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Originally Posted by
cactusflyer
I can't remember the name, but I think you're referring to the guy who was the only non-flying BCP at Horizon.
You're probably thinking of Gary S., the base chief pilot for Seattle. He was a nice guy to most of us. For everyone else, he was in the "management material, but not an idiot" category. We could use a few more people like him.
On a side note (or is it a "snide" note?), most of our managers would fall into the "non-flying" category. Every one of them claims to be a line pilot "just like us", but the reality is that most of them would prefer to lie down in a bathtub full of live rattlesnakes than fly an actual airplane. It would be great if all of our managers would be required to fly at least six bids out of the year. They'd have to fly the same trips, stay in the same crappy hotels, and deal with fatigue, late vans, and 2-hour flow delays. It's fun to pretend to be a line pilot, but the reality involves a lot of hard work and patience.