Phil Croucher
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All the bilungual stuff with clients is (or was) done with an MP3 thingy on the dash.
Phil
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All the above comments make me think of the guy with no legs on top of a ship mast in a Force 9 in Forrest Gump - "Call this a storm?"
Go do some pleasure flying for kids with terminal illnesses. That will put everything in perspective.
Good luck to all
phil
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My take is that I won't be leaving this prison planet without Allah/God/Manitou*'s permission. If I'm still here I haven't got my release dates yet. You'll go when your time's up and not before!
Either that or I don't bother with future pain - I've got enough right now!
*Delete as necessary
Phil
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As long as they don't regard the next beer I buy you as a bribe!
Good Luck!
Phil
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Thanks, Boomer - I've mentioned peoples' thoughts on this forum to Aerogulf (plus all the PMs that I've received) and they are very grateful for your thoughts, particularly the guy who had to tell the wives that their husbands would not be coming home again.
It was their first accident in over 30 years of operation, so there is particular gloom in the office.
Phil
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Hi twin - it was, and two finer guys you couldn't hope to meet. Both very careful and safe, and the machine involved was a good one, so who knows what happened?
Phil
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Look at the downloads section here:
www.electrocution.com/aviation
Phil
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I agree with MMike - be as reasonable as you can, but you come first. If they had no pilots and you were around later they would still hire you again rather than having a machine sit on the ground.
I hear you about them doing stuff for you, though and it does cloud the issue, but remember if you work over a reasonable amount of hours you could be viewed as investing in the company and therefore deserve the rewards. The fact that the owner does is part of running a business and his problem. I'm not saying you shouldn't help out when their backs are against the wall, but the modern trend is to have people working as long as possible, and should be stopped in my opinion. People have lives outside the office.
Phil
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"do you think, after two years of minimum wage, no overtime, super long hours , being treated like a retard, and no flying, you would feel like you owed your company ANYTHING when they finally did put you behind the glass? 7-11 in calgary pays $15 an hour with a signing bonus. never heard of groundcrew making that"
"there is no reason you can't pay a guy while your learning to trust him. Sure theres the old excuse of 'toughening them up for the job', but an employee will work better if he actually enjoys working there"
Both excellent points!
Phil
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Hi MMike -
The simple fact is that very few fixed wing aircraft land in confined areas and do the stuff we do.
In any case, most accidents these days are due to people doing stuff they shouldn't. Note I said "most" - there are some genuine accidents where nothing could really have been done, but as long as you are careful and everyone else around you does their job right, I wouldn't worry too much.
No-one leaves this Earth without The Management's permission anyway!
Phil
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The cellset goes inline between your helmet and the intercom system and there's a little circuit that suppresses the cellphone or music if air triffic call.
Phil
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The cellset is a great piece of kit - I used mine all over canada for 2 years and am still using it in UK. Twice I've had to use it when the radio decided not to work. In fact, it works better than a radio quite often. A lot easier than carrying around a spare ICOM
Phil
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If I remember rightly, the 5 days before and after applies to stretches of duty of 27 days and over - it's simply that the maximum is 42 days - or 60 in some circumstances on fires (depends on the local situation)
Phil
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I will give them a nudge - I know Hammond Aviation stock it, so your local club may be able to get it from them?
Phil
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All ready now! Since I'm the cutter and paster round here you can blame me!
Phil
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OK, found the problem - some columns in an answer key got repeated from another one. Duh!
New edition will be up Thurs (29th) PM.
Phil
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Aviation World haven't got their stocks in yet, but you can get it direct from www.electrocution.com/aviation - you will also get the latest edition if you wait until Friday PM!
Phil
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On this point, I must extend grateful thanks to Winnie (and his students!) for all their help so far They found typos and stuff, to be sure, but also made some useful suggestions for the next edition which looks like it will be out sooner than we think!
And Winnie has another good suggestion for an IR exam prep book - watch this space....
Phil
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Yup, I found those and we sacked the preafrooder - if you let me have your address I will send you a new one. If you could let me have a note of what you found, I will also make sure they are the same ones!
Phil
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When it comes to checkrides, don't forget to offer to push it back into the hangar afterwards! Don't just say thanks and wander off!
Flash - the salesmen who sell the most are also the ones that make the most cold calls - coincidence, eh? Just keep trying.
Phil
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Hmmm - seems like someone touched a raw nerve!
Phil
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I'm with you, Bullet - I don't know Brian, but he wouldn't be the first person to be the victim of mistaken loyalties and internal undercurrents.
Phil
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"If you can fly a 22 you can fly anything"
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that!
If you can fly a Hiller 12E you can fly anything
Phil
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Well said, Plinko. I can only add that Remote Helicopters (when I was there, at least) paid us for all flying we did, including training & non-rev. Some companies do it.
We should get paid a lot more for the responsibility we take on ourselves when we "break the rules" to get the job done - for example, every time we go into a confined area we are more often than not in the avoid curve. Something happens there - guess who ends up in court because the company won't support you. We don't get paid nearly enough for that!
Phil
Merry Christmas
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Yes - have a great Christmas and New Year! All the best to you and yours!
phil