I guess that would be a yes and no answer...The Captains I flew with only yelled at you for not knowing how to do your job...It was a time when CRM wasn't about asking about how your feelings are today...And the training was much better...Sink or swim times...not this touchy feel'y anyone can do lifestyle of today...

 

5 years and still not a Captain?

 

Khal,

Check your PMs.

 

Upgrade is about...5 years, so yeah. I can be in the next class if I want.

Ironically, people still have a hard time making it through the touchy feely version...

 

It all boils down to attitude. If you have a guy with a great attitude and is willing to learn any captain should be willing to go to any length to train.

 

I hope you're not in the training department over there.

 

Thank God No!...I would never pass my Check Ride!....

Oops, sorry I used God in my post...Don't want to offend anyone...

Oops, I used anyone in my post...Don't want to offend a member of any of the extinct species of genus Homo, such as Homo erectus...

Oops, I used ?...

Oops,

 

I don't know what your post is about.

But I'll tell you this: If you think modern CRM is about talking about your feelings, you're nowhere near the mark.

 

Yes, I'm quoting both of these. Mainly because you edited one of them.

We get it, you're ****ed that you're not a 10 year ExpressJet Captain. And yes you could be in the next upgrade class...if you wanted. But, guess what? You could have been in the last two. So yea, there are now six captains junior to you that actually took the upgrade. Oh, and guess what else, they are making more money than you. Seems that someone who's in a "financial situation" would want more money. I know, I know it's not always about the money but what does more than most human beings work for on this planet? Money.

Yes, you could be a captain at ExpressJet but like I just stated you could be a captain at Omni too. Here's the deal you made a decision with the information you had about going back to ExpressJet, you didn't go. Stop complaining about it. You're a grown boy.

Most of us on here know exactly who you are. You are doing flying that most would dream of. I'll take it a step further, you go to two places where people dream to go to, pilots spend their whole careers to fly to, and you're complaining about it. You don't even have the right to complain about the rest of Omni right now. Yeah, you've been there, the rest of us are. But if you're going to continue doing the flying your'e doing, don't B!t<H.

You don't really even commute. And you have the nerve to tell these applicants to take their lack of days off to "go see the world." You've been a regional pilot, you know the drill. You really expect these pilots to jumpseat internationally? You do it domestically and know how had it is. Regional pilots have maybe 10-12 days off a month. Oh, and guess what (as you know) they're not all at once. Yes, yes, they have vacation days, sick days, and reserve days but you really expect them to go to Canada or Mexico on those three days off they have. You go see the World on those days, see how you like it.

Yes, you work eighteen days a month, maybe more. But you're home for 10-12 days straight. Off. My mother only gets eight days off a month. Ok, ok, she's off every night and home but for what? To cook my father dinner, clean, watch a little TV, and then sleep? Man, Those are some real good days at home.

We all signed up for this life, we knew there would be time away from home. Turns out planes leave one place and land at another. If you can't handle that, go be an accountant or put that ERAU degree to work. Just because you're miserable and 180K indebted with student loans (which you signed up for), stop trying to make our lives miserable too.

There are some pilots here at Omni who will never leave. It might be on their own accord or because they just didn't get the call. There are some applicants who want to do this flying because they never will get the chance from Delta, American, United, etc. There are some who want to come here to get some experience. Stop being the Debbie Downer and painting an ugly picture of a good company. It's not good? Have you been furloughed? Have you had a pay day not show up in your account? Have you been charged taxes for your commercial flight? Is the company losing money? Are we parking planes? Is the operation unsafe? Do you have to commute from East Coast to the West Coast thus loosing a day on each end? Even in your base is your commute that hard?

Step back, take a long look in the mirror, and man up.

 

excellant post--- telling it like it is---