Working as a Pilot in China
 

Beware flying in China.

There are lots of ads with big money out there; the reality of living, working and in flying in China far outweighs the benefits in this humble pilot's opinion. Remember, if it's too good to be true, yadda yadda; there's a reason the offers are so exorbitant.

In the interest of disseminating information to fellow aviators, a few friends and I have put together a comprehensive document of the recent experiences of various expat pilots in China from a number of sources, anecdotal exchanges to company memos. Most of the stories circle around the toilet bowl that is Tianjin Airlines, but there are others in the mix as well. Suffice it to say, most of what is related applies to Hainan Group in general (of which mighty gorgon Tianjin is a wriggling tentacle) and can be extrapolated out from there to China in general as the reader sees fit.

Flying Upside Down:There are just too many stories to tell to be honest, but this should give people interested in the theater of ops a good taste of what it's like. Friends don't let friends fly China, and any aviator is a compatriot in this matter of grave significance.

Others who have stories, please do share; or send a PM so we can add what you have to share in our next volume if you don't want to post here. Comments of disbelief welcome; keep the flames to a minimum (we already know it's you, China); this document was prepared for free, accept no imitations.

干杯!
(Gānbēi)

I'd like to read it, but 31.77MB? Something is wrong unless that is a 1500 page manual.


Typhoonpilot

It's legit dude.

By the way, latest and greatest, several guys were going for a NTR 320 Capt. interview that required them to remove the "circle to land" restriction... they spent about $1200 each and the interview was canceled a week later.

Oh, and it's about 400 pages... lots of color illustrations and screen grabs.

None of those links to download work they all direct you to winning iPads etc etc.

Cruz5350, what are you talking about? There is a single link (not links plural), and I just clicked on it and it starts a download of a .pdf that's about 32mb. Troll with your Chinese friends elsewhere perhaps?

It's BS. The link indeed takes you to "Zippyshare.com" and then promptly dumps you over to the App Store to receive some junk app. Your link is a turd.

Hit the download button to the right on the top. The rest are junk.

Looking forward to reading this. I thought about doing this for a while, and some guys I know did fly there. They are all happy to be back.

The link you posted has multiple download options everyone I've clicked takes you to either the App Store or some free iPad crap. I can care less about flying in China but it is pretty funny that you think I'm trolling.

Three posts to his name and all it does is linking to a clicky/malware site? Fishy is too kind a description.

It worked for me, like I said, hit the one on the top right. The rest are crap app links.

Read the first 50 pages, it's very entertaining.