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03-30-2020, 10:27 AM
#832
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Joined APC: Jul 2017
Posts: 1,349
Originally Posted by Birdsmash
The funny thing is JackStraw would be “overqualified” and probably just a bit rusty to go back and fly a C208 or BE1900. It’s cuts both ways Mr Whale Driver.
I've done both. Honestly one isn't more or less demanding than the other, but there are different considerations. Does it take a better pilot to fly a super cub, a freight MU-2 or a 777? Really it takes a good pilot appropriately trained to do any of it. This also means that we dont automatically earn magic underpants when we cross a certain takeoff weight, etc. I'm painting in broad strokes here, so people can debate the points ad infinitum.
What I think Jack was trying to say was that usually a place flying big jets hires people with experience flying other jets. It reduces the training demands to "learn this plane and these operations" from "high speed, high altitude aerodynamics, turbine theory, basic concepts of energy management, prop v jet performance considerations, etc.".
Just like a place flying props would have to refamiarize people like me with a number of factors like managing manual waste gates, hot starting, visually evaluating the surface you're going to land on and all kinds of other stuff I am dumb about.
It's about the training demands, not the quality of aviator.
03-30-2020, 11:27 AM
#833
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Joined APC: Nov 2012
Position: CE-560 Xtra Large, left
Posts: 36
Originally Posted by CaptDave
Just a heads up, WF sold 20,000 shares of $AAWW stock about 6hrs ago. Value of $496,512.12. Probably in response to the economic stand point and the fact he's heading to AmTrak but still, could give a bad sign to investors and see a deep stock drop tomorrow or monday.
03-30-2020, 07:57 PM
#837
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Position: Wichita
Posts: 684
Originally Posted by Palmtree Pilot
They sure didn’t interview many of the 200 World Airways pilots furloughed in 2012.
and when a pilot is furloughed from an ACMI they immediately apply to another ACMI.
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