Carr, are you a Delta pilot?

 

I'm the morning/afternoon DJ at The Cheeta. I'm not tier 1 material (yet) to get the coveted evening shift.

Are you always a grumpy guy or an alter ego sign in for someone else?

 

Great post. On my last trip we had an RJ pilot on the jumpstart to LAX. I saw him waiting for a bus and ended up giving him a ride to his crash-pad. Just common courtesy. I bet he does not think all DAL Pilots are Double Breasted DBs.

Scoop

 

I just happened to get a Skywest hiring pop-up and noted their hiring requirements. Another source of military vs. civilian douche baggery perpetuation. Evidently they view military pilots as the better candidates for flying airliners. Out of four requirement tiers, military guys are good to apply with 750 hours. Civilians need 1000, 1250 or 1500 depending on other factors. Military superiority complex is alive and well at one of our Delta Connection partners.

 

The regional rate reset happens at the end of this month so that could shake things up bit.

 

It was an extremely long day... So I may have missed the sarcasm.

Sorry. Otherwise, I could say the RJ/Mill/Civilians crap could be Internet only drivel. The line flying had been wonderful. Haven't had an issue with one other guy on the line in two years. So cheers to that.

 

RAHlifer makes a comment and uses the word punks to describe regional pilots. I decide to reply in kind to what I thought was a DAL pilot by saying that the 190s would be flown by a delta ********. Then I reread his post and realize it was an RAH lifer, as in a republic airways holding lifer. A lifer at a regional. Now I see the sarcasm and changed my post, slightlly.

 

I'm probably getting trolled here but oh well... You know those are the Restricted ATP hour minimums and not generated by Sky West right? So you can blame the FAA for their superiority complex.

 

The point is all these arguments are always in the background. The internet is where the rude disrespect and condescension comes out, not the cockpit. This group of pilots knows how to disagree and still run a professional respectful flight deck. I have never been a part of a crew that couldn't set aside differences of opinion and fly the jet safely and get the job done. Yeah, everyone has heard the story of that guy but it's folklore not the norm, or even a one off concern.

 

I would agree with your point, mostly.

But have you ever done JS work? Just as an example. Although the coworkers may be able to get along, that's NEVER stopped them from exercising douchebaggery towards a third party that's, say, on the JS . Sure, it doesn't happen that often or frequently, but IT DOES HAPPEN. And it's always interesting to get the sides of the story, when you can anyway.

Doesn't matter if it's online or offline, a junior/senior rant, a mil civ/you don't deserve the job rant, "you took our yerbs!!!!!", whatever.

Yeah, it's in "the background", but NEVER underestimate pilot's ability to behave like complete children. It really knows no bounds or limits sad to say.

The internetz has simply taken it a whole different direction.

I don't remember the AOL chat room/message board of old being nearly as bad, but then again, that was ages ago.