Why don't they hire locals for half the wage instead of making pilots waste up to a year doing unskilled labor. It's no wonder Buffalo Joe has such a high turnover in pilots.
shareI suspect that few people who know him will work for him.
shareThe big problem with that is you would end up with a constant turnover of poor quality unreliable workers. With the job market in western Canada the way it's been for awhile now, anybody that has a good work ethic and is reliable would be working for the mines or the oil & gas sector. The rampies job is one of those thankless jobs that requires someone to be there at all kinds of crazy hours. Pilots are motivated to put up with it knowing that they will eventually move on to something better.
shareBut the problem is good pilot candidates have to fill in for useless rampies who quit and lose valuable flying time they need for certification, ie, when that star Aussie pilot had fill in for that newfie who quit. Juts like a race to the bottom.
shareYes, that is unfortunate but the sad reality is that its not a good time to be a young pilot in the current market. I don't think it's so bad in Canada but the recession down in the USA has caused a major imbalance between supply and demand so I imagine Joe has a whole stack of pilot resumes to draw from anytime someone decides to call it quits.
I missed a bunch of episodes. Did the Aussie eventually get flying or did he end up leaving?
After the episode he was never mentioned again.
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I assume he left, and who could blame him? The gall of Buffalo to bring an asset like him on board then hand him a broom and a clipboard and ask him to work in the warehouse. Any pilot hired by an airline with over 10K hours and ATP command experience would expect to FLY. I do not recall which details of his employment offer were revealed but no matter how much the guy wanted to fly vintage prop liners I doubt he would have traveled so far unless his offer was to work and be compensated as a pilot.