Originally Posted by
whoareyou311
Oh I know who you are now..."Mr. I am entitled to that left seat"....while I have sat in the right seat being a check airmen instructing and being a captain. All fun and games though for you though right?? You are sticking up for a bunch of people who have no business being in the left seat based purely on safety. You didn't screw me out of an upgrade( I'm too junior) I don't care about any of that. I'm sick of your white knight attitude both on here and airlinks. I can't wait to fly with you in NYC someday. I'll do my job and that's it, and I pray to god you are the 1% of colgan pukes I won't have to instruct or act as PIC, because I am sick and tired of it and I don't get paid enough to do it.
You realize this is a weak argument right?
Most Colgan CAs didn't have Mesaba guys giving them instruction / OE. So it's purely on Pinnacle LCAs who passed "deficient" airmen as to why we FOs might have to "CFI".
And no excuses for the company pushing LCAs to pass guys with lots of OE. Company pushing caused MKE.
Pinnacle pilots aren't any worse, and many times aren't any better than the guys from the other airlines we merged with.
I have flown with the OP as his FO, and he is as good or better than every other CA with whom I have shared a flight deck.
How anyone can stick up for the punitive nature of 9E "training" I will never understand.