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Hahahahahaha good luck with that! That dude with small man syndrome won’t ever relinquish the only power he’s got in his life! STAY AWAY

Alberta Forest Service, or whatever they are calling themselves this week. Day basing. Averaged Mins. Non Precision Approaches. Dunker training. Non Revenue repositioning flights. Paper maps. My old Gentex SPH-5 helmet. Black flies chewing me under the ear cups of my SPH-5 helmet. Anything that contains Deet. Warm Kool Aid, because the overhead crew took all the cold soft drinks. Trying to get some sleep at 3:00 am when the sun is still shining, heating up the tent like a sauna. Still too much to list!

Medical! I am not submitting to a government mandated test to satisfy some ridiculous fake news about Pilot fitness. My body, my choice!😂

People who blindly trust government, the biggest killers of people throughout history. Also, tipping up fuel drums, bed bugs, cross country commutes, passive aggressive co-workers, unsupportive management, searching for and running for gates at terminals between flights, -49*C, being given the biggest piece of junk machine in the fleet and then getting crap when it breaks down, there's got to be more!

I could use your help, there are parts of my back I can’t reach from sleeping in all the four star accommodations that tents in northern Canada have to offer. I will give you one piece of advice. Get a few more hours and time moving sticks rather that swinging hammers before you get comfortable on that high horse. All the experienced guys on here are not pissing on me for finding a nice gig down here, that could end at any moment like everything else is this industry, because they know that sometimes you smell ####, and other times you smell roses. I’m just a good part of the garden at t

Forced vaccinations.

The Caribbean has many unique challenges, most are unrelated to actual flying. Like the saying goes, The grass is always greener. I would love to Share some of the experience I’ve gained (and still learning) to help out junior pilots. I’m grateful to the mentors who helped me over the years and would like to extend the same to save someone else the trouble of having to figure it out alone. This forum can be an invaluable resource for those willing to participate.

It is sad but true, the site can only be as good or as bad as its members. I used to come here way back and post questions and offer my view on things such as it was but for many years stayed away because i found it so caustic. It only takes a few commenters and comments for things to descend to name calling and mud slinging. No big surprise when you consider the people who you deal with in the work place from day to day. It is the aggressive and unkind who unfortunately seem to excel in this industry (and all others) and it is those same kind of people who destroy any sense of community

I guess there is a reason all the guys that I really respect say they don't visit this site as it's full of opinionated blowhards. I know I'm fairly new to aviation but i can honestly say they only thing I've seen is the same bad attitudes (mostly directed at fellow pilots) I thought I'd come here for some advise but to be fair all I've seen is Egomaniacs arguing..... I'll stick to getting advise from the guys that told me to avoid this place. Enjoy patting yourselves on the back from the Caribbean. I am out!

The camaraderie of fellow aircrew. The sound of a Bell Medium on a cold winter day Heli-skiing. The gentle kiss of the landing gear on a steel deck when the A/C settles without any collective input. Taking off, fully loaded, on a 40'+ day and finessing everything just right, so as to not drag the skids once. Night Rig Landings. The smell and looks of a well used cockpit. The awe and wide eyed amazement of a first time passenger. Many others too long to list.

If you look closely you will find a bunch of us are teasing each other about cushy jobs that we wish we had.... it is not mud slinging. But you will see and find out I have had enough of the unvaccinated bullying on this web site. I am personally vaccinated and having some try and scare the crap out of me with fake news is not what I want to see on here. I have over 5000 hours on a 150' longline. And like others have said here I look out for the low timers like I was looked out for from the high time guys back when I was trying to scare the crap out of myself and not knowing it.

I don't miss the being away from home for 42 days.

Is this what you do? You make a mistake and redirect rather than admitting you were wrong? I believe it’s spelled “I’m sorry for my inappropriate behaviour “. you can just copy and paste that if you like.

Yip

Yep.

Anal! Oh wait I read the headline wrong.

Winter covers

Conspiracy theorists!

Carrots

Doesn’t that just say it all. They might as well just come out and say it. “We know we’re terrible to our employees so we hired a guy to pretend to manage the show”. I suspect there’s still lots of rust under the “new” paint job.

