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Old 10-13-2007, 05:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Break out the passports-

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Old 10-13-2007, 07:18 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Its my understanding thats its a pain in the ass to get your US certificates transfered over.....
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Old 10-13-2007, 07:24 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Even bigger to get the right to work...
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Old 10-13-2007, 08:47 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Rex are only have trouble because they don't want to pay what pilots are worth nowdays.
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Rex are only have trouble because they don't want to pay what pilots are worth nowdays.
I hope that never happens in the US

Airlines will always attempt to pay pilots as little as possible, in fact if they can the pilot to pay them to fly all the better (for them). For those who haven't read "Flying the Line Pt. I & II" Amazon has used copies starting under a dollar.

The books focus on the history of ALPA, but if you read beyond that I think you'll see how important labor union is flying have been - and continue to be to pilots.

For you new pilots out there, read a few books about piloting history so that we collectively don't repeat mistakes of the past.
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Old 10-13-2007, 12:46 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I hope that never happens in the US

Airlines will always attempt to pay pilots as little as possible, in fact if they can the pilot to pay them to fly all the better (for them). For those who haven't read "Flying the Line Pt. I & II" Amazon has used copies starting under a dollar.

The books focus on the history of ALPA, but if you read beyond that I think you'll see how important labor union is flying have been - and continue to be to pilots.

For you new pilots out there, read a few books about piloting history so that we collectively don't repeat mistakes of the past.
Like paying for a typeraiting
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Old 10-13-2007, 01:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Who does that?
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Old 10-13-2007, 02:57 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Who does that? Everybody in Australia, other than mainline QF guy's. Mayfly really has to chime in here as he just went through the whole conversion process, as well as dealing with prop operators that thought he should get some real 'Australia' time. What non-sense. We had the odd person in NZ with that idea as well but it appears to have vanished.

But. . .I wouldn't break out the passports just yet. You will still need to get your own work permit for at least the nearish (two years)time. And from what Mayfly tells me you will still require a PR visa to get on a decent jet operator. The freighter guy's like Asian Express do not pay well at all for night freight jet job's, but they (Toll Freight, Australian Air Express)may take you with just a work permit and a rating.
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Old 10-14-2007, 03:43 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Start paying descent money so new blood enters the field and maybe it wouldn't be an issue!! From what I've been hearing down under even AirNZ guys are heading to Cathay for the $ and upward movement.
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I do not think that QF and ANZ will ever hurt for pilots. To consider how many are flying over seas (EK, EY, QF, QA, SIN...) i am sure atleast close to half od them would return to their home countries...i know i would
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