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12-19-2018 | 06:41 AM
#161
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From: 7th green
Right on, RG.
We once had a Captain who was a competitive aerobatic pilot. She was probably a better aviatrix than most of the pilots at the airline. Yet, even she had a jackhole passenger demand to get off because the Captain was a female.
What a world.
We once had a Captain who was a competitive aerobatic pilot. She was probably a better aviatrix than most of the pilots at the airline. Yet, even she had a jackhole passenger demand to get off because the Captain was a female.
What a world.
12-19-2018 | 07:14 AM
#162
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From: Supine
Great posts, Radialgal.
I for one will always offer to have dinner/beers with a female first officer. My wife is a pilot who quit to stay home with the kids. Men don’t realize how tough/awkward it can be for a woman to go to a bar or restaurant alone, especially in a hotel. At least offering to accompany them doesn’t mean you are setting yourself up for a career-ending accusation, it means you are a decent human being who is trying to make a co-worker’s day a little easier.
I for one will always offer to have dinner/beers with a female first officer. My wife is a pilot who quit to stay home with the kids. Men don’t realize how tough/awkward it can be for a woman to go to a bar or restaurant alone, especially in a hotel. At least offering to accompany them doesn’t mean you are setting yourself up for a career-ending accusation, it means you are a decent human being who is trying to make a co-worker’s day a little easier.
12-19-2018 | 07:37 AM
#163
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“Did I ever get mistaken for a flight attendant?” About once per trip on average especially back in 2008-2009 when we wore the black “Johnny Cash” uniforms. Once a guy asked me for a soda and I said he’d have to ask the flight attendant. He said “Oh sorry, I didn’t realize you were a gate agent!”
RG, by your experiences and the trauma it has caused you I think you should start your own movement. You can call it. #Mu-2!
RG, by your experiences and the trauma it has caused you I think you should start your own movement. You can call it. #Mu-2!
12-19-2018 | 07:00 PM
#166
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Radial gal,
I have no doubt that we would likely hit a watering hole or two. Most of the under 40 aviators we hire now have nothing close to your background. They have 152/172 time maybe some 3-way Seneca time and then a couple grand of turbo prop/RJ right seat time and they consider themselves to be cut of the same cloth as you...And they are upset that it took them “so long”....They have never heard of an MU-2 or a 402 or a navi hoe....Not really much to talk about anyway...You will still find camaraderie because of who you are and it wont matter how you are plumbed
I have no doubt that we would likely hit a watering hole or two. Most of the under 40 aviators we hire now have nothing close to your background. They have 152/172 time maybe some 3-way Seneca time and then a couple grand of turbo prop/RJ right seat time and they consider themselves to be cut of the same cloth as you...And they are upset that it took them “so long”....They have never heard of an MU-2 or a 402 or a navi hoe....Not really much to talk about anyway...You will still find camaraderie because of who you are and it wont matter how you are plumbed
12-20-2018 | 12:10 AM
#167
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From: Left, right & center
12-20-2018 | 07:24 AM
#168
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
12-20-2018 | 07:52 AM
#169
Sitting and scratching...
Joined: Sep 2012
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From: Upright
“You’re a nice guy and a great captain and I wouldn’t want to see anything happen to you. Just know that the other FAs took offense to some of what you said in the van this morning and with the Me Too movement alive and well these days, I’d be very careful if I were you”.
12-20-2018 | 07:59 AM
#170
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Sexual harassment lawsuits too unfortunately in the era of #metoo.
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