DL Hiring: New Process
07-08-2021, 12:12 PM
#61
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Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,838
Originally Posted by GucciBoy
Totally agree…except the Vol. 2 is terrible. Absolutely zero deep-dives into the systems. A more detailed Vol. 2 would go a long way for those of us who want more systems knowledge.
07-08-2021, 03:55 PM
#64
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Joined APC: Sep 2014
Posts: 4,909
Originally Posted by crewdawg
Comparing UPT to a CFI check is ridiculous. My CFI check ride (before I went to UPT) was harder than any checkride I've ever done, military or civilian. 8 hour oral and a flight with a gruff old dude that made the biggest hammer at Sheppard seem like a santa. Pilot training was tougher, but only because it was a year long event with ridiculously high standards, whereas a CFI ride was a single event. I'd have taken any of the 10 checkrides at Sheppard over my CFI check any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I do agree with Drum on the sign. Nothing wrong with the sign, every company with pilots should have a similar sign hanging over the entrances to their ops. It's not so much arrogance as it is attempting to push a mindset of professionalism and excellence.
I do agree with Drum on the sign. Nothing wrong with the sign, every company with pilots should have a similar sign hanging over the entrances to their ops. It's not so much arrogance as it is attempting to push a mindset of professionalism and excellence.
Nothing was harder than ASCS by correspondence! I could only WISH I were an air molecule gallivanting through a jet engine…Try writing a 10-page paper on a topic you don’t understand, using words you’ve never heard of, based on videos you didn’t actually watch, and articles you never read while being locked out of your AF port hole for non-completion of IA training that was due YESTERDAY, when this paper you just started at 2200 is due by MIDNIGHT, and Dos Gringos and Jack Daniels are pounding on your proverbial billeting room door…all while knowing you left your bar tab open, and your bros know it, and the locals you just met and tried to impress know it, and you’ve already been passed over twice for PME non-completion and your interest-only mortgage on your Vegas mini mansion is about to balloon and you really need that extra scratch, or at least this job.
No way a CFI check will make you sweat like that.
True story.
10%.
07-08-2021, 04:03 PM
#65
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Joined APC: Sep 2015
Position: UNA
Posts: 4,417
Originally Posted by TED74
Nothing was harder than ASCS by correspondence! I could only WISH I were an air molecule gallivanting through a jet engine…Try writing a 10-page paper on a topic you don’t understand, using words you’ve never heard of, based on videos you didn’t actually watch, and articles you never read while being locked out of your AF port hole for non-completion of IA training that was due YESTERDAY, when this paper you just started at 2200 is due by MIDNIGHT, and Dos Gringos and Jack Daniels are pounding on your proverbial billeting room door…all while knowing you left your bar tab open, and your bros know it, and the locals you just met and tried to impress know it, and you’ve already been passed over twice for PME non-completion and your interest-only mortgage on your Vegas mini mansion is about to balloon and you really need that extra scratch, or at least this job.
No way a CFI check will make you sweat like that.
True story.
10%.
No way a CFI check will make you sweat like that.
True story.
10%.
07-08-2021, 04:15 PM
#66
Can’t find crew pickup
Joined APC: Jun 2021
Posts: 1,985
Originally Posted by TED74
Nothing was harder than ASCS by correspondence! I could only WISH I were an air molecule gallivanting through a jet engine…Try writing a 10-page paper on a topic you don’t understand, using words you’ve never heard of, based on videos you didn’t actually watch, and articles you never read while being locked out of your AF port hole for non-completion of IA training that was due YESTERDAY, when this paper you just started at 2200 is due by MIDNIGHT, and Dos Gringos and Jack Daniels are pounding on your proverbial billeting room door…all while knowing you left your bar tab open, and your bros know it, and the locals you just met and tried to impress know it, and you’ve already been passed over twice for PME non-completion and your interest-only mortgage on your Vegas mini mansion is about to balloon and you really need that extra scratch, or at least this job.
No way a CFI check will make you sweat like that.
True story.
10%.
No way a CFI check will make you sweat like that.
True story.
10%.
07-08-2021, 05:43 PM
#68
Quality of Lifer
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Position: M88A
Posts: 672
Originally Posted by DWC CAP10 USAF
As the OP for this thread about the new hiring process, I ask Drum et. al. to take your d!ck measuring contest about who had a tougher CFI checkride and create your own thread.
07-09-2021, 04:29 AM
#69
Super Moderator
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 5,553
Originally Posted by TED74
They can’t build fatiguing individual rotations and fatiguing PBS lines of flying, overuse reserve pilots, fly vacation months like there was no vacation in them, pressure against sick calls and perpetually staff through green slips or otherwise be slaves to “network” (leaving no revenue dollar unturned)…without paying the Piper somewhere along the way. 2021 will be a lucky operational year of we get through it unscathed.
The bolded line is partly our fault wrt what's in the contract. Making vacation pay AND credit would help mitigate that. Agree 100% with the rest of your post.
Last edited by crewdawg; 07-09-2021 at 05:05 AM.
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