Originally Posted by
mexipilot84
We don’t single engine taxi because we don’t care about fuel savings, the customers pay for the fuel. Welcome to ACMI. Single engine taxi you’re maneuver limited and in small airports that’s a hazard. It’s in the book it’s discouraged. There is single engine taxi procedures, it’s for an air start. FCOM 1 chapter 4. If I can taxi on both then it’s no big deal, mean by the time I’m at the runway I’ve had my 2 engine warm up and ready to roll. Our procedures were created when we were just a VIP carrier going to FBOs when you can launch right away.
Fuel may be paid for but why would you not want to save it? The more fuel left over the less the company has to spend on additional fuel for ferrying an empty airplane. Means more money in the bank account. You have obviously never experienced a bankruptcy where at the end the airline encourages pilots to save fuel, and bargain for better ground handling rates at FBO’s.
You have it all figured out, you can apply for the DO position if you want, you can unmake us as a 36th st mafia airline as you call us. I guess you haven’t checked out world Atlantic.
Change can be unsettling but it is necessary to survive. Complacency is a killer Mexi. North American, World, Ryan, Primaris, ATA, we used to be kings until Delta with their damned processes and SOP started showing up in places like Kuwait, and Amman, and Langley. They scooped the business from underneath us. Having a contract with a travel company that pays for fuel means nothing. How many times does a travel company go under owing ACMI’s a few million? How many court cases have been petitioned? How many of these 3rd world travel companies just disappear without paying an ACMI what it was owed leaving Americans without jobs?
It’s an honorable thing you do - sticking up for your employer-just don’t drink the juice. You aren’t doing anything that hasn’t been done before.
What a thread - a gift that keeps on giving!
Lack of expeirence along with previously or working with a company that spoon feeds you everything you need, does not make you a 121 Sup pilot or know what he or she has to do to get the job done.
Interesting statement as previous experience is usually a hiring requirement(also in this case, an ATP). Not to mention in this thread a check airman has previously stated that a group of pilots he refers to as ‘go-jet guys’ are the sharpest of the bunch, so just an FYI.
Most 121 Sup Ops still requires true aviators.
All the “true aviators” are dead or retired. We are flying passengers not 1900’s air mail.
Regionals make it way to easy for the restricted ATP pilots and they should because of lack of knwledge and expierence.
Regionals don’t make anything easy. They will hire anyone that meets minimums because the training programs are intense. If you can make it through the ground portion and IOE you are worthy of being a 121 pilot.
If you want a challenge on how very well seasoned older airline pilots got the job done and still do as aviators than 121 Sup OPS is your thing. If you do stick with it and learn, it will just make you a much better pilot and give you a better understanding of a scheduled ops deals with that a 121 sch pilot has no idea of.
You need to provide an example of things a 121 sup PIC can do that a regular 121 pilot cannot-otherwise you are just blowing smoke.
If not stay at the regionals be your self intitled pilot who has no idea of what the real world of flying used to be or still is to a degree. Regional pilots just show up they dont manage its done for them.
Flying used to be dangerous, remember? Cowboys die. You seem to imply that SOP doesn’t work or is a barrier to safe efficient operations. Regional pilots show up and get the job done to a standard that has been set (usually by major airline). To express the idea that the PIC of a regional jet has no thought or care when it comes to going flying is absurd.
You come across as a grumpy old pilot who still believes steam gauges trump electronics and that paper got a bad deal with the advent of tablets. You the chief pilot or DO of this operation jeffe?