Tool of the day
12-04-2015 | 07:55 AM
#7131
Get's Every Day Off
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Retired
Tool of the day goes to the teenage kid commenting on Sully's Facebook post about attempts to reduce atp mins, claiming that military pilots should be exempt from current mins because they are inherently of higher quality and also have better training than civilian pilots.
I keed. I keed.
12-04-2015 | 08:58 AM
#7132
Banned
Joined: Jul 2015
Posts: 757
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From: systems analyst
Tool of the day goes to the teenage kid commenting on Sully's Facebook post about attempts to reduce atp mins, claiming that military pilots should be exempt from current mins because they are inherently of higher quality and also have better training than civilian pilots.
12-04-2015 | 09:13 AM
#7133
New Hire
Joined: Dec 2015
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12-04-2015 | 09:46 AM
#7135
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,128
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From: Downwind, headed straight for the rocks, shanghaied aboard the ship of fools.
No need to be defensive. I've personally flown with great pilots from both sides. And crappy ones as well. Scully has a good point. In reality though it shouldn't be just 1500 hours, it should also be part 135 scheduled all weather flying as well. The straight from flight instructing types will never know how much aviation knowledge, experience, and skills they missed out on by skipping this step because they'll never have it. It can't be earned in a two pilot 121 cockpit.
12-04-2015 | 11:29 AM
#7136
Tie Domi of Open Time
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 65
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From: Whistles go woo
TOTD: to that OO flyboy who was lurking in the lounge last night at Roasters in SEA.
I was having dinner with my crew after they cx our last leg to the outstation because freezing rain was forecast. Another pair of FA's from our base showed up because of the same thing. This tool and his sidekick drifted over after they heard us talking about "work, work, work, overnights, work..."
"Hey, are you flightcrew?... Who do you work for?..."
TOTD:"I fly for "Delta". I fly jets" My lead FA tore into him, (bless her black heart, her hubby flies too), "Oh yeah, what type? CRJ, ERJ, Embraers, what?"
TOTD: "All of them." (Smirk.) "I even let a flight attendant do a landing once." FA: "Bull****! I won't even land the plane if I'm flying in a -172."
He was making a play for one of the other girls. They were ok, they knew how to handle this douche.
It was amazing, (appalling). The frozen permanent smirk. The perma-tan. The *********g ducktail hairdoo. (I hate those.) It was straight back to 1986 and "Top Gun". It was the Iceman. He walks the earth again. I wanted to wring his neck for the damage his stereotype does to our profession. The girls just laughed at him. I just wondered how in the hell he got hired; I'm sure his apps are out all over. The pool for the regionals must be pretty well drained dry.
It was so cliché it was unbelieveable.
Ok, rant over.
I was having dinner with my crew after they cx our last leg to the outstation because freezing rain was forecast. Another pair of FA's from our base showed up because of the same thing. This tool and his sidekick drifted over after they heard us talking about "work, work, work, overnights, work..."
"Hey, are you flightcrew?... Who do you work for?..."
TOTD:"I fly for "Delta". I fly jets" My lead FA tore into him, (bless her black heart, her hubby flies too), "Oh yeah, what type? CRJ, ERJ, Embraers, what?"
TOTD: "All of them." (Smirk.) "I even let a flight attendant do a landing once." FA: "Bull****! I won't even land the plane if I'm flying in a -172."
He was making a play for one of the other girls. They were ok, they knew how to handle this douche.
It was amazing, (appalling). The frozen permanent smirk. The perma-tan. The *********g ducktail hairdoo. (I hate those.) It was straight back to 1986 and "Top Gun". It was the Iceman. He walks the earth again. I wanted to wring his neck for the damage his stereotype does to our profession. The girls just laughed at him. I just wondered how in the hell he got hired; I'm sure his apps are out all over. The pool for the regionals must be pretty well drained dry.
It was so cliché it was unbelieveable.
Ok, rant over.
I eat there when I'm in town for AQP, and I just want to go in, get my pulled pork sandwich and a Manhattan at happy hour, and relax after a day in the sim...and not have clown walking around making our profession look bad. And given who dines there as well, I'm sure the day will come where his face won't come with a positive association...
12-04-2015 | 11:51 AM
#7137
Banned
Joined: Jul 2015
Posts: 757
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From: systems analyst
No need to be defensive. I've personally flown with great pilots from both sides. And crappy ones as well. Scully has a good point. In reality though it shouldn't be just 1500 hours, it should also be part 135 scheduled all weather flying as well. The straight from flight instructing types will never know how much aviation knowledge, experience, and skills they missed out on by skipping this step because they'll never have it. It can't be earned in a two pilot 121 cockpit.
12-05-2015 | 03:07 PM
#7139
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 1,154
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Damnit LNL, I'm already having a hard enough time fitting into my new hire uniform.
12-05-2015 | 11:46 PM
#7140
Junior Senior
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 2,851
Likes: 1
From: Whiskey Papa
....aaaaand, "new hire uniform?" Congrats, and which airline?
(edit: it looks like Atlas 767). I know a few pilots and FAs over there.)
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