I'm done
03-14-2013, 04:52 PM
#41
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Position: Pilot
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03-14-2013, 09:38 PM
#42
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Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Sleeping in the black swan’s nest.
Posts: 5,726
Hey it's not a perfect career for everyone. I'm just sick and tired of SH's never ending drama queen contest. And he's also full of chit if you actually slow down and read what he's saying.
03-14-2013, 09:39 PM
#43
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Joined APC: Nov 2011
Position: Volleyball Player
Posts: 4,026
03-15-2013, 08:00 AM
#45
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: B757/767
Posts: 13,088
I started civilian flight training in 1998. Ten years later I started class at Northwest Airlines. It can still be a perfect career for many.
03-15-2013, 11:21 PM
#46
Disinterested Third Party
Joined APC: Jun 2012
Posts: 6,298
Got lucky? Hardly.
Those of us who have succeeded in the industry have done so because we chose to work and to succeed.
It is not a matter of luck.
It never was.
I came from nothing, and worked damn hard to be where I am. No one with any knowledge of the industry, or who has put in the effort to succeed would be uninformed so much as to suggest that success in this business is "luck"
Those of us who have succeeded in the industry have done so because we chose to work and to succeed.
It is not a matter of luck.
It never was.
I came from nothing, and worked damn hard to be where I am. No one with any knowledge of the industry, or who has put in the effort to succeed would be uninformed so much as to suggest that success in this business is "luck"
03-16-2013, 04:38 AM
#47
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Joined APC: Sep 2009
Position: Left seat of a Jet
Posts: 514
If you like you can get your initial CFI as an MEI. Just getting it shows you have gained additional knowledge, reinforced your commitment to aviation, will more properly instruct a new F/O down the line, could instruct ground training for the company, Etc. It is worth plenty even if you do not use it for flight instruction, same regarding an A&P. Also get your AGI if you don't have it, before the FOI expires. If I had two equally qualified candidates I would always pick the one with the CFI, whether they had used it or not. You will also garner more respect from an employer and among your fellow airman for having it. And do not let it lapse, otherwise you will have to endure the day from hell twice.
You would pick the CFI, I was picked many times because I have an A&P. One of my friends was picked by Hawaiian Airlines because he had the A&P. Depends on who is doing the interviewing. Big purple really loves military people, just depends!
03-16-2013, 08:56 AM
#48
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Joined APC: Jan 2013
Posts: 834
To clarify, I would not necessarily pick the CFI, or just the CFI. I only mentioned that as an example. In fact I had my A&P prior to my CFI. I would very strongly recommend an A&P as well for many reasons. Having an A&P is very valuable, especially in the corporate arena. Many newcomers don't consider this and instead have fixated only on things they deem directly related to actual flying of the aircraft, to their detriment... Additionally, it goes against much human nature to start at the bottom and why build a solid foundation when someone will let you enter at other floors on the elevator? Because there is a reason for it!
03-16-2013, 09:46 PM
#49
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Joined APC: Aug 2010
Position: Toilet warmer.
Posts: 337
Got lucky? Hardly.
Those of us who have succeeded in the industry have done so because we chose to work and to succeed.
It is not a matter of luck.
It never was.
I came from nothing, and worked damn hard to be where I am. No one with any knowledge of the industry, or who has put in the effort to succeed would be uninformed so much as to suggest that success in this business is "luck"
Those of us who have succeeded in the industry have done so because we chose to work and to succeed.
It is not a matter of luck.
It never was.
I came from nothing, and worked damn hard to be where I am. No one with any knowledge of the industry, or who has put in the effort to succeed would be uninformed so much as to suggest that success in this business is "luck"
You're not one of the unlucky ones whose career and retirement were wiped out when Eastern went under. They worked damn hard too and lost, a lot.
Your also not one of the plethora of unlucky ones whose first furlough from US Air lasted nearly a decade before they were recalled, only to be furloughed, again! Did they work any less hard than you have?
What about the thousands of PATCO controllers who were fired in 1981 and lost everything they had worked for? Were they any less deserving?
To say that no amount of luck has any bearing on ones aviation career makes you appear sanctimonious and quite frankly, moronic on a forum like this.
HD
Last edited by Hawker Driver; 03-16-2013 at 10:27 PM.
03-16-2013, 10:38 PM
#50
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Joined APC: Jan 2013
Posts: 834
Last I heard Lorenzo was hiding outside the country, probably with armed guards. What a nice man... And yes, the PATCO strike; it sure was nice flying in the few years after that, especially the first few months... on the other note; I spent too much of my life thinking the one set of footprints in the sand were mine...
