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01-22-2023, 11:31 AM
#31
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Joined APC: Feb 2016
Position: 737
Posts: 288
Originally Posted by Nantonaku
I don’t doubt any of this but there is a level of maturity and experience that is impossible to have at 24. That doesn’t mean a 24 year old can’t do the job. But you can’t rush some things.
01-22-2023, 11:51 AM
#32
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Joined APC: Aug 2011
Position: Hoping for any position
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Originally Posted by crazyjaydawg
The van ride is the biggest threat in my WARTS brief with very little mitigation. Wear your seatbelt and pray.
It’s only a matter of time before crew members get killed in a van ride. Accommodations really needs to look hard at transportation providers.
I fill the FCRs but nothing seems to change.
It’s only a matter of time before crew members get killed in a van ride. Accommodations really needs to look hard at transportation providers.
I fill the FCRs but nothing seems to change.
01-22-2023, 01:42 PM
#35
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Posts: 104
Originally Posted by Mediocre Pilot
Not my experience as a B. At ~69%, I was holding EDI, LIS, and picking up the occasional MAD & BCN. Lots of folks can't handle/bid off the 2 pilot runs to the UK. I didn't think they were that bad. Is it that different for As?
The ACC is a hidden gem. 12 hours to the world's easiest arrival, dinner, drinks, pool, malaria, and back in time for the first flight home!
The ACC is a hidden gem. 12 hours to the world's easiest arrival, dinner, drinks, pool, malaria, and back in time for the first flight home!
01-22-2023, 01:44 PM
#36
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Position: UNA
Posts: 4,417
Originally Posted by Mediocre Pilot
Not my experience as a B. At ~69%, I was holding EDI, LIS, and picking up the occasional MAD & BCN. Lots of folks can't handle/bid off the 2 pilot runs to the UK. I didn't think they were that bad. Is it that different for As?
The ACC is a hidden gem. 12 hours to the world's easiest arrival, dinner, drinks, pool, malaria, and back in time for the first flight home!
The ACC is a hidden gem. 12 hours to the world's easiest arrival, dinner, drinks, pool, malaria, and back in time for the first flight home!
01-22-2023, 01:48 PM
#37
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Position: Wind checker
Posts: 763
Originally Posted by Nantonaku
I don’t doubt any of this but there is a level of maturity and experience that is impossible to have at 24. That doesn’t mean a 24 year old can’t do the job. But you can’t rush some things.
01-22-2023, 01:49 PM
#38
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Posts: 104
NB A is definitely harder than WB A. The NATS are about easy as they come. WATRS is way more difficult. The guy doing 4 legs a day, deicing, holding, diverting, dodging storms in the summer, etc. is a whole lot harder than getting a selcal check at 30W. Not sure why people think the NATS is this complex impossible feat that only more experienced pilots will understand.
Last edited by Fastpilot; 01-22-2023 at 01:59 PM.
01-22-2023, 01:54 PM
#39
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Posts: 19
Originally Posted by Nantonaku
I don’t doubt any of this but there is a level of maturity and experience that is impossible to have at 24. That doesn’t mean a 24 year old can’t do the job. But you can’t rush some things.
I’m sure the 24 year-old RJ skipper who was doing 3-5 legs a day in and out of blizzards and thunderstorms in ORD, CLT, DEN and LGA can handle it.
01-22-2023, 02:11 PM
#40
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Position: stake holder ir.delta.com
Posts: 10,027
Originally Posted by Fastpilot
NB A is definitely harder than WB A. The NATS are about easy as they come. WATRS is way more difficult. The guy doing 4 legs a day, deicing, holding, diverting, dodging storms in the summer, etc. is a whole lot harder than getting a selcal check at 30W. Not sure why people think the NATS is this complex impossible feat that only more experienced pilots will understand.
That’s got nothing to do with age though.
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