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Old 04-03-2021, 11:02 AM
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I have flown with him a few times. He is an excellent and very professional pilot. He is wound up very tight, and has some quirks......but I would fly with him any time and I would put my family on any plane he was operating.
It was several years ago, but from what I remembered, he was fine as a pilot. He flew a good plane, very standardized, etc, and I guess wound tight may be a better description than saying that he’s a nut. He was very odd though and I could see how that would hurt someone in an interview. I’ve flown with some really strange ones at UAL and other companies too. My favorite one was the captain that thought that I should arm myself first thing in the morning when I wake up. He actually had a pistol on him to cook breakfast just in the event that a race riot broke out or society collapsed while he was scrambling some eggs. I have a house full of guns, but this guy was out there.
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I have flown with him a few times. He is an excellent and very professional pilot. He is wound up very tight, and has some quirks......but I would fly with him any time and I would put my family on any plane he was operating.
That's enough to keep your job.

But it's not enough for most majors, they want people who will represent and lead and the fringier you are, the harder that gets. They also want people who won't create HR or CRM problems. PIC authority + OCD is a flag for that.
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What happened to the Surgeon? I thought he was a Hogan pass or CPP accepted guy before all that went down. Truth is stranger than fiction on that one.
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What happened to the Surgeon? I thought he was a Hogan pass or CPP accepted guy before all that went down. Truth is stranger than fiction on that one.
he passed the hogan and failed the interview
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Old 04-04-2021, 11:53 AM
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he passed the hogan and failed the interview
If he’s still practicing, his patients are likely to get preferential hiring these days......
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
That's enough to keep your job.

But it's not enough for most majors, they want people who will represent and lead and the fringier you are, the harder that gets. They also want people who won't create HR or CRM problems. PIC authority + OCD is a flag for that.
I know of a few odd ones who have been picked up by the legacies. The kind that make you scratch your head when you see great guys get passed up...
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I always thought that 3 cups was just an inside joke since I never worked at XJT until I ended up on his jumpseat. That guy is a nut. If I remember correctly, UAL already shot him down at least once.

The rest of the XJT pilots that I met while jumpseating were all fantastic and I hope they get a job offer.
I flew a few trips with good old 3-cups. Once you figured out his quirks, he was a good guy to fly with. Great pilot, and always made sure his crew was taken care of. Most of the people who spread rumors about him never spent a minute with the guy on the plane. Jim the Jungle Surgeon, on the other hand, is a completely different story...
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Old 04-05-2021, 08:38 AM
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If he’s still practicing, his patients are likely to get preferential hiring these days......

I see what you did there
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If he’s still practicing, his patients are likely to get preferential hiring these days......
You win APC for the day because of this remark!
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Is he a actual surgeon or is some kind of joke...
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