Facts about CRJ Captain employemnt in China
Salary quoted is incorrect.
Before you make any income, you will have to go thru hell to pass Medical, ATP theory Exam ' half pilots fail” and company check-ride.
Medical results most the time are incorrect "Political reasons" if diagnosed with anything abnormal, you will have to wait and wait to get it corrected, sometimes more than 3 months.
Once you spend 2 to 5 months dealing with all that, and provided you pass all, you will sign the contract and start making $6000 per month.
Then you will go thru Sim training for your Government Check ride " Sim is the most sensitive Sim in the world. Provided you pass all training that involves too much political drama, you will go for your Chinese ATPL License government Check ride. Examiner is a young arrogant that passes whomever he likes, he uses his Iphone 80% of the time while giving you check ride. If you are lucky, and he lies you, you'll pass, if not you'll be sent home.
After passing check ride, you will have to do 3 touch and go's "very easy” you'll just sit there and the instructor does everything including flaring, landing with on the controls. "They do not trust you" even if you have 10,000 hours on the CRJ.
After all that, you will do more sim training, then the company check ride. Then you go for line training, this is where you will have to have extreme patience and kissing you knows what. It used to be minimum 25 hours line training, but now its 50 hours minimum, plus a line check after each 25 hours. You will be yelled at, laughed at and they will make you feel like you have never flown an airplane before.
3 captains were asked to give their Chinese ATPL back to the government, claiming they needed to verify 121 flight hours, after they had to wait 2 months after passing check ride for verification, even though there are pilots flying the line with no part 121 hours. So some pilots been on training pay for over one year.
After that, provided you pass and get released, you will be released as a Captain, and will start making 11,500 per month. Remember if you do the rotation 30 days on, 30 off, you will have to fly 900 to 950 hours for the 6 months you are there, to make any bonus pay, so your one month rotation from the 15th until the 15th you have to fly 150 hours, double the amount of flying you are used to in normal countries. “They call from the 15th until the end of the same month a whole month."
In order to make more than 138,000 per year, you have to be always on time, not being sick and flying the minimum hours above, having perfect safety records with no QAR “preset parameters.”
You will receive daily threats, to follow SOP and to follow their orders. Your two FO’s you’ll be flying with “some hardly speak English” always monitoring you, and reporting to the chief!
Xcpats moral is down. A lot of Drama!!! One Xcpat pilot just got arrested for one day, for having little liquor in his overnight bag to take to the hotel. They got him out, and split home as he was being punished with a fine and suspension.
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