Skywest Transition/upgrade
 

Can bro captains transition directly into the jet as captain?
I have been hearing 4-5 years for captain on the bro and 5-6 years for captain on the jet, so if a bro captain upgraded after 5 years, and was captain for 3 years after, could he then bid for a captain position on the jet, and would a 3 year bro caption upgrading to the jet, start at 3rd year jet captain pay?

It is not "bro". There is not an "o" in "Brasilia". Please call it what it supposed to be called....weedwacker, turbo taco, mexican king air, whatever, anything but "bro". Whoever came up with that name should be shot.

Yes you can transition to the RJ and you remain at the pay scale of whatever years of service you have.

A bro captain can bid any seat he wants. Holding it will be dependent on company need and the pilots flexibility regarding the domicile award. You retain your longevity regarding pay no matter what seat you go to. Your example: You get 8-9 jet captain pay.

Many guys do that.

It's not like mesa and some other other airlines, after your seatlock is up (1 year) you can bid any position your seniority can hold, including going backwards if you wanted to.

Brozilla
 

Oh, but it IS the "Bro"... Because that's what we all call it. :cool: It's all a matter of perspective.

Weedwacker? Turbo Taco? Mex King Air? No.............

It's Taco Turbin, Jungle Junk, Burrito Bomber or my personal favorite……. Switch-B1tch.

Where does it say "Guppy" in 737 or Mad Dog in McDonald Douglas? Or Etc. I have 3000+ hours in the E120 and we call it the Bro, but you must fly the Barbie Jet. No Offense, I fly the Barbie Jet too.

Everybody who has has flown it calls it the bro.

C'mon bro, dont call it bro.

Bro 1: Bro, whatchu doin' tonight bro?
Bro 2: Bro, nothing, bro, nothing going on bro.
Bro 1: Bro, you wanna get together and just chill?
Bro 2: Yeah bro, maybe we can just bro out!!
Bro 1: Yeah bro lets go to my room and talk about it. I can't wait to bro out with you, bro!!!

"Portuguese Death Trawler" was my favorite when I worked with Embooger 120 pilots. "Broke-zilla" and the aforementioned "Burrito Bomber" were acceptable substitutes. "Bro" was a quick way to identify yourself as someone who failed out of the SKW interview process.

These are all good....and no I dont fly the barbie jet anymore, thankfully! When I flew the Brasildildo (almost forgot that one) almost 15 years ago, nobody called it the bro.

what exactly is so "Mexican" about an airplane made in Brazil? They don't even speak the español...

Not sure where exactly the name came from but it stuck we all call it the Bro. Probably because Bra doesn’t work and it’s an physical airplane to fly so whoever started Bro wanted a masculine sound. Either way it stuck and seems to fit, at least at SkyWest.

Au contraire mon ami!

(I think I might have some special insight on this one...):D

~Taco

The name came from the west coast crews that fly it. Particularly SAN/SBA crews where Bro is common lingo amongst the guys that grew up here surfing, skating, dirt biking etc....It works on the West Coast....Only guys that seem to not like it are the nozzles from the east coast. Got it Bro?

Hey bra, if it's surfer dudes, why not call it the bra, bro?

It seems to me, at my company at least, it's called a Bro because it's a manly man's plane. You gotta fly the jo's, Beeches, and/or Tubes before you get in the left seat of the Bro.

I flew it for 3 years at SKYW and I never called it the Bro.

I called it the Brakillya.

Guess that didn't stick.

I prefer Broski, but it isn't catching on.

I think the name was stolen from a Seinfeld episode.

Upgrade anywhere right now...
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Hopefully it will soon change but if our economy takes a crapola it will stay that way.

If?
...

Allow me to restate:

When the economy totally melts down and the dollar is worthless (a la Wehrmacht 1945) the only thing we will be flying is paper airplanes.

if the us economy is going to melt, could you give me a prediction of where china's economy will be at when that happens?

They're coming down with us... won't be hit as hard as we will, but since every other economy that china relies upon is also tied to ours, they won't make out to well. We haven't seen the worst of this yet (especially if we raise the debt ceiling without restriction), so anything could happen.

Aww come on..... The pilot union and current administration will totally prevent anything that will hurt our economy and future prosperity. With a little luck, we can raise the pilot retirement age to 75 so we can have long and fruitful careers.