No internet were Pat is.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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!)

 

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.

 

College or Pro team lanyard? A little different IMHO.

Maybe you're right, they don't matter. Try wearing an "Allah Is The One True God" lanyard on your next AWAC orbit and get back to us.

Potatoe Chip,

Dead on, totally agree.

Might be tough at times to weed out the problem children when Envoy crew manning protests, but if the flow up is the plan, there needs to be discipline.

I'll also admit that many senior guys probably wouldn't have wanted their early-late twenties past lives resurfaced on webpages today. Easy to throw stones while older I guess. The guy is young, it's a different world with cameras everywhere. Sux IMHO

 

Flew with a tool wearing a US NAVY lanyard. Every pic I saw of him showed the lanyard front row and center yet he was not even remotely in the military. Some people just have to fluff up their image at whatever cost.

 

Glad i could help.

Maybe I will start wearing a United lanyard cause I fly out of Ohare

 

Dolphin... If you have a problem with his lanyard, you might be better served to criticize the company rather than the pilot. At Piedmont, and it's reasonable to think the same could be true at PSA, the American Airlines lanyard (and the official USAirways lanyard before that) is supplied to the pilots as the only permissible lanyard to year; other lanyards, including sports teams, military, college, and blank, are forbidden. This came about after USAPA's failed "I'm on board" campaign several years ago. If there's one thing that definitely doesn't qualify as toolish, it's properly wearing the approved uniform.

 

DD, if that's the case with the company handing them out to the regional partners, my apologies. I do blame the company and not gel hair boy in that case.