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Old 01-12-2017, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by CBreezy View Post
I'd like to nominate the AA or SW Capt who was in LGA the other day wearing jeans, a button down shirt with too many buttons unbuttoned, his leather bomber jacket with name tag and pilot hat.
Hey now! Give him the benefit of the doubt! Maybe the lid fell of his coffee in the van and then he blew out the back of his pants looking for his backup shirt.

This was a few years ago but I had a guy approach me for a jumpseat in EWR wearing an Under Armor compression top and his uniform pants. I told him he was welcome as long as he did something about his attire and HE looks at ME like I'm the weirdo! Mainline guy too. Can't believe he'd walk around the airport like that

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Old 01-12-2017, 04:50 PM
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Delta guy over Washington center who gets on the main radio gets all over the atc controller why he isn't taking control of the situation. Atc didn't hear anything and we didn't either.
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Old 01-12-2017, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by hilltopflyer View Post
Delta guy over Washington center who gets on the main radio gets all over the atc controller why he isn't taking control of the situation. Atc didn't hear anything and we didn't either.
Maybe he heard a bunch of regional pilots goofing around on guard and mistook it for com 1 radio chatter.
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Old 01-12-2017, 06:14 PM
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Holy cow I'm with you. When I excitedly had my wife come watch the video she just gave me a dirty look and walked away shaking her head.
Yep. Mine did the same when I showed her the vid.
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Old 01-12-2017, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by hilltopflyer View Post
Delta guy over Washington center who gets on the main radio gets all over the atc controller why he isn't taking control of the situation. Atc didn't hear anything and we didn't either.
Couldn't get a wind check?
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Old 01-13-2017, 07:58 PM
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So how about the SWA pilot making the rounds on facebook who wears a leather cap and goggles while people board?
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Old 01-15-2017, 07:49 AM
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So how about the SWA pilot making the rounds on facebook who wears a leather cap and goggles while people board?
i think it's hilarious.
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Old 01-15-2017, 07:57 AM
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So how about the SWA pilot making the rounds on facebook who wears a leather cap and goggles while people board?
Well, they kind of have a mandate for that sort of humor...
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Old 01-17-2017, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by dawgdriver View Post
Yes, photos of men standing in long lines at the Women in Aviation job fairs. Yes, Begging. While you're looking, note the lack of women in the photo; no need to spend money getting there because women will get hired because of quotas. They are allowed to bypass much of the pain getting to majors/legacies. Straight to the front of the line. Why spend money on training with the myriad of scholarships only available to women? How often have we seen women get hired with FAR less qualifications than their male counterparts. Hey, great gig if you can get it; I would take advantage of it if I were a woman too. But please, enough already with the gender warfare coming from the privileged class.


^^ That guy. That's not how Affirmative Action works!! All it means is if say 10% of a region is a certain race or gender, then one would expect to see roughly 10% of that region's workforce as being that race or gender. It doesn't mean "hire all of the women." It means "ATTEMPT to show a statistically accurate representation of your application pool in your hiring process in order to avoid discrimination, but still hire the most qualified applicant."

And isn't it common knowledge that it's not what you know, it's who you know? Of course some people (white male and minority both) are being hired over more qualified counterparts; they are friends with a chief or are better at networking themselves or are better at filling out that damn Airline App. I'm so sick of being told that I've had it so easy because I'm a chick. No, actually, I worked my a$$ off for over a decade, just like everyone else, just to get to the regional level. And just like everyone else, I'm stuck playing the stupid Job Fair game waiting and hoping for an interview call. My *** have had zero effect on my aviation career thus far, except maybe to give me back problems.

Phew. Rant over.

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Old 01-17-2017, 08:56 AM
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Go Girl !!! My wife is a SWA pilot , flew on demand freight , then 9 years in the regionals before getting the nod , she skipped the whole WIA thing because she wanted to get in on her own merits. No one whines like a male pilot , nobody , and I can say that because I r one : ) LOL !!!
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