Canada, too, Eh?

 

Eurotrashland? you don't get out much do you...

 

I take great offense to the way he publicly embarrassed our profession on a repeated basis. Using wheelie shoes while in uniform through the terminal. YHGTBFKM! Seriously?!! Yeah, I do think he needs to be stoned. Sue me......

 

Nothing you write is taken seriously about the behavior of other pilots based on your reprehensible behavior on here re: SWAPA/AirTran SLI.

Reminds me of the bitter Pinnacle guys who "lost" CA seats to Mesaba and Colgan.

 

 

Yeah, I have to agree with you here. The guy is definitely no Tim Martins, and from what I hear he was called in over the videos and is more than likely getting some time off as a result. I think that's adequate considering the circumstance.

Hopefully he'll come out of it a little wiser and mature.

 

It IS embarrassing, but when people are treated like children, sometimes they act like children. Not an excuse, just a reality. Regional pilots are treated like dirt, and then suddenly expected to behave like professionals. To their credit, 99.9% conduct themselves with professionalism even when their companies don't return the favor. Please, I'm not condoning this or making excuses for it, I'm simply saying it doesn't surprise me at all.

 

He's correct. Eurotrashland is a proper term when it comes to the vests.

One fine morning on a ETL ramp. 3 pilots, only one vest wearer, were accosted within 30 seconds of taking several small steps for man onto the aircraft footprint. The excitement of catching the colonials flagrantly violating the socialist order was thick in the air.

The objections continued even when it was professionally explained that we were only on the ramp to pay respects to a fellow Captain who passed away on a layover as his remains were coming off a open truck into the forward cargo

With no common sense forthcoming in the conversation, a good 'Neww Yawk' response was tendered that sent the little socialist 'Hand of the King' off for reinforcements.

We departed for the colonies before the bureaucracy could react or somebody talked some sense into the idiot.

 

You just did

 

You're right, and I hate that I did. Yet the axiom "you get what you pay for" persists.