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Old 05-24-2023 | 03:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Meme In Command
I'm more worried about having a Field Artillery officer in an Aviation leadership position. Having ground pounders in charge of pilots never turned out good for us.

"Those guys can ONLY fly how much?"
"They get how many hours of rest?"

Hopefully he doesn't come in here like a brand new LT with new-idea-fairy energy and try to crank the optimizer from ludicrous speed to plaid
Without that Field Arty Officer, those pilots would have no idea how to run a POW camp or dig up land mines. Without that aviation experience, that Field Arty may have never learned how to read and write.


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Old 05-24-2023 | 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Meme In Command
I'm more worried about having a Field Artillery officer in an Aviation leadership position. Having ground pounders in charge of pilots never turned out good for us.

"Those guys can ONLY fly how much?"
"They get how many hours of rest?"

Hopefully he doesn't come in here like a brand new LT with new-idea-fairy energy and try to crank the optimizer from ludicrous speed to plaid
In other news, all pilots will be getting a new box of crayons with their crew meals!
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Old 05-24-2023 | 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Meme In Command
I'm more worried about having a Field Artillery officer in an Aviation leadership position. Having ground pounders in charge of pilots never turned out good for us.

"Those guys can ONLY fly how much?"
"They get how many hours of rest?"

Hopefully he doesn't come in here like a brand new LT with new-idea-fairy energy and try to crank the optimizer from ludicrous speed to plaid
We had an astronaut running Eastern Airlines (before you were born) and we saw how that worked out.

I say give the man a chance and let's see how it goes.

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Old 05-24-2023 | 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Meme In Command
I'm more worried about having a Field Artillery officer in an Aviation leadership position. Having ground pounders in charge of pilots never turned out good for us.

"Those guys can ONLY fly how much?"
"They get how many hours of rest?"

Hopefully he doesn't come in here like a brand new LT with new-idea-fairy energy and try to crank the optimizer from ludicrous speed to plaid
I wouldn't be too worried if the VP of Flight ops was a pilot or someone with more actual flight ops experience so they could push back on the COO...but we have JL, so basically a non pilot reporting to someone with zero airline experience. Doesn't sound like a great recipe to me, but I hope I'm wrong.
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Old 05-24-2023 | 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Hotel Kilo
We had an astronaut running Eastern Airlines (before you were born) and we saw how that worked out.

I say give the man a chance and let's see how it goes.

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You just had to throw that in there didn't you chief?
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Old 05-24-2023 | 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Meme In Command
You just had to throw that in there didn't you chief?
Any chance at a dig, whether it’s actually a dig or not. That’s how HK shows how smart they are, their superior intelligence really shines because they’re smart enough to attempt to put other people down. Also, they’re very proud of how old they are.
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Old 05-24-2023 | 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Hotel Kilo
We had an astronaut running Eastern Airlines (before you were born) and we saw how that worked out.

I say give the man a chance and let's see how it goes.

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…I mean he (Frank Borman) was a former military officer with 0 commercial aviation experience put in charge of running an airline after success at an unrelated endeavor. Sounds more like our new guy than you probably meant it to.


I really hope our new COO does well, but it does seem to be a trend over the past several years to hire people with less and less airline operational experience in positions that really should have some.
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Old 05-24-2023 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by ancman
He has amusement park experience. That’s relevant to the operation sometimes.
Pretty much every station after 2230 is clowns on fire. Dude will be a natural.
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Old 05-24-2023 | 12:24 PM
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Any chance at a dig, whether it’s actually a dig or not. That’s how HK shows how smart they are, their superior intelligence really shines because they’re smart enough to attempt to put other people down. Also, they’re very proud of how old they are.
I love how I always try to give him and you-know-who the benefit of the doubt by asking them to elaborate on their point, show evidence and expand on their argument. But no, it's always some not so clever one liner. They don't need to make a rational argument. "I am older than you, therefore I am smarter than you".
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Old 05-24-2023 | 12:29 PM
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When was the last time a Bastian hire in flight ops panned out?
I guess John Laughter's job just got diluted. oh, well.
I'm sure the new guy's lessons learned from bottling soda pop will translate brilliantly to the challenges of running a global airline.
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