Originally Posted by
BZNpilot248
Guildenstern - first off... WOOF WOOF! Love the avatar and the movie! Kelly's Heroes is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time! Donald Sutherland will always be "Oddball" in my mind, even though he's had many other great roles.
I keep him on all my avatars to remind me to watch out wit' those neg-a-tive waves.
IA as in Instrument Airplane on my CFI cert. We got hollered at about "CFII" because we had some hardcore FARskiteers where I taught. I wish I could fix things, I mostly just brake things diffrently when I try and fix stuff.
Originally Posted by
BZNpilot248
I'd look for some 135 jobs in the area honestly - they are usually looking for pilots more often and you might find a livable scenario. Its not always ideal and you'll have to get over some trust/maint issues you talked about (may not be perfect, new or clean, but SAFE is the key, but you will burn oil, leak oil, have deffered stuff, its deffinitly not the airlines.) As far as the WX standards, you wouldn't necessarily have weather radar and you have to go with your gut, what you see out the window, and solicit help from ATC.
You mostly described my Airline experience. Soft spots in the floors, We'll call Mx in at the end of the day, Very dirty leaky PWC-123's, No one knew how to use the DASH-8's Radar (Captains were suposibly taught, and FO's wern't, either way they were turned off or ignored a lot.)
Originally Posted by
BZNpilot248
A little extra planning before the flight is what separates the safe pilots who are sucessful and move on from the reckless onces that end up with problems or worse an accident etc.
See that was a problem I had in 121. "Dispatcher says go." was the sum total of most of my CA's preflight planning. I liked planning, most of the time I didn't know the route,or even the day's schedule, untill I was pluging it into the FMS. And I didn't have the free time to check the Wx (what little we got) untill cruse.
I'd love to find a good 135 op in Cleveland but it really seems like the Sargasso of the sky up here. There's some Jet operators who won't even look at me, and some flight schools who "offer" air taxi but no one has ever seen them carry a passenger. (they use High Performance twins as CFI bait)
The hardest part for me is the Networking. I'm not a people person, at all. I forget names and faces faster then it takes to finish a conversation. And I practicaly have a phobia towards bothering people I don't know.
I blame my current delemma on kinda being a mentor to two kids that were at the school that I taught
. One was a student I had to pass off because I just wasn't clicking with him on a teaching level and the other was just an "older" student who I would talk to because nobody else seemed to want to put up with him since "he's forign and talks funny" (yea rock on colledge kids!) Both of them call me anytime they hit a milestone or need another way of understanding something. And both of them demand I stay in aviation. It was annoying at first being told I did infact like eveything I was angry about at the time by a kid who didn't have their Commercial yet, But lately it has been making me think.
To Byris:
Lest just say I'm the kind of person the Car dealership gets all excited about when I call in a service appointment. I can't sleep untill my stuff is right. That is why I'll need a 7 figure salary to own a plane without loosing my mind.