viper548

Is he Piedmont or PSA?

Packrat

Apparently neither of them frequent APC.

f10a

A quick glance at one of the numerous "pilot" hashtags on Instagram is quite alarming.. The sheer number of millenial ultra dooshes with a selfie stick in the cockpit is off the charts. And I'm seeing a trend with these tools in replacing their narcissistic selfie stick with a drone to following their movements, edit their fancy look at me video, dub in some trendy edm tune, and upload it to the plethora of social media sites to collect "likes".

80ktsClamp

It says in one of the earlier posts he's a newly qualified LCA at his airline. Yowza!

Flubber

Blue Streak. (PSA wasn't enough characters... urg.)

Justdoinmyjob

No internet were Pat is.

captjns

There was true tool, one of many, at Miami Air... Former Director of Training. He uploaded his picture on a singles website while wearing a Captain's uniform. He was quoted "When I take off my uniform after a busy day of flying, I like to take my boat for a sail." which was in the picture behind him.

Now the funny thing of it all was this DB never flew the line, nor did he hold an ATP, nor flew anything larger than a Piper.

Also the biggest boat he owned was a Sea Doo. He truly earned the name Captain Sea Doo.

Dolphinflyer

Thanks for highlighting my problem with this little Douche.

He doesn't work for AA and isn't a AA pilot (not yet), yet wears verbiage that the general public might think he is. That eclipses all his little gel haired, selfie act and qualifies for TOTD, maybe even a runner up in the yearly semi-finals.

In over three decades of flying, I've run across nearly a dozen instances of commuter owned or affiliated claiming they are AA pilots in bars, in airports, on webpages and even to FA's onboard while traveling to an Eagle interview, yet I have never seen the same in reverse. (One even stood in my face repeating "I am AAL" while demanding first jumpseat priority of 5 guys on the jetbridge consisting of 3 AA, this Eagle guy and a Northwest pilot)

90% (or whatever #) should flow up without question. Great pilots and true professionals. The rest should get a serious evaluation and rejected if needed. I'm total civvy and I speak of the same clowns I couldn't stand as CFI's and in Part 135.

awax

Because he's wearing an AA lanyard? You know AA hands those out at every job fair they attend and even gave a bunch of them to my kid's school for career day. The next thing you're going to tell us is that everyone wearing an NFL jersey doesn't actually play on an NFL team!? weak.

Of all the reasons this guy is TOTD, the lanyard isn't one of them (but it IS funny it's AA!)

PotatoChip

Which is why we need one level of safety, one level of training and one level of hiring....

But they can't get that when scope has been sold. Until regionals disappear or regionals pay what a 76 seat jet captain and first officer should make, they are going to continue to be desperate for pilots, and this is the result.