Go for the Quick Upgrade
03-03-2015, 07:39 AM
#61
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Joined APC: Apr 2014
Position: RJ right-seat warmer
Posts: 632
Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom
Oh wonderful, 2 months online, and an expert on leadership. Newsflash, commanding a cubicle, and reading Wikipedia does not make you qualified for much more than a keyboard. 'nuther newsflash, command, on the best of days, is a benevolent dictatorship. I expect this to set lots of hair on fire! If you think the flightdeck is a democracy, good luck. Your job, by SOP definition is to assist the captain. Read it, know it, live it....."Mr RJ right-seat warmer"
You know nothing about me or my background, sir. As is evident from your post.
Also, if you're wondering why you're still flying for a regional and not mainline, I suggest you take a look in the mirror. Any interviewer in their right mind, after being exposed to your attitude, would run the other way.
03-03-2015, 08:13 AM
#62
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Joined APC: Feb 2013
Position: Prime Leader of Boko Harumph
Posts: 1,167
Originally Posted by kfahmi
You know nothing about me or my background, sir. As is evident from your post.
Also, if you're wondering why you're still flying for a regional and not mainline, I suggest you take a look in the mirror. Any interviewer in their right mind, after being exposed to your attitude, would run the other way.
Also, if you're wondering why you're still flying for a regional and not mainline, I suggest you take a look in the mirror. Any interviewer in their right mind, after being exposed to your attitude, would run the other way.
03-03-2015, 08:15 AM
#63
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Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 10,085
Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom
I notice you choose to not clarify. Instead you choose to deflect and distract. For your information, every job I have interviewed for I was hired. So there's your sign.
03-03-2015, 08:33 AM
#64
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Joined APC: Apr 2014
Position: RJ right-seat warmer
Posts: 632
Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom
I notice you choose to not clarify. Instead you choose to deflect and distract. For your information, every job I have interviewed for I was hired. So there's your sign.
As for you, I'm done wasting my time and feeding the troll. I hope the majors call you soon, only because that means I won't have to suffer through a single trip with you.
03-03-2015, 09:09 AM
#65
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Posts: 924
So it would be nice to keep this thread on topic instead of catering to the ego of Internet tough guy over there in the corner....
I'd like to learn as much as possible before getting to the airline pilot stage so would appreciate your thoughts on....
What things can you guys recall about great CAs that made them great? Not so great?
On the other side of the coin, how about FOs?
I'd like to learn as much as possible before getting to the airline pilot stage so would appreciate your thoughts on....
What things can you guys recall about great CAs that made them great? Not so great?
On the other side of the coin, how about FOs?
03-03-2015, 09:32 AM
#66
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Joined APC: Nov 2011
Position: CA
Posts: 73
Originally Posted by kfahmi
I've co-founded two successful companies, have hired approximately 100 people over the years and have grown one of those companies' annual revenues from zero to nearly $2M in 18 months. So don't tell me that I know nothing about leadership.
As for you, I'm done wasting my time and feeding the troll. I hope the majors call you soon, only because that means I won't have to suffer through a single trip with you.
As for you, I'm done wasting my time and feeding the troll. I hope the majors call you soon, only because that means I won't have to suffer through a single trip with you.
Truth is everyone is ready at different times. I know FO's who have been in the industry for 6 years and still fail upgrade. I also know FO's who have been in the 121 industry less than a year and got through upgrade just fine. Common sense and decision making can't be taught like systems and how to fly an airplane. Hence the purpose of 2 pilots. CRM is key. No decision has to be made alone. Yourself, the other pilot, dispatch, flight attendants, chief pilots, other planes in your area, ATC etc. are all there to help in making a decision. It's just as the captain you have the final say as to what you will do in each particular situation. As an FO don't just sit back and wait for situations to be handled when one presents itself. Get involved, make suggestions and explain your reasoning behind it. If the CA didn't plan on consulting you before then they will at that point. Then you can discuss differences in opinion if any exist. Once you are making these suggestions and the captain more or less agrees with most of what you have to say (you won't always agree... That's just life) then you may be ready. But only you yourself can answer that.
03-03-2015, 10:51 AM
#69
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Posts: 165
Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom
CRJ700 SFO-AUS, filed FL390 climbing through FL290, left engine VIB in yellow, after I pulled it back to the green and about 68%, I asked the F/O who had been lamenting his lack of upgrade, "So Mr Captain what now do we do now". Crickets, after the QRH, comes the hard part, what to do with a plane that for all intents and purposes will not go any higher. After an uncomfortable silence I called company on Atlanta radio and talked to MX and dispatch and determined that our VFR WX fuel load was insufficient for the remainder of the the flight and returned to SFO since a fuel stop was out of the question. We solved the VIB problem, the next problem was theirs, I forget which day of upgrade class that was, because there wasn't one. We had a crew fly from MEM-DEN with the fan VIBs pegged, GE said take them off and send them to the factory. So there is a little experience required.
You really sound like a self righteous Dick! the FO didnt say anything probably cause he would rather not listen to you correct his every decision... just cause you have 4 stripes doesnt meant your the type that can teach people. Once a dick always a dick
03-03-2015, 11:10 AM
#70
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Posts: 317
Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom
I notice you choose to not clarify. Instead you choose to deflect and distract. For your information, every job I have interviewed for I was hired. So there's your sign.
I have no clue how you act in the real world, but if this thread is any indication, you still have a ton of work to do.
The captains that I've tended to respect the most have lead by example, don't sweat trivial things, and when an opportunity comes to mentor; they do it tactfully and respectfully. Not to mention, these guys always are great sticks.
It's types like yours that nitpick and control an entire flight, trivial or not, and usually get behind the airplane because they're so focused on trying to fly a single pilot cockpit.
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