It's Time... For ALPA.
01-05-2021 | 05:35 PM
#181
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Wow. That's bad news for FedEx and Delta, then. American will have all the best pilots, and everyone else will have the dregs of aviation: the off-the-street fighter / bomber / cargo military pilots, corporate captains, and non-flow LCAs from regionals. Truly a "b" scale at all those places soon, if you're correct. They might as well fold their operations now.
01-05-2021 | 09:54 PM
#182
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Wow. That's bad news for FedEx and Delta, then. American will have all the best pilots, and everyone else will have the dregs of aviation: the off-the-street fighter / bomber / cargo military pilots, corporate captains, and non-flow LCAs from regionals. Truly a "b" scale at all those places soon, if you're correct. They might as well fold their operations now.
01-05-2021 | 09:59 PM
#183
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01-07-2021 | 12:50 PM
#185
— No Relief On Scope —
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From: B737 Left Seat
This thread brought back memories. Eagle interview in 1999 involved a full day of events including a sim eval in the KC-135. Astronaut physical after that—and I mean thorough. Maybe they should go back to that? LOL
01-10-2021 | 06:48 AM
#186
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From: Picking up the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnix.
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Its really too bad that the reality of the whole life at AMR/Eagle/AA didn't even come close to the level of professionalism that I got during the sim check and oral. Polar opposites really.
When I left there that day, I knew I had met, and been sim checked by a REAL, Old School, American Airlines Senior Line Captain. It really made an impression upon me.
Capt. Wells, I will never forget you. Thank you Sir!
01-10-2021 | 07:09 AM
#187
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Same for me in 1993. I had a really good experience in the sim check, kind of a once in a lifetime kind of deal.
Its really too bad that the reality of the whole life at AMR/Eagle/AA didn't even come close to the level of professionalism that I got during the sim check and oral. Polar opposites really.
When I left there that day, I knew I had met, and been sim checked by a REAL, Old School, American Airlines Senior Line Captain. It really made an impression upon me.
Capt. Wells, I will never forget you. Thank you Sir!
Its really too bad that the reality of the whole life at AMR/Eagle/AA didn't even come close to the level of professionalism that I got during the sim check and oral. Polar opposites really.
When I left there that day, I knew I had met, and been sim checked by a REAL, Old School, American Airlines Senior Line Captain. It really made an impression upon me.
Capt. Wells, I will never forget you. Thank you Sir!
01-11-2021 | 09:53 AM
#188
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From: B737 Left Seat
Yes the old schoolhouse. Wasn’t that a KC-135 sim? At least that’s what I was told. I don’t know the differences. Some years later I walked past it and there were technicians pulling it apart. A guy in my class got one of the yokes.
01-17-2021 | 04:32 PM
#189
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01-17-2021 | 08:55 PM
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Partly true. It was a 707 sim that the Military used for training. Not sure how they changed the flight deck if at all. I was down for recurrent many years back and saw John Travolta using it. Flew it back in 84 but can't remember if it had a visual or camera board. It might have been updated through the years IDK.
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