Hired 10/30/2006.
Born June 1985
Was hired at Eagle at 506 HRS
Current totals hours 3490 HRS
Completed SF-340 training Dec 06
Completed EMB-145 training Nov 07
Curently LGA based

Apparently he was a SWA FO also

 

From ALPA's "Mature Beyond His Years" page 23:

"A few years ago, during EGL’s big hiring push, Martins served as a volunteer in the EGL MEC’s new-hire mentor program. Some of the new hires he guided through their first year on the airline had as few as 500 hours total flight time..."

What a perfect mentor, the blind leading the blind!

(I wonder if his 506 hours included his 8 months at ACA and his year in UPT? I can guarantee he included his CL-65 sim time at RAA...)

 

Is there the teeniest, tiniest chance that Eagle required 500 hours when he was hired???? I'll bet he pencil whipped himself to that level also.

So, all of 2007, 2008, 2009, and 3 months of 2010. He could legally do about 3300 hours. He says he did about 3000. Does Eagle track your hours? Or is it left to Captain Martins?

 

Those numbers were on baseops i just sent em here. Not to mention in the article it says he was at ASA for 8 months. Curious if any charges are brought against him. Going phony mil is about as low as you can go!


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HAHAHAHA

 

This is something that would make Orson Welles envious.

Oh and Albie, you're a hero to us common folk!

Time for a music video:

Beavis and Butthead-Rollins Band "Liar"

 

Several years ago at another carrier I interviewed a prospective new hire that (as we found out during the interview process) had gone to jail for running drugs. At the time of his arrest he was also an airline pilot for a major. In addition to jail the time his certificates had been revoked and he had later earned each one back. I asked him how he was able to hold an ATP due to the moral character statement in the FARs. He said that there is another law that supercedes that. It says that if someone has gone to jail for a crime he cannot be restricted from working in his chosen profession. I feel confident that someone who was previously convicted of drug trafficking would have some problems becoming a pilot, however, someone that was a pilot prior to the arrest may have a way back into the ranks.

 

Had to wait a while for it, but that was GREAT! LOL!

 

I just don't understand how he could have been hired at AE with that terrible grammar. I could have done better in the fifth grade. How could HR miss grammar that poor on his app. The boy needs a dose of reality. This mellodrama will certainly buy him a one way ticket there.

Anyone aware of any media catching wind?

 

Whew, talk about raking someone over the coals !



Fred

 

American Eagle pilot suspended after lying about background

By CHRISTINE NEGRONI


A pilot for a commuter airline that flies out of all three New York airports was suspended after telling multiple lies about his background to make himself look a poster boy for his industry in a magazine profile, The Post has learned.

Timothy Martins, who flies for American Eagle, told the magazine, published by his union, that he's an active member of the New Jersey Air National Guard, an FDNY firefighter and a graduate of an aviation school on Long Island.
None of it was true, officials of the agencies said.
The safety of regional commuter carriers and their pilot training came under heavy scrutiny after a Colgan Air jet crashed near Buffalo last February, killing 50 people.
Many of the smaller carriers pay their pilots peanuts, give them insufficient rest time between flights and make them commute thousands of miles.

The story about Martins was written, in part, to counter the bad publicity resulting from the crash and other highly embarrassing incidents - including an airliner overshooting Minneapolis while its pilots chatted about their schedules.
Andrea Huguely, a spokeswoman for American Eagle, which is owned by American Airlines, refused to comment on the allegations.

But she insisted that Martins holds all the required FAA certifications for his job as a first officer. There's no indication he lied to his employer about his background.
Martins, who has been grounded, did not respond to a call and an email requesting for comment.
The controversy began after the lengthy article appeared in the April edition of the Air Line Pilots Association magazine.

Questions about his claim to be an F-16 pilot in the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard soon began circulating on the Internet.

Major Yvonne Mays, spokeswoman for the Jersey Guard, said it didn't "have any record of a pilot" named Martins.
The 24-year old, who is from Long Island, also claimed to be a firefighter and paramedic in New York. But an FDNY spokesman said, "He's not a firefighter, he has not worked for our department."
Dowling College confirmed that Martin attended the school, but said he did not graduate and his years of attendance do not correspond to the dates he said he was there.
Jim Hall, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said if Martins lied, it should be of concern to American Eagle.

"Anyone who is charged with a responsibility for transporting the lives of other people safely who is evidently intentionally fabricating or embellishing credentials or falsifying stories, that's obviously a terrible problem that should be of concern to the airline," he said.
An ALPA spokeswoman declined comment.




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