nickbillfish

Combination of we fly there from a lot of bases including Miami. Plus we are adding several flights per day there from Houston on United in the coming months. Also Compass closed their MSP base so a good time to recruit I guess.

KCaviator

Welcome! Whatever you do here at Republic, do not, and I mean DO NOT, join the pilot Facebook page. Christ, it's just a bunch of grown ass dudes *****ing and moaning about petty stuff. Worse than two year olds.

knewyork

I always tell people it's the worst part of working here. I guess that's a good thing. Makes you think though, imagine people so whiny all the time about little things that your whole day is just terrible. What a way to live.

My favorite was the whole vest incident where one guy claimed the company cared more about a contract than our safety given the fact that they mailed tentative agreements to everyone 2 years ago but now we have to go pick up our safety vests. Therefore they won't spend money for our safety. That guy sleeps in his tin foil hat.

170driver

That same guy also spent 2 years of his life on the negotiations committee so I would say it is warranted.


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knewyork

Good to know, though I don't even remember his name. I certainly won't be holding it against him.

Tpinks

Thank you! I had written a response but decided not to post it as I wasn't sure exactly how long he was on the negotiations committee...

Dan is a great guy and his point is very valid. If the company is so concerned about our safety on the ramp, they would either have shipped it to us and made it effective immediately instead of the 6 week delay before we are required to wear them or they would have put them in the planes and made it a required piece of equipment and still made us wear them effective immediately.

The company will do stuff expeditedly when it suits there agenda. Look at the waste of changing the acars release, across the entire fleet, from using our employee number to the pin... what did they truly gain from that? I'm sure most FO's have their captain's pin remembered by the second flight, if the captain didn't just write it down to begin with.

As for the FB page, most of the complaints I have been reading are not even legitimate but are made of out sarcasm. It's a good source to have to ask questions and post last minute trip trades.

Flightcap

The use of PINs for signing the release is an FAA thing, not a company thing, IIRC. There's no legal assurance that the captain was the one who actually signed the release if the employee number is the verification method, since that's printed right on the paper release, available in Crew Life, etc. The PIN is *supposed* to be a private number that doesn't get shared with anyone. What did the company gain? Probably nothing other than getting the FAA off their back about some stupid detail.

As to the vests, I don't mind wearing the vest. Like you, though, I would prefer they put them in the aircraft. While talking to a union steward, I learned they tried that a few years ago during negotiations and pilots kept losing the vests.....

KCaviator

Still don't understand the fuss about the vests. It weighs a few ounces and easily fits in your flight bag...

But never mind the vests, can we or can we not squawk 0000 while at the gate with the transponder in STBY? I mean, gosh, that keeps me up at night. 🙄🙄

Kerizbro

Side question

Does anyone know when the next training class will be? Also how long is training? I know a couple of places are backed up with sims...

Tpinks

Why would you be squawking standby to begin with?