Well ill tell you this the pilot group rocks.

 

The morale will improve until the beatings continue.....wait, that's not right.

 

Well I know I'm awesome so thanks for the compliment comrade!

Beatings? Like with whips and clamps and stuff? Is leather involved?

Knew I came to the right place!!!

 

Just when someone things it's safe to come back to APC.....

For those of you that have been to FMS training, how do you feel about the new ones? Personally, I don't mind flying VOR to VOR, but the new ones will be nice.

 

VOR to VOR sucks when the airplane is oscillating all over the place with the AP on NAV. Then center saying you're off course, when your needles say otherwise.

Not to mention would be nice to go direct somewhere without it being a VOR that you can't receive yet due to distance. The RNAV approaches will be a welcoming when we get trained into them in the Saab.

 

happy were getting fms back, up north I don't feel like we NEEDED it enroute but it will help. we NEED gps approaches for these airports though. many times were dancing with tailwind/xwind/braking action limits because there's only one approach we can do. hopefully they'll get that part up and running quickly. wish they had just sent the powerpoint and test out to us online. for me to do the class it turned into 2 lost days of work, 8 hours of credit, 30 hours of perdiem, a 275 dollar hotel room because they waited until the last minute to book and 40 bucks in cab fees because that hotel had no transport. I know that wasn't the case for everyone but still it must have cost a ton. maybe they were required to have us actually in class for it.

Like people have said, the crews and ground peeps rock. Also I think the top brass make good decisions and communicate a lot for an airline (all the videos and emails) even the chief has improved his email tone. the delay reports are a blessing and a curse, you have to do them all the time but at least there is some outlet where you can say what happened and hope things will change because of it. or at least not come back on you.

....deleted the rest, not worth ranting about crew sked and dispatch....

 

What kind of FMS are y'all getting?

 

It's still a universal, just I guess a more "recent" model of the old ones already disabled.

 

Enjoy the crews, agents, mechanics, and the passengers that are that special breed who are willing to have you fly them into Bradford, Dubois, or Ogdensburg with the ice coming off of the props and hitting on 1 a/b in a snow storm. As you move up in your career the things you wrote about will move in opposite directions. The most fun I have had, was flying the Mighty Beech out of Dubois. Is Mary still in Dubois? I always had the hots for her (10 years ago)

 

Apparently there's a beech new hire class next month? Wonder where these are going.