Originally Posted by
UnderOveur
Well, I guess that means I would be screwed. I busted my 1st CommASEL the same way, and like you the DPE felt worse about it than I did! Went back the next afternoon after a quick session with my CFI and passed with flying colors.
Thank God I don't want to fly for the Regionals. If they are THAT friggin' anal I wouldn't want to work for any of 'em anyway!
This whole thread makes me laugh. From what I can gather, they expect a guy to be perfect...on paper and otherwise...but want to pay him/her peanuts while treating them like dog poo...all for the privilege of flying from point A to point B, on the crappiest of schedules, in a rigid seniority system where merit has no meaning or place, for less $$ than a manager at a Taco f'n Bell.
People are INSANE to want a job like that, much less work for the unmitigated JACKASSES who would set such standards.
I'll have to rethink the respect I ha(d)ve for regional pilots. Sure, they worked like slaves to get to where they are, but in reality they are just prostitutes HOPING...praying...to someday fly a bigger jet.
Now I don't know who is worse...the Regional executives and HR morons who live to treat people like dirt, or the morons who "can't wait" to work for them.
Un-f'n-believable. No wonder the airline industry is so screwed up. Jesus.
You are missing the whole point. The regionals never really cared about the number of busts, until someone with 4 or 5 lied on their application and ended up a smoking hole in the ground. It was the flying public and the media that cared about checkride busts after that, and the management caved to the pressure. Now excuse me while this lowlife goes and plays 747 driver on Flight Sim X since thats obviously my dream and all I live for....but it is pathetic we are even having a conversation about lying about a bust. True character...
