Regionals (the early days)
09-12-2014 | 10:57 AM
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Yeah, I've learned that the folks who instantly volunteer to tell you about their combat experiences...are usually the guys who never got anywhere near the action.
One of my best private-pilot students was a medical doctor. Very quiet, polite, soft-spoken. If you met him, you'd instantly peg him as an accountant. I knew him for about three years before I managed to find out that he had served multiple tours as an Army Ranger and had fought in the Mogadishu battle depicted in 'Black Hawk Down.' I only got this out of him after a large number of beers, and even then he refused to say anything other than that he had been there and he lost some buddies.
My wife's dad served as a Marine infantry lieutenant in I Corps, 1966-67. To this day he refuses to say anything about the experience, even to his own wife, other than his rank, dates of service, and the fact that he did see combat.
And yet, as a nation, we glamorize and celebrate pop stars, rather than the people who fight and die to keep us safe.
To keep this aviation-related...I learned that SkyWest started with a couple of Cherokees. Who knew?
One of my best private-pilot students was a medical doctor. Very quiet, polite, soft-spoken. If you met him, you'd instantly peg him as an accountant. I knew him for about three years before I managed to find out that he had served multiple tours as an Army Ranger and had fought in the Mogadishu battle depicted in 'Black Hawk Down.' I only got this out of him after a large number of beers, and even then he refused to say anything other than that he had been there and he lost some buddies.
My wife's dad served as a Marine infantry lieutenant in I Corps, 1966-67. To this day he refuses to say anything about the experience, even to his own wife, other than his rank, dates of service, and the fact that he did see combat.
And yet, as a nation, we glamorize and celebrate pop stars, rather than the people who fight and die to keep us safe.
To keep this aviation-related...I learned that SkyWest started with a couple of Cherokees. Who knew?
09-12-2014 | 11:06 AM
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And on the flip side of that, when I graduated college in 1994, no regional would even talk to you for the right seat in a Metro, Bandit, or SF340 unless you had a bare minimum of 3000 TT, 500 ME, preferably with at least 100 turbine. Competitive mins were more like 4000TT/1000ME/200 turbine.
Even getting a job at Amflight on the Piper Lance required ATP mins if I remember correctly.
How times change.
Even getting a job at Amflight on the Piper Lance required ATP mins if I remember correctly.
How times change.
09-12-2014 | 12:01 PM
#44
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09-12-2014 | 12:55 PM
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From: RJ right-seat warmer
09-12-2014 | 12:59 PM
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09-12-2014 | 01:19 PM
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That, and the first year at a Major was 6 figures.
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