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Are all SIA pilots only local Singaporeans/Malaysians or are they a diverse international group? Do they for instance have pilots from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, etc to name a few? These years traveling with SQ, I don't think I have ever seen a Caucasian pilot before with them. Can someone verify?
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They have many Caucasian pilots... a few live in my building & I see them going to work every so often.matt_will_fix_it -
There are bucket loads of western pilots with SQ. Absolutely heaps.
However, almost all western pilots are Captains - there are very few western F/Os or S/Os (I've never met one or flown with one).Comment
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SQ have quite a few western pilots from the following countries, Australia, Canada and England. As one other SQtalker mentioned most of the expats are captains because they have been in the airline for years, now days SQ dont recruit F/O because they have a very successful cadetship program with a requirement that you must be a Singaporean or Malaysian citizen. Inital ground school is done in Singapore, then the cadets are sent to Perth, Australia where they are based at Jandakot Airport, one of the busiest airports in the southern hemisphere. The Cadets do their commercial licence in Perth then are sent to the Sunshine Coast where they do their final training in a small jet, I think its a Citation or Learjet. From there they are sent back to Singapore to complete line training in the Simulators then are sent to work for either SQ, SQ Cargo or Silkair. Once in a while SQ advertise for direct recruitment Captains, I have noticed many of the Tiger Airways pilots based in Singapore are either Australian or South African.
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I've seen Indian Captain as well, if I am not mistaken in recognizing his nationality.Comment
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A 777 Captain mate of mine is a Malaysian of Indian Ethnicity. He did ATH recently tooOriginally posted by N_Architect View Post
. Looks like he'll captain one of my upcoming flights
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I might be wrong about this, but I think SQ used to have many more western captains than they do today. I rarely come across one in my flights these days.Comment
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well, I flew to SIN ex-MAN on the 25th - Indian captain.
Return ex-SIN on the 7th October - American/Canadian - can't differentiate the accents.
Limited use as a sample, but as long as they're qualified to fly, I'm not that interested in the crews origins.
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.Comment
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Went inside the SIA Learjet trainer last weekend at the Amberly Airshow in Brisbane. They actually had 2 jets there on display. And they were selling Blowup A380 Toys... the pricing looked liked it said $50.00. which I thought was a bit step.. only to us all comment that surely it wasn't that price. THe guys writing was bad... it was $5.Originally posted by jetpilot1983 View PostComment
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Deleted.Last edited by viraj735; 20 December 2016, 06:25 PM.The world's too large a place not to go wandering.Comment
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viraj735, thanks for the contribution but I would hesitate to announce to the world your uncle's name in a public forum unless he's OK with it. But then again, I'm not so sure SQ would....Comment
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But one thing sure about some of the local Captains, or what you call the other co-pilot.... some of them do sure have bad sounding English... I always cringed when I hear Singlis accent being spoken by the Captain when making his announcements... ok, not always, but you do hear it sometimes.....
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On a flight from SIN-AKL, I saw the captain board the plane. He was definately a westerner. When he made the onboard announcements he had a very charming Aussie/Kiwi accent, can't tell which of the two it was but definately one of those two. Until today I still have troubles differentiating between Aussie & Kiwi accent.Comment
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