Originally Posted by
Lambourne
The few 570's I have flown with were not the cream of the crop. Definitely a profile the company was looking for at the time: people unhireable anywhere else. They were play dough and ALPA beat the company to the punch with molding them. Amazing what free beer can do
A majority of the 570 had zero previous airline experience. Hired at a time when almost all the other major carriers were only hiring high time experienced pilots. The 570 were not the genuises they like to portray themselves as. In fact our MEC Vice Chair is the poster boy for the incompetence of the 570. Arrogant and impossible to reason or work with, he carries the 570 flag. Ask anyone that has dealt with him in and out of the cockpit and you'll get any number of stories. I wouldn't pick up his water bottle in the bunk room on the 400, if you believe the rumors
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Okay Lambourne I sure agree with most people about the chest thumping of the 570 and that type of stuff but if you are going to question the hiring I will bite.
In a class I am familiar with out of 12 we had 3 ex-continental, and 1 that left fed-ex after a couple years, there were 3 out of the military 2 air force and one navy, the air force were 1 transport and 1 fighter type, the navy was an f-4 pilot that did not come back when the 570 were recalled, he had gone to Usair. There were 2 corporate types that were flying nice corporate jets, 2 commuter pilots from the west coast and 1 general aviation.
Again, I agree with the chest thumping and some go on and on, however lke most things that is not all of them. I also don't like the ones that crossed and I can give you the numbers that worked both sides of the fence. I also get tired of hearing from some that think they saved the world, I understand that gets old after 25 years.
There was also a comment on here about being trained and not turning a wheel? I think whoever posted that have your groups mixed up as the majority of 570 were trained and waiting to get called and most of them when the call came did not go because of the strike however the trained and not turning a wheel is a different group that does not get discussed to often.
By the way Lambourne when was it you were hired?