No, I am Provisionner. I have worked Ramp and Ops too.

 

[QUOTE=CL65driver]Hi FlyerJosh... thanks for the help... here's what the FAA put into my records verbatim:

"PILOT STATED THAT AFTER LANDING ON RUNWAY 33 AT
OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO
BACK TAXI TO TAXIWAY CHARLIE. WHILE TAXIING ON CHARLIE
HE SAW A VEHICLE CROSSING THE TAXIWAY FROM RIGHT TO
LEFT. PILOT TURNED OFF TAXI LIGHTS AS TO NOT BLIND THE
DRIVER. PILOT STATED THAT HE SAW TAXIWAY "C" AND
STARTED TO TURN ONTO UNLIT AREA, WHICH APPEARED TO BE
A TAXIWAY. PILOT FELT GROUND BECOME ROUGH AND HE
REALIZED HE WAS OFF THE TAXIWAY. POWER WAS PULLED TO
IDLE AND BRAKES APPLIED. THE AIRCRAFT NOSE TILTED DOWN
ABOUT 8 INCHES CAUSING THE PROPELLER TO STRIKE THE
GROUND. TOP OF ENGINE COWL WAS PUNCTURED BY ENGINE
BAFFLES' BRACKET."

It was way back in 2001, right after I got my Commercial ticket. ATC had me land on an unfamiliar runway, with weird taxi instructions. On top of it, there was a disabled FedEx 727 on a crossing runway with vehicles attending to it... whose drivers I did not want to blind with my 172RG taxi & landing lights. I did learn a whole heck of alot from it, I'll tell ya that.

I've got an interview at Pinnacle next week, and I'm terrified about telling them of this. Oh well..... what do you think?[/QUOTE]



I'd be more terrified that Pinnacle would hire me!

 

Why? Is there are reason someone should be afraid that they're qualified for a job?

 

Here's what ya do. If ya get nervous during the interview, bring a really cold can of beer in your briefcase. When the heat of battle in the interview gets ya down, reach into that briefcase, pull out that Bud, break it open and slug it down right there in front of em. Then say, oh sorry, here ya want one too :-D

 

The best thing you can do is fess up to exactly what happends, admit what you could have done better and talk about how you have changed your habit patterns in the airplane to prevent it from ever happening again.

IT really isnt a big deal unless you were doing something monumentally stupid or reckless. People have gotten hired at airlines after doing much worse things to airplanes than you have.

Good Luck

 

Hey Browntail, why do you have to be such a di## all the time. This poor guy is excited about getting an interview and he is worried about his record. Why can't you just wish him luck and shut the f##k up? Just think back to how hard it was when you were starting out.

 

Wasn't for me. This is only my second flying job.

 

Hey guys.... thanks for all the great advice. The interview went great, got the highest score out of the 21 interviewing on the written, and breezed through everything else. The chief pilot at Pinnacle seems like a really cool guy, and the captains doing the interviews were all pretty laid back too. Seems like a great place to work.

As for Browntail's comments..... yeah, there's a reason why their uniforms are brown! Hmm.... lack of basic toiletry skills? Just kidding. It's really sad that there's a bunch of us down here at the bottom of the pecking order who are actually thrilled about flying for a living. Actually, I think all us new guys are a threat to the crusty older pilots like browntail. We actually might enjoy our line of work. Some of us never lost sight that we're getting paid to do the best job in the world. Albeit, maybe at some pretty poor pay scales, but we're flying. If you're in this to get rich, quit your job and let someone more devoted to this profession take your position... the heyday of $300k a year payrates are over. If you guys can't handle it, too bad. I'm personally thrilled to get paid $22/hr for now. Next year it will be better, and the year after even better. But ya know what, as long as my wife and I can give our family a good life... who cares?

Never liked UPS anyways.... spent 4 years in Ops for FedEx. Now that's a great airline! We're not just a trucking company with airplanes!!!

 

What are you going to do for references for your next job??

 

Don't think that way, UPS is a fine airline and fierce competitor for FedEx. They just had some quality control problems when Browntail was hired.