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Excargodog 03-11-2019 08:21 PM


Originally Posted by kuma66 (Post 2780353)
Is it an issue of understaffing at CAE?

65 ac vs 547 pilots at Air Whiskey is what? 8.4 pilots per aircraft?

By contrast, Republic has 2445 for 189 or 12.9.

Piedmont has 746 for 48 or 15.5.

TSA has 600 for 63 or 9.5.

Only Mesa at 1200 for 145 is comparable at 8.3.

OF COURSE STAFFING IS A FACTOR. They need to work the tails off their pilots to have adequate manning to fly the aircraft.

Air Whiskey is where you go if you don’t really care about quality of life and just want to log hours and move on quickly to somewhere better. And if that’s what you want, it’s great. If not, not so great.

But WHY ON EARTH would you want CAE when you live a 90 minute drive from IAD? That REALLY sounds like self inflicted punishment.

kuma66 03-12-2019 04:27 AM


Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 2780369)
65 ac vs 547 pilots at Air Whiskey is what? 8.4 pilots per aircraft?

By contrast, Republic has 2445 for 189 or 12.9.

Piedmont has 746 for 48 or 15.5.

TSA has 600 for 63 or 9.5.

Only Mesa at 1200 for 145 is comparable at 8.3.

OF COURSE STAFFING IS A FACTOR. They need to work the tails off their pilots to have adequate manning to fly the aircraft.

Air Whiskey is where you go if you don’t really care about quality of life and just want to log hours and move on quickly to somewhere better. And if that’s what you want, it’s great. If not, not so great.

But WHY ON EARTH would you want CAE when you live a 90 minute drive from IAD? That REALLY sounds like self inflicted punishment.

That’s easy—I want the most efficient route to not sitting reserve, and to upgrading. I do have a business to run at home which fortunately can be done pretty easily over the phone and computer. Now if things were to change at IAD from what I am hearing about long reserve times, that might sweeten the pot.

DarkSideMoon 03-12-2019 07:33 AM


Originally Posted by kuma66 (Post 2780467)
That’s easy—I want the most efficient route to not sitting reserve, and to upgrading. I do have a business to run at home which fortunately can be done pretty easily over the phone and computer. Now if things were to change at IAD from what I am hearing about long reserve times, that might sweeten the pot.

Hard to run a business when you’re wasting half your off days commuting and most overnights are 12 hours or less. Most schedules are 4 on, 3 off, so you’ll be lucky to have one full day off at home. Over integration (the first and last few days of the month) when schedules overlap you’ll likely end up working six days in a row with one day off with relative frequency.

squib 03-13-2019 07:50 PM


Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon (Post 2780624)
Hard to run a business when you’re wasting half your off days commuting and most overnights are 12 hours or less. Most schedules are 4 on, 3 off, so you’ll be lucky to have one full day off at home. Over integration (the first and last few days of the month) when schedules overlap you’ll likely end up working six days in a row with one day off with relative frequency.

Guess you didn’t read the part where he said he can run his business over the phone or from a computer.

domino 03-14-2019 10:05 AM

Attitude is everything. And also get in and get out as quick as you can to the majors so you can get some QOL back.

squib 03-14-2019 06:40 PM


Originally Posted by domino (Post 2782424)
Attitude is everything. And also get in and get out as quick as you can to the majors so you can get some QOL back.

Yea, Because this industry hires caucasian men at the rate subway hands out napkins for a $12 footlong.

Paid2fly 03-14-2019 11:00 PM


Originally Posted by squib (Post 2782700)
yea, because this industry hires caucasian men at the rate subway hands out napkins for a $12 footlong.





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Roverruckus 03-15-2019 04:34 PM

Even if they hired every single woman/black guy/black woman/unicorn no questions asked that would probably be not even 10% of the professional pilot population. So while your chances are lower because of that it's definitely a terrible attitude to have blaming outside forces instead of taking responsibility for your own improvement.

DarkSideMoon 03-15-2019 04:46 PM


Originally Posted by Roverruckus (Post 2783237)
Even if they hired every single woman/black guy/black woman/unicorn no questions asked that would probably be not even 10% of the professional pilot population. So while your chances are lower because of that it's definitely a terrible attitude to have blaming outside forces instead of taking responsibility for your own improvement.

Can you please placard a copy of this in every airplane? Couldn’t agree more.

Excargodog 03-15-2019 04:57 PM


Originally Posted by squib (Post 2782700)
Yea, Because this industry hires caucasian men at the rate subway hands out napkins for a $12 footlong.


There’s an easy fix if you want it:

Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners

Decision Considerations - Aerospace Medical Dispositions
Item 48. General Systemic - Gender Dysphoria
Gender Dysphoria - All Classes
Disease/Condition Evaluation Data Disposition
A. Completed gender reassignment surgery 5 or more years ago
OR
Treated with hormone therapy for 5 or more years

ISSUE
Annotate block 60.


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