Come to Flex and get stuck
04-30-2018 | 02:21 PM
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Come to Flex and get stuck
Kenn talks about "trapped pilots" is his book. He describes pilots that can't move on for one reason or another. Currently we are hemorrhaging pilots. We need to expand our pilot ranks by 160 pilots this year! Unfortunately we are currently having a net outflow. What has management done to slow the loss of pilots? They are handing out pink slips on check-rides like candy at Halloween. How can pilots with 10,000 hours with multiple type ratings and no UNSAT's on their record start accumulating UNSAT's faster than free food at the FBO? Just another show of desperation. Glad I have copies of my PRIA record prior to the decert vote.
04-30-2018 | 04:12 PM
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Kenn talks about "trapped pilots" is his book. He describes pilots that can't move on for one reason or another. Currently we are hemorrhaging pilots. We need to expand our pilot ranks by 160 pilots this year! Unfortunately we are currently having a net outflow. What has management done to slow the loss of pilots? They are handing out pink slips on check-rides like candy at Halloween. How can pilots with 10,000 hours with multiple type ratings and no UNSAT's on their record start accumulating UNSAT's faster than free food at the FBO? Just another show of desperation.
Good to get a copy every year, I actually found an error on mine when I started applying to majors (a checkride I never failed).
05-01-2018 | 01:31 PM
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05-11-2018 | 06:43 PM
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DUI's? One good pilot got a pink slip for doing the checklist too slow??? What a joke- except if you were that professional airmen. Can't remember memory items or shoot a single engine ils without going full scale on loc and gs and pass? Only if you kiss ***. This place has gone from a bad joke to a nightmare.
05-11-2018 | 07:23 PM
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DUI's? One good pilot got a pink slip for doing the checklist too slow??? What a joke- except if you were that professional airmen. Can't remember memory items or shoot a single engine ils without going full scale on loc and gs and pass? Only if you kiss ***. This place has gone from a bad joke to a nightmare.
05-12-2018 | 02:43 AM
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Of coarse there is more to the story. A Flex check airman giving an Options pilot his ride. While this pilot wasn't a big Union supporter, this was done to send the message of toe the company line or face intimidation. The company is losing the decert vote, and they are getting desperate.
