hard up
In 1995 through 96 they actually paid a bounus ( 1000 bucks) for bringing in a recruit.... then they started getting cute with the payments and finally, the pilots quit bringing in the meat due to the "new rules" for payment and also the company wasent doing what the company told the...
Well what would you think with a statement like " Friends don't let friends vote UNION---Just Say NO!!!!!" at the bottom of their by-line ???
AND, yes, a low time pilot may or may not know about unions, again, your by-line sez it all.
AND.. after being in aviation 38 years, I do have...
company messages
Mgmt is truly amazing. Our company puts out messages like no tomorrow when there is an event involving our type aircraft and sometimes other aircraft.
The messages consists of ; "none of our pax were on this plane", or " this was not a company plane". But if something...
days worked
Au Contraire mon ami..... For NJA there are 182 days of work available MINUS two, three, or 4 weeks of vacation. So at the minimum vacation available, you would only work 168 days. Then there is sim twice a year, two more weeks, and ground recurrent which is a week.
And all...
encore pluses
Flight safety at ICT 3 weeks ago... They are gearing up for us right now. Also several other pilots confirmed the buy....... I havent heard anything offical from the company yet, but thats not unusual. I also havent tried to find out offically either......
Will be interesting...
electronic
The company is too cheap !! Our 680s have the capability to have the electronic jepp plate right on the MFD but dont cuz the company didnt buy the software.
We just signed for 50 Encore pluses and they will have that capability also. (collins 21 line) but will the company buy the...
starting
Depends on your start day as to early or late... I switched schedules to a Thursday start and now most ALL of my starts are midmorning or mid afternoon
:(
BUT, last tour they started me at 0440 local so 13 quarters of overtime because we started before 0800 on the first day...
Well, if you take the min days worked at FJ as quoted on a previous post (that would be 195 days) and compare it to NJAs schedule, of 175 days... ya get to work 20 more days a year. Almost like another month of work.
The above is not counting holidays off, but includes 2 weeks off (14 days)...
seat change
You might want to look at the pay when changing aircraft. Last time I was there, when you changed from say a 4 yr cpt in the LR60 and went to the CL300 as captain, you went down to starting over..... yeah, one yr captains pay on the 300. some deal !!
A friend is trying to get on at NJA. He's a corporate pilot with a lot of experiance. I recommended him and just found out he will be getting an interview next month. His application was received at NJA in Sept.
Thats 4 months from the time he applied...to the interview only !!
This is...
shuttle
The company has used both... In years past, for 6 months staight, I went out of DAL on Southwest, to SAT to the Cessna service center. Then they switched and started using DFW only, to go god knows where, Recently, they have gone back to DAL and then over to DFW.
In 5 yrs Ive...
401
ULTRA... you forgot ya gotta wait a yr before ya start.. THAT puts u into 7 yrs .
Now ya only gotta wait 3 months........ still puts u at 7 yrs......:mad:
401k
The BAD news is the 401K is not fully vested until THE END OF YOUR 6TH YEAR . In other words......7 years.
Most companys let you have it in 5 yrs like FlexJet......
Short sighted ED*********
Well Ed, I am qualified to answer your question, I worked at flex for 5 stinkin' years...yeah left being sr# 17.
Flex will never change cuz mgmt has NO incentive to change it.
I can tell you Im makeing substantially more working less, at NJA at the 5 year...
logs....
They will probably be IMPRESSED ! I showed up with 3 logbooks and they never even opened them. Be ready to explain why you did your logs they way you did as they will probably ask. Break a leg......:)
Writeups.
I can tell you positively, absolutely..... we (the pilots) did not start getting results until we started writing everything up in sight instead of carrying the write-ups !!
Next biggest change in mgmts attitude happened when they realized we had developed the attitude of "were going...
NJA hiring
They will be putting noobies in the Ultra soon, as this is the second time in 3 weeks the company has asked for volunteers on the busy days for the Uboat and the first call was for the uboat and Encore.
No other fleet was needing extra help............
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