Skidbiter

Anyone here been to PNG lately??? Full of Canadians, they are slowly improving the local gene pool

Exactly....... Well said!

Another thing I found with the 500 was that if you had some waypoints spelt with capitals & some in lowercase, it wouldn't predict some words, and I agree with the navigating through waypoints often, it was a pain. I used the plastic end of my ball point pen to type on the touch screen, works way better than big fingers, I just tried to be careful so not to scratch the screen, but works great as a stylus.

One of our machines has the 500, I don't like it at all, not nearly as easy to navigate to waypoints etc, I prefer the 296. But maybe over time I will get used to it........ but not anytime soon, none of the other pilots like it much either.

Here is a more suspect use of a machine @ minute 3:15, guess the 44 isn't much good at pine tree pruning? The rest are just more people after a Darwin's award, bet you cant watch without saying ouch! http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=29791

This is always a can of worms. It depends on who you work for and what country you work in, as it has been said before, I couldn't care less what the next guy wants to write in his log book, but I have always used air time in mine, mainly because thats what is done in the country I trained in, and the CAA would check your log book hours off against the aircraft tech log hours at audit time, so if you logged all the hours you sat on the ground either loading people, spray, fueling or what ever, it wouldn't match up, then you would have some explaining to do! And to those who are about to say there isn't much difference between Air time and flight time, I disagree, in a year I have had up to about 300 hours difference at times, but as I say, don't care what others do, thats just how I do it, just adding my 2c worth.

Not much I agree with here, especially about the coffee, it sucks!!! You take a gamble with any company in PNG, none are perfect, the whole country is corrupt, starting from right at the top - down, just the way it is there. And I also don't agree about hating Canuks working in PNG, as said, there are plenty there already, every one is in the same boat, it is a foreign country!

Although it seems you haven't done much investigating via google to see who is in PNG, I will give you a few ideas. Yes there is Pacific, but I think they may only have 1 x 212, could be wrong, I also hear they have all had a pay rise there. There is also a gaggle of other companies running 212's there also, try Hevilift, Heli Niugini, Heli Fix. There's a start for you.

Year round employment, a warm climate, 28/28 schedule & a steady decent monthly income has made me go moving drills else where.

So after reading this thread over the last few days, I have finally got sick of shaking my head in awe at some of these posts and decided to chip in to the debate. I haven't bothered to look at statistics or the back rounds of any instructors etc so these are just my observations. So... it seems, going by the EXPERTS on here that "all" the "US of A" flight instructors & training schools aren't worth their weight in gold and that the ONLY country in the world that has quality instructors and training is Canada??? Well I am sure all the neighbours to the South would probably have other ideas on that! But I guess there is nothing wrong with being full of your self...... Then there are the guys STILL flogging a dead horse, re - immigrants taking away Canadians jobs! How many Canadians work out of country taking away "locals" jobs in those countries, or working for Canadian companies setting up in other countries??? How many companies in Canada are already owned by Americans - a whole bunch!!! How many of your favourite Hockey teams have immigrants in them??? For good or bad, it is a global economy, so you can either sit at home and get bitter in your narrow minded little world or get out and embrace it! Travel, work in other countries, see for your self that there are other ways of doing things, you can work in the States, you just have to know how to go about it, and maybe have a little cash on hand. To sum up, I think some of you should hop down off your "high horse", if this new training outfit (that you are all giving free advertising for) has shoddy training, I am sure it won't last long, as it IS a small industry after all, so what are you so worried about??? Also, whats the big deal with someone hiring a machine to go do a few hours solo once he has his private license?? Its done in plenty of places, I know there is a 'little' difference between 50 & 100 or 150 hours, but not much! at 100 or 150 you now have a license to LEARN, no more no less! I, like quite a few of you, am at home waiting for the season to kick off so fire at will......

Here we go once again :glare:

From another forum, not quite what you asked for.

Not sure about NZ'ers getting 2 years here, as far as I know (unless it has changed this year), they only get a 1 year work permit. And it is a one off, you don't get it again. I can't speak for the Ozies or Poms/Limeys.

Here's a link for ya. http://www.casa.gov.au/fcl/download/cplh_requirements.pdf

Kugluktuk......every time I went in there they were out side smoking. But I guess it's not quite as busy as OJ.