Flying Trucker wrote on Jan 18^th, 2013 at 7:34am:


As a regular watcher of the TV series; "Ice Pilots"; very sad news, Doug!

A Gentle Giant!

Paul.

So sorry to hear about Arnies death. Like most I only knew him from the "Ice Pilots" series, but he is a great lose to aviation and the world in general. My thoughts go out to his family.
May he fly on other wings.

Zaphod.

As you all know, I don't normally do online sympathy, however I will make the exception for Arnie Schreder. Since the first episode of that show, it was "plane" to see his passion for flying and ability to to pass on his knowledge in a manner where even when he put a pilot down, it was a learning experience and not a set back for said pilot. Ice Pilots is a great show, but the management and treatment of the younger pilots, that being treat them like shit and see if they stay and then if they do, treat them like the long estranged child who wants to rejoin the family fold, now that Arnie has passed on, I think that the turn over of young pilots in that company, well,  if they had a revolving front door, it would never stop turning...
In the last episodes, let a pilot fly a DC3 once in a month and then criticise them for poor performance and put them to the back of the line........
And don't even get me started on how they treat the people in the cargo department. I realise that life is hard in that part of the world due to the weather, but feeling for your employees...............


Matt

expat wrote on Jan 19^th, 2013 at 2:46am:


I was thinking that way too on the episode when that young female pilot left to be a flight attendant. I was thinking maybe it was because they are a 'small business'....but with the exception of 2 very brief times I have always (and currently) work in small business. Revolving doors like the one at Buffalo spring up because of mistreatment like you point out. I really hope 'Buffalo Joe' can turn that habit around.