Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
Amen! It torques me off to no end how uneducated so many in our pilot group are about what you wrote about above.
Case in point, when discussing the A220-300 and how we went with the MAX7 instead, I’ve had several FOs comment, “Good, I didn’t want to fly an RJ anyway”. That “RJ” has the same capacity as the majority of airplanes in our fleet and even greater range, not to mention a FAR nicer cockpit.
Talk about the ultimate facepalm moment. Not surprisingly they all were on their first airline gig at SWA.
I got similar comments from the left seat. I tried to tell them that thing could carry 140 pax from ISP to BUR nonstop without runway issues on either end, but they still thought it was an RJ and nothing I said was going to change their minds.
The absolute WORST comment I got though was from a former single seat fighter pilot who said that military pilots shouldn’t have to fly the “RJ” and should be given some kind of superseniority when hired and fly the 737 - out of seniority if necessary - if we got that type. He was serious!! WTF?!
The same guy asked what would happen if an A220 FO wanted to upgrade to 737 captain with no 737 experience.
I was like… “uh…he bids it, he is awarded it, and he goes to school?”
He told me that couldn’t happen. You had to be a 737 copilot before you could upgrade on a 737.
I attempted to reason with him by explaining that at the legacies there are lots of times when an FO might never have flown a type before upgrading to Captain on it. He told me I was wrong and that couldn’t happen. Mind you this is the one and only airline he has ever worked for and has apparently never had communication with a pilot from any other airline…? 🙄