a job there first), so considered flying in from Toronto for the event. I decided not...

Oh the usual of Arizona's would probably be good. I will try to make it. Been to a couple already but not since last year. Its usually not worth trying to make any kind of "reservations" because only a couple people show up. Its a pretty big sports bar type of place with tex mex food and hot...

Well it doesn't look like they are hiring off the street, but the recall is good news. They have moved a few 1900 crews to YMX as of Oct.1 for the eastern cargo runs they won from UPS.

ATC is a good career, but hardly one you could do "in the meantime" while waiting for a flying job. Once you finish the training, just like you said, you're at a decent salary already. Unless you are superman it would be hard to go back to the type of job that is available to 200-hr pilots and...

Smashing into an aerostar on the ground probably saved a couple lives right there.

Jet thrust who?

Ok so they just brought a Global on line, and are supposedly announcing a Falcon 900 at the NBAA convention in a couple weeks. How the heck do I get a job there?

Ya sure, makes sense. But they were accepting money down in advance from students right up to the end. And the instructors had zero notice too. You'd think that if the owner is not going to feel much pain ie. get to keep his a/c anyway, then common decency and respect would say that the staff...

ATI's aircraft were owned by the president and leased to ATI. As a kick in the nuts to all those that lost money and/or jobs in the whole mess, he still keeps the airplanes and walks away smelling like a rose. What a complete jagoff of a person. Total scum.

Good idea that is probably ahead of its time, which means it has the potential to be a great idea. There are already numerous float schools, or really operators that also teach float flying in the shoulder seasons, that do this. Specifically Georgian Bay Airways includes a small survival...