It doesn’t say under new ownership. It’s always under new management.

The term notam is very discriminitory, I think its time to call these notices to air people. Somebody tell truedau

I have to say if I were in the Caribbean the last thing I would be doing is wasting my time on this place. I really hope this isn't what I strive for in my career.

I’m scrolling on the phone on a long weekend loving life. Have a good one dude.

Hey @Saifan Pilot, you have been kind and helpful about many facets of aviation. Haters like @YouRGarbage can suck it. Thanks for sharing and happy May24!

WHO CARES ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE GOT LICENSES! All that matters now is that there are more jobs than pilots! Don’t you have anything better to do with your life on a Saturday of a long weekend than look up statistics Poindexter! Can someone say L0SER!!!!!

Anything that I would miss died 10+ years ago

Cirro is garbage.

Having a well paying job. Working for a living sucks no matter what you do. If I ran away to another career for similar or better pay, I would miss nothing. I find the working conditions fair. I never wanted to sit at a desk and I ain't working the mines. Farming is way too much work also. I could switch careers but then you're back to working again.

Yip

Mornings like this.

well, pretty much all of it except the flying and the aircraft itself. This could be a great industry!

Management 😅

Learn to spell.

I’ve worked for my share of Canadian companies I’d never consider again lol. It’s all what you want, but Canada isn’t even ranking third world anymore, more like fifth or sixth for the heli game. The real work is outside these borders for now unfortunately, which the company in question definitely had the balls to pursue.

What has really changed here? This was always possible. We had the Mi26 working in Canada 15years ago, and nothing really changed after it left. The CH-47 has approval to do one job/project, with set dates it can be in Canada.

Ornge discloses actual pilot pay on their website for any pilot making more than 100k. I'm surprised none of the detectives or industry experts on this forum have dug that up yet.

Engineers should absolutely be negotiating based on flat rate or proper hourly rate for hours worked in the hangar. We should not be paid less through the off seasons just because the companies are not generating revenue. We are still using our same skills and more than likely taking on more responsibility with teaching apprentices, completing large repairs, replacing major components, completing large inspections. The flight pay system is not an accurate compensation method for engineers, pretty much everywhere else in the world doesn’t use this system and it’s time for Canada to catch up.

https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/licensing-pilots-personnel/aviation-personnel-licensing-statistics#toc2

It’s been on a steady downward parabola for the last 7 years (2015). Gee it’s almost like something major changed in Canada around that time like war, famine, pandemic…. Perhaps a ridiculous change in government?

To start with.... doing anything in the Caribbean is a far better idea than being in northern (pick a province) watching Netflix. My vote would be in the Caribbean on this site. I personally am jealous..... most likely the others complaining about ROTOR being there are jealous as well. Yeah yeah we know Iceman.... your there too. Buggers. Lol

I'd miss the flying and the good people that aren't so full of themselves. Other than that I can honestly say that I could leave this quite easily. More Cons than pros to be fair.

I miss when your camp room was well equipped... LOL

The field of broken dreams! 🔥🌧

Does anyone know the deal?

Exactly. Also, I worked for years under NAFTA in the US as a Canadian Licensed pilot and citizen. If a Canadian operator can’t provide the service…

I hope this doesn’t expand into general ex mil aircraft use for utility work. Australia has a UH1/Garlick fly to bits nearly every year, Canada has about 4 x the mediums as Australia so that would extrapolate to a significant increase in events. Operators with commercial variants would also struggle to compete against a cheaper ex mil machine when pax weren’t required. Significant industry disruptor if that was allowed. I hope it doesn’t happen, but if it does there’s a few cheap blackhawks on the market down south!

…..are you really tho? Lol

I’m a pilot so I have no experience with engineers pay scales, but I do have a lot of experience as a Heavy equipment fitter/manager in the mining industry in several countries - as a comparison of industries, I would consider a “flight pay” equivalent in the mining industry to be absolutely ludicrous! Using the “ flight pay” model - If the equipment doesn’t run due to weather/operators calling in sick or it’s down for maintenance then the maintenance staff get paid less - stuff that! Bonehead operator breaks it so I get paid less while I’m fixing it - stuff that! In effect, operators are only