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11-19-2006, 05:15 AM

#61

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AV8ER

A flight attendant asked one of my fellow new hires during the first week of class...

"So, you guys were already pilots before coming here?"

I think I've posted this on another thread, but it fits here. I was riding in the van to the hotel from the training center as a new hire. We had flight attendants in the van too. We got to talking. They asked us how long pilot training was. We said six weeks. They said flight attendant training was four weeks. She thought for a minute and replied, "You mean for two weeks more we could have been pilots?" We pilots had a good laugh.

11-19-2006, 08:29 AM

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JoeyMeatballs

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haahaah thats funny. The thing that bothers me is that I was a CFI and then I went to Colgan now I am at Expressjet and some of my good buddies are like, So your are finally going to fly commercial? I am like dude where have you been for the past 2 years have yo unot been paying attention to anything I have been saying? Or they are like so dude 747's now? I am so heart broken to tell them its only a 50 pax jet. But hey it was worse when they found out I flew Turbo-props

11-19-2006, 10:28 AM

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bintynogin

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you mean one of those "Little Mesaba's?" That's what i usually get when I try to explain what a Q400 is. Lol

11-19-2006, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by bintynogin

you mean one of those "Little Mesaba's?" That's what i usually get when I try to explain what a Q400 is. Lol

I don't understand why people say that... what does that mean?

11-19-2006, 10:41 AM

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bintynogin

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I guess they think all turbo-props are called Mesaba's. The person that said that to me has only flown on one of Mesaba's Sabb.

11-19-2006, 12:09 PM

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UPSAv8tr

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Every so often I still get asked if I'm ever gonna make the move to fly "commercially".

11-19-2006, 03:18 PM

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GauleyPilot

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Quote:

Originally Posted by UPSAv8tr

Every so often I still get asked if I'm ever gonna make the move to fly "commercially".

WOW!!!!!! I guess most people only consider passenger airline flying to be "commercial".

I know and respect the fact that the general public does not have the knowledge about aviation. They are simply not exposed to it.
When people ask me "Are you ever going to be a Commercial Pilot", I want to say:

"Nah, I don't want to surrender my ATP"

(kidding, I politely explain it to them as best as I can)

11-19-2006, 03:31 PM

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I flew a C421 for a few months for a construction company... most of my friends always said..

"Oh, so you're like a private pilot."

I usually just shook my head and replied... "close enough."