Don't forget the guy who was smoking his vape pipe in the cockpit during his 88 IOE..He did not get fired for that.

 

Was that a 9E pilot?

 

I have it on not so good authority that it was medicinal.

 

I’m with an LCA right now. Takeoff roll is confirmed. Confirmed with a smile.

 

Capts still have to evaluate these guys correct? If they suck, write the appropriate review. If they're great, write that they are great and press on.

 

Serious question…
How much weight do those evals hold? We have those at 9E but I do not think they can trigger much besides a conversation during the quarterly CP meetings while on probation..

 

Weren’t you saying how a flow doesn’t hurt the quality of the pilot group because the bad apples can just get weeded out during their probationary year?

And yet you know nothing about whether that’s true or not

 

I would assume egregious repetitive issues would weed out problem children. For example, sitting short call reserve at home has been an on going problem at 9E. Those individuals no longer work here. A buddy at JetBlue said that same thing has happened there.

What I’m talking about is a pilot showing up looking like ****, insubordination, showing up late to the flight Etc.

 

What’s wrong with being home on short call reserve, as long as you check in on time or are promptly available?

 

Ah, gotcha.

Sounds like it might be a good idea if there were some sort of process where we could get to know people before they got brought on board, to hopefully prevent people with those attitudes or traits from getting here in the first place.

Maybe we could have some of our pilots speak to the candidates beforehand. Oh yeah, maybe even have HR there as well, because they look for/ask about different sorts of things than pilots do. Maybe just get everyone together in a room and talk to the candidate, to see if they’re a good fit for the company culture.

That way we might be able to sort of “filter” or “screen” the type of people who might engage in egregious behavior like showing up looking like garbage, or being insubordinate. Because as we all know, it’s very expensive for a company to bring someone on board only to have to fire them later. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, etc.

I dunno, just a thought.