You will do great at GoJet, they need sharp pilots like you. To answer your question; Most Captains know its a pain to reach around the Thrust Levers and type on those useless keys that stick and double types, so they will do it for you. While flying the Pilot Monitoring will handle the FMS and on the ground its a toss up.

 

All the Delta (Comair/ASA) birds are single FMS. Delta offers meals during certain times of the day and length of the leg. United have meal boxes (crackers). GoJet considers taking a coke or water with you as theft. Some crew members (new) try to enforce that so be careful with taking a bottle of water to the Hotel (which do not provide free water) with you, you might get written up for theft and you may be looking at a life long sentence at as a GoJet Pilot.

Delta birds are pretty, but bent out of shape. Always will need lots of rudder and aileron trip to keep the flying straight. The United birds are newer, however the FO FMS always goes out (dark). This happens because it overheats and shuts down as a safety feature. It gets written up and deffered all the time, but never really fixed. All they do is reset the breaker.

All the GoJet birds' nose wheel shimmies like crazy during take off and landing. Its so bad that it feels like its going to fall off at some point. This gets written up all the time, but it must be a brain buster because it never gets fixed.

Double check your logbook after your captain. Many have flown with open write ups and missing registration. Fly that plane as if you were the captain. Don't be intimidated because you are a flight instructor who is now new to an airline. A plane is a plane, and the regs are the regs. Speak up and never assume anything. The moment you assume, just hit the timer because it will be only a matter of time before the hammer drops.

Know you GOM/SOP,,,believe it of not, some check airman think they are GOD and know it all. Your only defense is to know where to find the answer and show him/her in black and white. You don't even have to argue.

Every trip you fly it will be spent in the cockpit talking about the **** pay and other nonsense the Union isn't doing for the pilot group. Don't be that guy because guess what, you chose to be there and you can leave if you don't like it.

All the birds have paint chipping and dents everywhere. The first time you do your walk around just make sure nothing is leaking and parts are not on the tarmac LOL...sorry but its true.

Planes are pretty, they are bigger than the E145. You will be sitting higher up than your seminole. Cockpit its nice, lots of space I think. There is a cup holder but its a bit useless because the cup can't fit due to the stick shaker on/off switch being in the way. There will be a nice area for your flight kit. Don't buy a flight Kit with side bags because they wont fit. The carpets needs replacement. They keep duct taping it so people don't trip over them.

Make sure you are familiar with over wing refueling procedures. You will be doing them a lot!! No you cannot gravity fuel the center tank! Yes this was actually done! They somehow pulled the fairing out or GOD knows what and managed to do it!. Know your fuel imbalance limits because your cross flow pump will become inop and or differed!!! PLEASE do NOT taxi around the airport in circles with your GRAVITY CROSS FLOW OPEN to try and even it out that way....YES IT WAS DONE! If you have an inop CROSS FLOW PUMP remind the captain that the APU draws from the left collector tank, and to taxi out with both engines running or alternate LOL.

The most important of all if you get into an imbalance situation in the air and get to the QRH part where it says to consider a side slip: PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS! Swept back wing in thin air slipping is NUTS: and yes somebody actually suggested this during a recurrent scenario discussion!!!!

Please PEOPLE, all I ask is to use your head and remember that your captain needs your help too! There is a reason for the type requiring two pilots to fly it. Even though you are on the right seat, act is if you were the captain. This doesn't mean telling anybody what to do, this just means double and triple check everything and make suggestions. If something doesn't look safe, you can walk away. The plane will not go anywhere with just the captain at the wheel.

 

Hey guys. Public service announcement for those of us lucky enough to escape. Your last 2 checks after you resign will be paper checks mailed to your house, only after you call and ask them to do so. Not a big deal unless you are out of town for two weeks and could really use the money. Hope this helps some of you avoid giving HJs for gas money behind a 711.

 

That's what I was wondering. It looks like a hassle to reach around the thrust levers. Not sure if you were being a smart alloc with your comment though.

 

Yup, and if anyone called in sick the same year as your vacation time and left GoJet before taking your vacation, they will NOT pay you the vacation time. YES EVEN McDonalds pays you the vacation time you are earned if you leave without using it. NO GoJEt will not pay you the vacation you have earned if you leave before using it.

 

They better pay my vacation!!! They said they were going to. That means they will. Right????? Ha!!!!

 

Hey buddy! Ya, the will pay your vaca AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT CALL IN SICK DURING YOU LAST TWO WEEKS. You must also give them two FULL weeks notice at least. Make sure you go through your checks with a fine tooth comb. It took two extra pay checks to get everything right. I will say... They did pay every dollar they owed me, I just had to go back and fix multiple problems. MANY PROBLEMS, but I did finally get all my monies..... Good luck buddy, I hope you are going on to shinier and happier places!

 

How's Denver looking in terms of senority?

 

Very senior....

 

One guy told me that he gave his 2 week notice. He flew his last trip and when he went to jumpseat home he had been taken out of CASS. No jumpseat, no flight privileges. He thinks they would rather not get the 2 weeks notice so they can save the 2 weeks of vacation pay. Impressive how they watch every penny.