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Just wanted to throw an update out here. So it's been a year since I applied, and I got my message a couple of days ago. Got it! I'll be able to, over the next couple of years, provide updated information if anyone else is looking to head down this path. Got my message Monday, and I head out for...

Almost. The glass cockpits started to come in on our Es and Hs in 2010. We still have an E model kicking around with the old analog gauges, and the glass cockpit updates were done on the rest of the fleet from 2010 until just this past summer. Not even close to all of the aircraft were upgraded...

Ouch. 323 was like that, but she finally went off to die. And 308 was made airworthy after three years parked, and flew off to Cascade recently, so it was nice to empty the flightline a little bit!

424 does not have rest facilities, can't speak for the other squadrons.

Good ol' 307. Currently my hangar queen nightmare. 

So in the last three years, I've done both a change to married name, and then recently, a formal and legal name change. The married name was a way bigger pain in the arse. If your OR staff are on point, it's relatively painless. However, between two of my ORs, somehow I ended up with two...

Which unit did he get?

Spoke to the OR in Trenton on Thursday, they told me they had about four thousand files back from the PIL team, and that they were about halfway through inputting them into the pay system here. My husband is getting his Mid-April, mine's still nowhere to be seen. Mine was simple, under 10 G's...

Almost 7 years here, still baffles me. High-five to getting PIL someday, hahaha!

I had them take off an extra few hundred on top of what they suggested, because I knew EI was only taxed at 10%. Still wasn't enough, obviously! Bah well, you live, you learn, and one kid is enough for me, so I won't have to go through that again!

I guess I missed that one. Don't think too many people end up there though, not out of Borden, anyway. Caveat -- I left Borden almost seven years ago, so things may have changed, however, our new apprentices maintain that most new people are Cold Lake and Trenton, and scattered from there.

If you're looking for Griffon, it'll likely be Petawawa, Bagotville, Cold Lake, Borden, Edmonton or Valcartier -- Trenton's Griffons are maintained by civilian AMEs. Canadian Helicopters maintains them, and I know our guys here make decent money -- have you looked into that?

Big answer? It depends. Just here in Trenton, if you work at 424 (SAR Sqn,) you'll generally be 7:00am - 3:00pm one week Mon - Fri, then 3:00pm - 11:00pm the next. There are also times you'll have to be on duty crew, where you're on call all weekend and 11:00pm to 7:00am every week night. You...

According to the OR, I had them take out extra taxes while I was on MATA leave, and they said it would be plenty. Funny thing, I ended up owing four grand come tax time. That stung with a new baby! Someday, my PIL will come....  :P

I ended up with three Tcats and no Pcat. I was waiting for surgery through the first two, had my surgery during the third one, and they just let it run expired for my few month recovery. I asked about it, because I knew that I'd be fine once my recovery was over. I did a medical once I...

1. Your post title says AVN tech, and then your post is asking about an avionics tech -- which one are you looking for? An AVN is an aviation systems tech, and avionics is an AVS tech. Either way, your answer is yes, and no. Lots of us have deployed, and lots have not. If you're talking about...

I've been asking for a posting for three years. My husband just got promoted last year, we offered to go to Cold Lake, Greenwood, Winnipeg, anywhere at all, and were turned down. It's definitely not for lack of trying!

Thanks for the merge and the other topic info!  :) I've heard much of the same from the few people I know who've done it. The good thing is, my husband is on steady days over here, with only one short TD a year, so when I do need childcare, at least it'll only be for the time he's at work. I'm...

I'm currently an AVN, and have just finished up my application to do a stint as a flight attendant on the Airbus. I've done a few searches on here for flight attendant, and haven't seen anything come up. I just searched for flight steward, because they're related, and I thought it might garner...

You should have a MATA/PATA clerk at your base orderly room. They'll know about the pension thing, and mine offered me a form so I could elect to take more taxes off of my military top-up (because EI doesn't take enough taxes, and you'll end up owing come tax time.) They recommended me a certain...