Again, the content of his letter is negligible. I asked your credentials, you didnt respond. You reduced an air force major C-130 captain to a C-172 weekend warrior who doesnt understand aviation. Thats only what I was touching on. Check your facts before throwing mud. End of point. Over

 

Agreed. This is not about what experience the congressman has but on the lack of substance of his questions. You want the man to be credible based on his C-130 and military experience but his questions and letter to Colgan reeks of grandstanding and unintelligent media sensationalism propaganda.

If the congressman had done his homework he would realize that many regionals have pilots in their ranks hired with wet commercial licences. This was not just a Colgan thing but a fact for many regional airlines needing butts to fill seats.

Also he would have seen that the pilots had enough rest as mandated by the FEDERAL Aviation Administration. Perhaps he should look to his backyard in DC about why pilots can be worked 16 hours a day.

Lack of training? Well, again he should have done his homework being the super pilot that he is. The FEDERAL Aviation Administration is the one who approves the training sylabus for the airline. Again, the congressman should look in his own backyard.

I can give a rats butt about if this guy was in the military and flew fats or a 172 on the weekend. This is grandstanding and nothing more. If he had any clue he would realize that this is not a Colgan problem but a issue that affects all regional pilots.

 

Again, you are refuting a point I never made. I have no strong opinion on the letter whatsoever, I pretty much agree with your synopsis of it. All I was saying is that 'AirWillie' should attempt research before slamming the mans flying credentials, because he did no research, he just made a broad sweeping assumption about somebody else, much like he is criticizing the media for the same thing, aka broad sweeping assumptions.

Hence, my original and only point whatsoever:
Before calling somebody a C-172 weekend warrior, first make sure they are not a USAF C-130 major. out

 

What's wrong with being a C-172 weekend warrior? Is flying a C-172 on the weekend a bad thing?

 

No but a weekend warrior does not know what they are talking about. Just as when I was a weekend warrior I knew nothing about regional life, fatigue, and pay issues.

This congressmen served our country with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and I thank him for his service. But just as I know nothing about flying missions over hostile lands, I assume he knows about the same about life as a regional pilot.

 

If you have a mind like me you're laughing right now as you read that.

 

When i went through training at ExpressJet the pusher was demonstrated to us. We got to see how it worked, & also did have to demonstrate the ability to recover from a full stall(multiple configurations) in the EMB 145 sim.

At NWA we had to do full stall recovery in the DC9 sim, but no pusher since it doesn't have one.

 

Airwillie is a gojets pilot by his own admission (you get the picture, but enough said about that). What a lot of folks don't realize is that despite the line of questioning here, the bigger picture is that p.o.s operations like colgan (the company not the pilots) are finally getting their day, which in turn will bring other issues to light, some of which are industry wide as demonstrated recently in the hearings.

So let's happy that congress is coming after Colgan, cause in doing so their finally doing something good by addressing some of the more important issues.

Fly Safe,

Bond

 

and it took him long enough to admit it after the trash talking he gave them!

 

A true disgrace to the REAL AirWillie pilots! Especially if you are privilieged enough to know about UAL's RFP for AWAC flying and who ended up with some of that flying...

Thread Hijack overwith, please return to your normal rants.