That's fine, and I too have taken delays and such to get a jumpseater on when I could have more easily not done so. It's a huge leap from doing that out of your own good will; to you having an obligation to do that, and you're "tool of the day" if you don't.

 

Whew, tough crowd. It has far less to do with me not getting on than his meek response that made it 'toolish'. A simple, "hey man sorry wish we could help you out" would've sufficed.

I've done all manner of things to get folks on over the years and the two times I couldn't I apologized and told them exactly why. One of which response qualifies for ultimate tool label but we'll save that story for another day.

So if I'm the tool here for expecting this guy to at least offer some semblance of empathy or professional courtesy about a fellow pilot getting home so be it.

 

TOTD!!!

Read up on Captain’s Authority how you got that jumpseat in the first place.

 

TOTD

The CFI at ERAU who embarrassed the profession by flying an RJ displaying poor airmanship by not only stalling once but twice in a row and in general being an embarrassment to the profession.

 

Dat sentence structure doe

 

That person is actually a former WB Captain for a Legacy. Probably never flew a CRJ before hopping in to give a demonstration.

 

I got to say I'm a little skeptical she was a Wide Body captain. A google of her name brings up bios saying she was at Hawaiian. She claims to have flown the DC-10. A poster in the other thread said that she was furloughed after 9/11 which seems consistent with her various Bios online. I'll concede that don't know the extent of Hawaiian's furlough (s?) in the early 2000's, but furloughing all the way up to widebody captain would be pretty deep furloughs at any airline. Also, multiple Bios put her flight experience at "more than 5,000 hours" which is another way of saying "Less than 6,000". Just how fast were DC-10 upgrades at Hawaiian in the 1990's ?




I'd say that was more a commentary on her judgment and ego than a valid excuse for the performance.





Interesting phenomenon: A pilot query on the FAA's database shows no pilot with her name, and no female pilot with her last name. Not sure what to make of that. AFAIK, you can decline to have your address listed in publicly accessible part of the FAA records, but you can't opt out completely. FOIA and all that. There was a big thing about that a decade ago or thereabouts.

 

In a 2008 article, she was going by by the name Michelle Summers-Halleran. FAA doesn't show any pilots with the last name Summers-Halleran, however, there is a Michelle Summers living in Port Orange. Shows a Lear Type rating (Bio said she flew Lears) MES rating (Bio says she flew Twin Otters on floats) FE turbojet, which would be consistent with Hawaiian new-hire, but no DC-10 rating (or any other Wide Body aircraft)



I'm going with, no, she wasn't a Wide Body captain anywhere.

 

Common enough for flight academy staff to puff up their credentials to impress the noobs. No surprise there.

 

That's terrible. I have no experience with ERAU or flight academies but that is troubling.