GAMA / WHEELS UP - Current Pilot Experiences
12-26-2018, 10:01 AM
#23
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Joined APC: Dec 2016
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Originally Posted by Brody
I think others have answered most of your questions, so I'll keep this short -
I was hired over the past year as an FO. I, along with most of my class, resigned within a few months. They (mgmt) put on a great show during training about their safety focus, but day-to-day experience dictates otherwise. They hired most (all?) of my class over the phone - no interview. My personal opinion is they are a violation waiting to happen. Lots of corners were cut during my time there. Chief pilot has criminal rap sheet (look it up). If he (or a few others in mgmt) have anything against you - your chances for upgrade are minimal. This didn't happen to me (wasn't there long enough), but several senior instructors warned me about it. It seemed like everyone was trying to leave - or at least the ones who were young enough to go to a 121.
There are some positives - but I felt the negatives far outweighed them.
Just one person's opinion here, FWIW.
I was hired over the past year as an FO. I, along with most of my class, resigned within a few months. They (mgmt) put on a great show during training about their safety focus, but day-to-day experience dictates otherwise. They hired most (all?) of my class over the phone - no interview. My personal opinion is they are a violation waiting to happen. Lots of corners were cut during my time there. Chief pilot has criminal rap sheet (look it up). If he (or a few others in mgmt) have anything against you - your chances for upgrade are minimal. This didn't happen to me (wasn't there long enough), but several senior instructors warned me about it. It seemed like everyone was trying to leave - or at least the ones who were young enough to go to a 121.
There are some positives - but I felt the negatives far outweighed them.
Just one person's opinion here, FWIW.
12-26-2018, 01:31 PM
#24
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Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 460
GAMA expects the work to get done, but in almost 3 years I’ve never been asked to do anything illegal or unsafe. And if they did, I’d go to my super or straight up the ladder to the DO and get things resolved. More often than not our dispatchers and flight followers are way more conservative than I’m used to.
12-27-2018, 07:20 AM
#25
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Joined APC: Sep 2013
Posts: 684
Originally Posted by Brody
They (mgmt) put on a great show during training about their safety focus, but day-to-day experience dictates otherwise. Lots of corners were cut during my time there.
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People have their own different reasons for leaving here, (mostly greener pastures calling) but cutting corners when it comes safety is not one of them.
12-29-2018, 02:15 PM
#27
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Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: B-737NG preferably in first class with a glass of champagne and caviar
Posts: 5,912
Originally Posted by Das Auto
You are by far the biggest muppet ever to grace the boards of APC. Your G-IV? Ha ha. I guess flight simulator has a G-IV on there now. Do you set the autopilot on when you take off from Teteboro then go to bed and wake up in time to actually land it in London?
I noticed that you and your high testosterone real man buddy John both joined this forum this month, and have a similar post tally. Call me a doo doo head, but if I we're a betting man I'd say you're the same delta bravo!
Please refrain from posting further about a company or a profession that you obviously know nothing about.
I noticed that you and your high testosterone real man buddy John both joined this forum this month, and have a similar post tally. Call me a doo doo head, but if I we're a betting man I'd say you're the same delta bravo!
Please refrain from posting further about a company or a profession that you obviously know nothing about.
12-29-2018, 07:02 PM
#28
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Joined APC: Sep 2013
Posts: 684
Originally Posted by captjns
Brian and his friend John appear to be trolling a bit. Seems to be working based responses to their posts. They’re roiling the pot on other threads too.
12-31-2018, 03:19 PM
#30
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Joined APC: May 2017
Posts: 105
Originally Posted by Busdriver91
You mind laying some facts down, instead of personal opinion? Cutting corners and not being safety focused goes against everything I have experienced with this company.
Providing details will likely get me recognized - I'd prefer to remain anonymous. I'm sure there are plenty of pilots there who have had radically different experiences than I did. I know a violation when I see one . . . I've been in this industry long enough. I wasn't the only one in my class with this concern - which is why most of them quit once they were exposed to the day-to-day operation.
I have nothing to gain by posting this - a pilot asked for opinions, and I took the time to give mine. If you don't like it, then move to the next post. I'm just glad I didn't stay - I'm told it hasn't changed
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