Piedmont Minimums?
05-12-2011 | 09:27 AM
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No internal recs but I do have a few letters on the dispatch side and a few from pals at a certain major carrier that has been in the news lately.
I also got 12 hours on the 757/767 and basically passed ones of said major carrier's LOFTs. I say "basically" because I didn't trim out the plane very well after takeoff before I put "otto" on and the FCCs didn't like my effort and started a slight descent while on the SID for a few seconds. Check pilot told me it would still have been a pass with a note for addition training on trim/FCC if I was on the line. Rest of the session(s) were good.
Will that have any positive influence, other then the letter I got from it?
I also got 12 hours on the 757/767 and basically passed ones of said major carrier's LOFTs. I say "basically" because I didn't trim out the plane very well after takeoff before I put "otto" on and the FCCs didn't like my effort and started a slight descent while on the SID for a few seconds. Check pilot told me it would still have been a pass with a note for addition training on trim/FCC if I was on the line. Rest of the session(s) were good.
Will that have any positive influence, other then the letter I got from it?
05-12-2011 | 09:43 AM
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No internal recs but I do have a few letters on the dispatch side and a few from pals at a certain major carrier that has been in the news lately.
I also got 12 hours on the 757/767 and basically passed ones of said major carrier's LOFTs. I say "basically" because I didn't trim out the plane very well after takeoff before I put "otto" on and the FCCs didn't like my effort and started a slight descent while on the SID for a few seconds. Check pilot told me it would still have been a pass with a note for addition training on trim/FCC if I was on the line. Rest of the session(s) were good.
Will that have any positive influence, other then the letter I got from it?
I also got 12 hours on the 757/767 and basically passed ones of said major carrier's LOFTs. I say "basically" because I didn't trim out the plane very well after takeoff before I put "otto" on and the FCCs didn't like my effort and started a slight descent while on the SID for a few seconds. Check pilot told me it would still have been a pass with a note for addition training on trim/FCC if I was on the line. Rest of the session(s) were good.
Will that have any positive influence, other then the letter I got from it?
And if you hadn't "passed" training entirely, you would not have been on IOE. So how do you have the hours. I know there are ways to have random hours on big jets, but they would not be for an air carrier with the way you describe that story. So are your hours in the actual airplane (if so, how?), or are they in a level C/D sim, in which case they are not hours toward your Total Time, they are just hours in the sim column in your logbook...
So you got the job at PDT, congrats, you've gotten your ticket to the "your life, hopes, dreams and desires mean nothing anymore" show.
05-12-2011 | 10:11 AM
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It was an FAA test and in a LVL-D sim. I was not typed in the airplane nor employed by said airline. So "basically passed" per what the check airman told me 
It is in my log book as sim and that is that. However, just wondered if it means squat to any operation who doesn't operate the type.
It is in my log book as sim and that is that. However, just wondered if it means squat to any operation who doesn't operate the type.
05-12-2011 | 11:14 AM
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It was an FAA test and in a LVL-D sim. I was not typed in the airplane nor employed by said airline. So "basically passed" per what the check airman told me
It is in my log book as sim and that is that. However, just wondered if it means squat to any operation who doesn't operate the type.
It is in my log book as sim and that is that. However, just wondered if it means squat to any operation who doesn't operate the type.
05-12-2011 | 12:00 PM
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Based on? It was part of an ordeal I had to go through a few years ago with the FAA. This was nothing official but it did help answer some of the questions they were asking about me. Personally want to leave it at that and not divulge anything more.
All I did was ask if this time really matters. Plain and simple question, with a plain and simple answer. Not a comment about "never flying for an airline." I could have worded it a different way but I didn't and for that I apologize if it sounds bad. Just a question and nothing more.......
Thanks to everyone else who provided tangible responses!
All I did was ask if this time really matters. Plain and simple question, with a plain and simple answer. Not a comment about "never flying for an airline." I could have worded it a different way but I didn't and for that I apologize if it sounds bad. Just a question and nothing more.......
Thanks to everyone else who provided tangible responses!
05-12-2011 | 12:00 PM
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No internal recs but I do have a few letters on the dispatch side and a few from pals at a certain major carrier that has been in the news lately.
I also got 12 hours on the 757/767 and basically passed ones of said major carrier's LOFTs. I say "basically" because I didn't trim out the plane very well after takeoff before I put "otto" on and the FCCs didn't like my effort and started a slight descent while on the SID for a few seconds. Check pilot told me it would still have been a pass with a note for addition training on trim/FCC if I was on the line. Rest of the session(s) were good.
Will that have any positive influence, other then the letter I got from it?
I also got 12 hours on the 757/767 and basically passed ones of said major carrier's LOFTs. I say "basically" because I didn't trim out the plane very well after takeoff before I put "otto" on and the FCCs didn't like my effort and started a slight descent while on the SID for a few seconds. Check pilot told me it would still have been a pass with a note for addition training on trim/FCC if I was on the line. Rest of the session(s) were good.
Will that have any positive influence, other then the letter I got from it?
05-12-2011 | 12:15 PM
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Was your sim training from a jet transition course you took at a college, or did you go out and buy sim time to look good in your logbook? If you can't explain the situation surrounding how you logged 757 sim time, then why would you think it is an advantage to have logged it?
Was your sim training from a jet transition course you took at a college, or did you go out and buy sim time to look good in your logbook? If you can't explain the situation surrounding how you logged 757 sim time, then why would you think it is an advantage to have logged it?
05-12-2011 | 12:17 PM
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I was given great advice once during an interview for dispatch. Long to short; I was being extremely modest and the interviewee stopped the interview and told me if you don't talk yourself up, who will? That is all that comment was meant as, nothing more.
Ncr757'
Was your sim training from a jet transition course you took at a college, or did you go out and buy sim time to look good in your logbook? If you can't explain the situation surrounding how you logged 757 sim time, then why would you think it is an advantage to have logged it?
Was your sim training from a jet transition course you took at a college, or did you go out and buy sim time to look good in your logbook? If you can't explain the situation surrounding how you logged 757 sim time, then why would you think it is an advantage to have logged it?
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