DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2014 About 3 weeks ahead of you already have it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 Leased a Wilco Embraer 170 for €2 million deposit and €920k p/m. Assigned out all A/C and pilots and we will pick up approx €1.8 million by tomorrow morning. Business is going good 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted August 3, 2014 Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 HA! I guess the Business Financial meeting went well? Vice President and CFO DublinPilatus has actualy Leased an aircraft. :D The only limit now to the growth of your company is your level of Humanity while scheduling AI flights. Have fun with the new bird! I don't have one of those! Screenshots when you get a chance please! Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 Yes I finally convinced the oul fella to get on board with the idea of leasing I won't be flying it until next week (I'm off to Lanzarote for a week on Tuesday) so I'll take the time to read up on the 170. I can't wait to get flying in it, it should be good! I'll try post some screenshots later The Vice President is in his element flying his Cessna Caravan haha 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Sorry I couldn't get screenshots Matt. I'm relaxing in 40*C heat here in GCRR. Might be going to the airport in the morning to spot for a while (there's a beach behind the runway like TNCM) so I might get some good shots for you 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Sorry I couldn't get screenshots Matt. I'm relaxing in 40*C heat here in GCRR. Might be going to the airport in the morning to spot for a while (there's a beach behind the runway like TNCM) so I might get some good shots for you Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 I'm home. Leased another 170 and opened 2 bases in Doncaster Sheffield and Merignac Link to post Share on other sites
Corsaire31 419 Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Merignac, you're getting close to my home grounds ! If you make a stop at Toulouse Blagnac, drop a msg ! Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 No doubt I'll be there soon I've been in and out of Millau/Larzac lately but I'll be in Toulouse soon Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 More excitement! We took another huge step up and leased a PMDG Boeing 737-800 with a capacity of over 37000!! Bases in Epinal and Millau/Larzac were closed. Nearly all bases have ILS and decent sized runways (>8000ft). Link to post Share on other sites
Corsaire31 419 Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 Hehe ! You guys are soon going to rule the world ! My celtic company started in Nov 2013 still operates 1 Cessna Caravan ( recently sold the second one which I used to start the company ) and 3 Islanders ... But thats the way I wanted it, small company, small problems ! Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 Gratz on the expansion Matt. Sorry bout the rep loss for closing your bases...god I hate that....up to 2 points per base. I often keep old bases open and post a small bird there to avoid that rep loss and justify it as "servicing legacy small customers". But really, I do it to retain the option to fly small loads in the old familiar neighborhood because flying those heavies around to often bores me to tears...but I sure do like the Income...hehe. Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 I've left 1 or 2 small bases open for the next while (until I can be sure as hell that mr vice presidente can fly the DC-3) but the cash flow with the 3 jets is phenomenal! €3 million taken in since last night with another €1 million by morning! That will improve when I go back for my last year of school because I'll have < 2 hours per day for free time which will mean the 737 will be out quite a lot more (I have my Leaving Certificate exams next May). Hoping by then that we will be a massive intercontinental company Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Opened up Canadian ops, starting in St Anne's des Monts, Quebec. Leased another DC-3 and sent a Caravan and a Cargomaster from Europe to operate there for now. Hoping to have a jet based in Canada by September 20th-25th Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 We finally have our first wide-body aircraft. We leased an Aerosim Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner tonight! Jobs are "flying in" (get it ) left right and centre. Some interesting destinations e.g Seychelles, Khartoum, Aswan etc. Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Woot. Congrats on the expansion. Well...looks like the accounting consultation re: Leasing in Air hauler, clearly it has lit the burner under your company. You did read the contract right? You may remit 15% of Income, before expenses, to Eureka We Haul It, KFOT Atten: Pat Moran, CFOCB (Chief Financial Officer and Carpet Bagger). Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted August 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Sure that's just loose change. Here have a couple of hundred thousand euro it's ok Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted September 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 Dalton School of Aviation has opened! Our new strategy is to hire fATPL pilots and have them progress on small aircraft flying jobless runs in planes like the Baron 58 in order for their reps to go up. They'll progress up to the next airplane type based on each milestone rank that they reach May seem like a bad idea but sure I'll keep at it anyways Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 The air creation trike ultralight is a good way to separate the fliers from the crashers at very minimal ri$k.. .if they aren't hauling cargos...cubs work well too. I did similar a while ago. I would hire Any pilot on the resume list with a report over 90% and assign them about 48 hours worth of " position aircraft to airport"...and fire anyone who busted their Trike/Club/172 below 90%. If they made the training cut...they move into the first tier of cargo hauler for that company or wait for an opening...and if they break that below 90 % in one day a trainee will be ready for that seat. Once they get into the bigger birds Stuff still happens...so it takes a 75% or lower day to put them on suspension or bust them down to a smaller bird...rarely happens. Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted September 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 That's actually a clever idea! If I hadn't have already went and spent 2 hours last night implementing a whole new system I would've probably went that way. Not bad though Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted September 6, 2014 Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 Whichever way you work the details you hit the nail on the head by moving them up slowly up through your fleet. Some AI's have a built in hidden attributes that relate to Timely-ness, Accident proneness, and I believe there may be a "random tendency to say fark it...I'm taking the day off"...seriously, I have come back the next day to find AI's just sitting around looking at 3 unfinished jobs. Best to I.D. those AI early on in less expensive cargos like you are doing. But, don't limit yourself to "training" low rank pilots...put EVERY pilot through your training program for a while at least to ferret out any of those hidden attributes in those High Rep/High Rank pilots on the job board. Definitely don't assume that since he/she is a Training Captain that they won't break your airplanes or leave cargo sitting on the ramp...even Pilots lie on their Resumes. Good luck on your pilot school. I think it's a great idea...and would go so far as to suggest that every cargo company should have a training pilot program and a flight school to train and hire local people to your company...esp. up in remoter areas like Alaska. Hire Local, Hire Loyal, Hire Hardy. Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted September 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 Cheers matt! I was given My Traffic 5.2 by a friend earlier so I'm in the midst of setting that up (which is turning out to be a right pain in the you know whats) Whenever I get any free time this week I'll probably look into organising the whole flight school thing a little more Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Nothing much has happened in the past while on AH as I've been extremely busy lately. Just assigning out pilots every 2 days to keep the money flowing! I was in Leeds for the past 3 days and got to get inside a Ryanair cockpit! I have a video of the landing from my seat over the wing which I'll upload to youtube later and link it to this post! Now time to beat the rainy Dublin blues and go haul some freight! Link to post Share on other sites
DublinPilatus 5 Posted November 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2014 Well its been nearly 2 months since I've been on here. Quite a lot has happened to be fair! We've leased another 2 737-800's. I picked up Aersoft's Airbus A320/21 X and leased 2 A321's from that. Leased another 170 and leased 2 E190's. As for bases, well we've went bizerk with them. We opened up in Fly Tampa's Dubai. That was followed by Charlotte (KCLT), Rapid City (KRCA), San Francisco (although I've set that as in-active for the time being), Laconia (KCLI), Fly Tampa's St Maarten, Moose Jaw (CYMJ), my beloved Dublin with Aerosoft's Dublin Scenery (at last ), HEGN in Egypt and 2 bases in the Canary's (GCRR and GCLP). What a difference 2 months can make! I've been extremely busy with work and exams hence why I havent been posting as much. I was in EGNM for a few days and managed to get inside the cockpit of a Ryanair 737, got talking to the captain for over a half an hour on the stand in Dublin. She's a beauty of a cockpit when you see her in person I can tell you's that! Enough of my chit-chat. Hows things with yourselves? Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,287 Posted November 8, 2014 Report Share Posted November 8, 2014 Hi Matt, glad you found time to get back in the drivers seat. Everything is going good here, as a matter of fact life is good and our hobby is going strong. Link to post Share on other sites
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