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  1. freight dork

    Annoying things your CA/FO does, 2011 version

    Come fly in Asia for a few years and you'll never complain about the FO's in the USA ever again. I'm to the point that I'm just happy that the company I work for finally changed our Ops Manual to prohibit smoking in the flight deck on flights shorter than four hours. Now if the FO's and cabin...
  2. freight dork

    What should the airlines do?

    Please explain how Asian carriers can afford to pay their contract expat pilots more that double what the USA airlines claim to be able to afford. The local pilots are also paid as well or better than pilots in the USA. Example: the local Indian ATR FO's I flew with in India were paid around...
  3. freight dork

    End of year savings

    Saved $63K in cash in 2010. Mortgage paid off last year, no school loans or credit card debt.....no kids or car. Age 30. Of course, it's not too hard to save money while living in India......
  4. freight dork

    Indian Jet Plummets 7000' because co-pilot moved seat.

    After flying for an Indian airline for two years, this sort of event doesn't even surprise me anymore. In fact I'm surprised that it doesn't happen more often. In India it is normal for a 200 hour pilots to be hired on a Boeing or Airbus. Air India even has 200 hour new hires on the 777. It...
  5. freight dork

    Air Mekong Contract

    I fly an ATR 72 in India for Kingfisher Airlines. The pay is $8500/month net of Indian taxes, plus housing allowance of $1000 (used to be $1500/month). 12 weeks of leave each year with airline tickets paid by the company. It is not all roses though.......when at work we have one day off per...
  7. freight dork

    ASA Vietnam base?

    I bet that the Vietnamese pilots are gonna be pi$$ed that their jobs are being outsourced to cheap American labor.
  8. freight dork

    Cabotage

    I posted my first paragraph before finishing the thread. FreightDork, can you find out how much an Air India Pilot earns both as FO and CA? I'm not sure what Air India pilots earn but it is definitely as much as a major airline pilot in the US, also being a gov't carrier there is great job...
  9. freight dork

    Cabotage

    It never ceases to amaze me how naive Americans are about the rest of the world. The ATR FO's I fly with in India think that I'm joking when I tell them what a regional pilot makes in the US. The Indian FO's on local/permanent contracts make $4000 USD per month and most will make it into the...
  10. freight dork

    2009 outlook for horizon

    Hey "v" don't listen to uninformed small minded people like "stay low" who think that the US lives in it's own little bubble. I'm currently working overseas and have worked in both Europe and Asia and there have been PLENTY of Americans working with me in both places. Although I can't...
  11. freight dork

    Ryanair set for £8 flights to US ($13)

    Ryanair fo's don't really get paid. They pay for their own type rating, uniform, recurrent training, airport parking. They pay for their own hotel during line training. They don't get paid during line training. But they get to fly shiny new jetz. Most time I've been on Ryanair the fo only...
  13. freight dork

    Questioning this profession...

    I don't know why everybody thinks that foreign pilots would be willing to fly airliners for less money that American pilots are willing to do it for. I'm a contract pilot in the ATR and have flown as capt on 3 continents in the ATR and the USA job was by far my lowest paying job. Also the USA...
  14. freight dork

    Aer Arann pay and QOL

    I don't think that they are doing validations on FAA licenses any more. The contact agencies specify only JAA licenses now. I know things are slowing down there and they are having about 10 fo's take unpaid leave for the winter. Europe is in as bad of a recession as the US, therefore airlines...
  15. freight dork

    Anybody know about Euro-pacific and Ryanair?

    For RyanAir info check out pprune.org and you'll find plenty of information about them.
  16. freight dork

    the dream gone forever?

    Think outside of the box. UPS/FDX aren't the only good jobs in the world. There are plenty of good paying jobs overseas. Going rate for ATR and CRJ capts hovers around $10,000/month and more for larger equipment. I'd recommend a flying job outside of the USA to anybody who can do it. There...
  17. freight dork

    'Conversion' of FAA ATP to ICAO/JAA ATP?

    To convert from an FAA license to a JAA license you have to take/pass 14 theorhetical exams and then take a LST (license skills test). Plan to spend 2-3 months full time on the exams. The cost is significant as well. I did it last summer, feel free to PM me with any questions
  19. freight dork

    Age 65 will cause FURLOUGHS and DOWNGRADES

    Yes, you're right, the flight crew will have a thick foreign AMERICAN ACCENT.... Actually it'll be the Americans who are undercutting everybody and taking all the foreign jobs. I'm not sure what world you're living in, but American pilots are among the lowest paid (although most experienced)...
  20. freight dork

    Details about the near-crash in Germany

    I would be willing to bet that the FO on this flight had less than 1000 hours total time. In Europe most FO's are extremely unexperienced. They have "junior" FO's here (less than 1500 hours total) and you can spot them because they only have two stripes on their epaulettes. I see the two...
  21. freight dork

    Contract flying?

    It's funny how the people who bash overseas contract flying are the people who have never done it. The best move I ever made was leaving my US 121 carrier and going on contracts. I make the same pay as a 10 United FO. In Dec I flew 55 hours with 5 overnights and Christmas off, and that was a...
  22. freight dork

    RYANAIR.....Yeah baby!!!!

    Maybe someone could find a like to the RyanAir 2008 FA calendar. I bought it on board, really hot!!!
  23. freight dork

    Hey Undies and Empty Nipple kids, wanna go to Jetblue?

    Just so you all know, Cape Air operates ATR's out of Guam, so there's a good chance that the JB flowthrough pilots would have a good amount of turbine time. I'd even go so far as to say that they'd have better experience than most because they'd start their careers in piston twin, then move...
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