Originally Posted by EuroMexPilot

Any leads on E175 jobs in China or elsewhere in Asia?

Originally Posted by EuroMexPilot

Any leads on E175 jobs in China or elsewhere in Asia?

Originally Posted by CloudSpirit

I'd steer wide of Tianjin, seems they are having money problems. Contracts not being renewed, guys getting fired for random stuff, guys quitting in significant numbers. Beware!

Forthcoming videos of chief and line-check airmen asleep in flight, sim instructors sleeping in the simulator... etc. Stay tuned folks!

Originally Posted by NEDude

But the punishment for even a minor violation, one that would be hard to detect without a computer, is draconian and has the opposite effect of being safe. The entire world knows this with the exception of the Chinese.

One thing to keep in mind with the Chinese is that China spent the better part of a millennium trying to isolate itself from the rest of the world, including even its own neighbours. In fact China has only really tried to reach out and become part of the global community over the past 25 years or so. That is part of the reason even their neighbours have a hard time dealing with the Chinese (I am talking on a one to one and tourist type of level, not on a government level - although that is an issue as well). China in many ways has developed over the last 500+ years in an alternate reality and now is trying to make the rest of the world adapt to its ways. I always tell people that China is really a third world country with first world window dressing.

Originally Posted by pierre66

I'll second that. Excellent quote. A developing country that thinks it has arrived completely. Sorry China, you'll get there via your hard work and intelligence, but intelligence is also knowing what you don't know. And then learning from the experience of others. This concept is not practiced whatsoever in China.

Originally Posted by NEDude

You know another interesting thing to note, and this has really been brought to light to me by conversations with many experts, including some acquaintances who work for the U.S. State Department, is that China has virtually zero allies in the world. Their only close ally is North Korea, and even that relationship has been strained quite a bit in recent years. China has some economic ties to its neighbours, but zero real military and cultural allies. Even the countries they have been a bit friendly with recently (e.g. Russia) they have long had major issues with. In fact the only neighbour China has not had major conflicts, either military or politically, within the last 50 years has been North Korea.