I currently fly a scary (sarcasm for those fearful of flying) 737.

That's pretty cool, which airline do you fly for? I need a "pick hud's pilot brain" thread.

Cool! :thumbs:

I’d rather not say, due to all the stupid crap I say on these forums lol. But if you’ve flown in Canada, you’ve likely flown on my airline.

If the crap you say is stupid what is that saying about stuff I say :ahwow:

Is it a Max 8? :troll:

Inspirational?

No comment. Lol.

AVgeek here. Always loved commercial aviation since I was a kid. But I don't have the time these days to go spotting as much as I used to, unfortunately. If you don't mind me asking, how did you train/get hired, and were you able to keep working during the pandemic?

This might be oversimplified, but my friend took a bunch of classes, built up flight hours, and obtained his licenses through exams. Once he had the proper prerequisites, applied for a regional airline where he's working now. He plans on applying for a commercial airline once he racks up enough flight hours.

He was laid off for what felt like probably a year during the height of the pandemic, but he's been back to work for a while now. He worked a part-time job while he was laid off.

The amount of money you spend on becoming a pilot is no joke.

Not only that, the health requirements are such that your career can be over instantly if you suddenly didn't qualify. That's quite a stressful thing to worry about each year (or maybe that's just me).

For all of the reasons mentioned, those who make a career out of it and make it to retirement, I have huge props for. They followed their dreams with zero fucks given and made it work.

They found a black box containing the voice recorder!



As for getting your licence/job. Honestly this day and age is probably one of the easiest it’s ever been. With the outlook of pilots required, it’s only going to get easier in my eyes. Feeder airline requirements have been extremely low prior to covid. If you get a job there your pretty much set.

- I got my private license at 17.
- Went to a college with a recognized aviation diploma (by the airlines). Graduated.
- Worked a ramp job locally, realized there was no real guarantee to get flying out west.
- Moved to northern Manitoba to throw bags (with said expensive licenses).
- Eventually started flying as a copilot is a small light twin. Moved through their fleet of aircraft from off strip airplanes into hunting camps, mining strips, fly in only communities. Moving dead animals, dead bodies, court parties, fried chicken into and out of said destinations. Flew Medivac aircraft into out of small communities.
- Lucky enough to start a position at a well known Northern Airline, where I lived in Nunavut for 3 years.
- Started at a major carrier where I’ve been for over 10 years. At the time my journey was extremely short, unheard of. My timing was incredible, and I’ve been through a couple layoff periods while being untouched (also unheard of).
I don’t think it’s unrealistic to think someone started today couldn’t do something under a similar timeline.

The medical thing… sure you need to qualify. But you don’t need to be super man to qualify. There is a lot of unknown things in this world that you can’t control. If you worry about passing a medical every year as a young adult, I don’t know how your nerves would handle the unknowns that come with the career.


The major airlines are looking for degrees/recognized aviation diplomas right now. I do see that requirement being a bit of an issue in the future with the forecast requirements.

Enough about me, back on topic.

“ On Mar 25th 2022 the CAAC reported in the 5th press conference, that the gear box of an engine as well as the main landing gear have been found and recovered. Some of the aircraft parts showed traces of fire. The CVR's memory chip is damaged and needs to be sent to the chip manufacturer for repair according to recommendation by the manufacturer. At this time there are no time estimates of when the data can be downloaded.”

From the 7th press conference:
- All 132 people on board the crashed plane have been confirmed dead, as announced by the Deputy Administrator of the CAAC.
- Rescue teams had identified 120 of the victims so far through DNA analysis.
Source: CGTN(China Global Television Network) https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-03-26/C ... index.html

From the 8th press conference:
- New footage from a CCTV camera located 8km north of the crash site has been found, but the footage has not been released.
- The storage unit of the FDR was found on a slope about 40 meters east of the main impact site, at a depth of about 1.5 meters below the surface.
- The storage unit of the FDR appears intact, other parts severely damaged.
- The storage unit has been sent to a decoding lab in Beijing aboard a China Eastern chartered flight.
- So far, a total of 33,777 pieces of debris have been found.
- Compensation work has begun.

As someone who had to move to northern Manitoba for work as well, FUCK THAT SHIT! LOL

I spent many of months in Thompson and surrounding towns. It's so depressing.

I worked in Thompson for a couple years and it is a bit of a shit hole, but the people I met there were great! Boston Pizza was the place to be lol

Pasta Tuesday! Lol. Thompson was rough, but at least it had some form of civilization. Walmart, Safeway… Canadian Tire! What else could you ask for?

Thompson and The Pas for me… with a lot of time in Pukatawagon.

Bruh, I ate at the HUB by mistake one day.... I had no idea. hahahah. I went there at night.

After that it was everyday all day Boston Pizza.

I can vouch for the people there, I did some work for the Airport and some of the people at the Airport were really really good genuine nice people.

Ahhh Thompson Walmart really brought back nostalgic memories of the Guildford Mall Walmart pre-renovations.

When I was there, the Safeway produce always looked like produce big city grocery stores would throw out 🤢.

My go to guilty pleasure was River View Chinese Food.

Cool man I worked at the airport too! (for one of the 2 airlines that operated out of there lol)

Totally agree that people there were awesome and still friends to this day.

I was on a plane once and one of the engines exploded. Fun