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blinkpilot182

Standard forum etiquette is to look back a bit and see if your questions have been answered. The questions that individual asked were very common questions. It’s reasonable to ask if the person bothered to look a few posts back. One is asking a group of individuals who work at the company they are inquiring about questions related to life and culture in their wheelhouse. A lot of folks on here answer nicely. For the ones who answer with slightly less couth? Well we are ACMI folks and we generally like our coffee without creamer .

Look folks. Pour yourself your favorite adult beverage and do a bit of reading. Pilots love helping pilots who want to help themselves.

Cheers,
Blink


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Elevation

Fair enough. Let's answer his questions.

We're hiring into Southern and Atlas. Upgrade times are running around 5 years in the 747, less on the other fleets, but that is liable to change. Right now there are fences between certificates, but we don't know what will happen with seniority list integration. The two locals are arbitrating the integrated seniority list. So we don't know what fleet or certificate fences will exist when the process is finished.

Specifics beyond this are pure speculation.

Things change, so ask as often as you like for updates. Some people will find a reason to get angry.

Turbosina

Saw you on the 'Gone" list on the Sapa forums. Good luck! You got out at a good time...

C17B74

Just an assumption above (Unless you know him/her personally) and there are many here who could have gone on to so-called “Top Tier” cargo outfits (Majors not included in discussion as current events are obvious, but it will get better eventually). As for myself it works supremely well and I probably have a much better time here than most anywhere else (Plenty of long life friends at the big 5). But that is due to the nature of the business and what my priorities are and how my lifestyle is personally built for it. Plenty of arguments on who is the best: Pay, Vacation, soft pay, schedules, time off, etc. but in the end there maybe better but no best for any lengthy periods due to the leap frog contract year after year. Those supreme contracts will be stunted for awhile is a good guess. As for mwa, many positive aspects directly for me and I will acknowledge that we have plenty of growth required in many areas, but for now I already held a winning lottery and my next one (ticket for staying here), I can only hope will shore up several of the waning areas. I do realize I may rip it up in the end, but hopefully it will remain fun until the end. Many will say we are wasting our time and that may be true for many. I will say meh, I still enjoy my crews going to the good, bad and sometimes ugly. Been mostly great so far, but it isn’t for everyone.

CRJJ

I guess my broken ankle story is like a name tag haha. Thanks for the good wishes. It does seem like timing was impecable after all.

C17B74

Timing is everything/Rather be lucky than good. Soak up what you can and we’ll see you on the line, at least before another group snags you. For now, enjoy the whirlwind carrying the world. It’s what you make of it.

RemiDenton

Nah. He’s right. That question was literally 1 page back.


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propellere

Quick two question for the guys/gals at Atlas. When you are flying 3 pilots (1 CA 2 FO), do you log the whole flight in your logbook or only log 2/3’s time as 1/3 you are out of the seat? Also, The flight time for your monthly guarantee, does the 14hr flight for example count or do they break it down to into 2/3’s time. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

CRJJ

My family situation is quite atypical, so this job may end up working extremely well for me as well, as you mentioned up there. We'll see in a couple of years.
Life is what you make of it, no doubt.