Originally Posted by gsu50
Oh my, I misspelled a word, I better go shoot myself. I was merely pointing out that there are other options. What the hell is wrong with you people? Getting upset over every little thing someone posts, mostly in jest.
And about in your day being qualified above all others. Things have changed since then, and they are about to change again in a big way again, I think. I've been instructing at Vance for 2 years now and the product we put out from here now is far different from even when I went through just seven years ago...so I guarantee it is a world of difference from what you went through and the skills you were taught while you were here.
In the first place, I said
if one (an AFA grad) were qualified, he had a ...
Not "qualified above all others." Secondly, if those
skills you speak of now are in any way similar to the cockpit management skills of today's newer-generation equipment, more power to ya. Old fashioned dive-bombing and strafing took certain skills as well, but I digress. The Falcon 900 EXs we fly are truly state-of-the-art machines, but the complexity of the systems and the resultant mission integration isn't that tough of a nut to crack, even for old troops like me. Finally, your posts here, and like that in your
tete-a-tete with the FedEx guy,
appear a little condescending, and twinged with a hint of jealousy. That may not be the intent, they just come across that way. FWIW, the more important aspect of which I wrote, is the post-career networking opportunities offered in professions far more lucrative, and even more satisfying, than flying the proverbial line...