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#101

at6d , 10-03-2021 01:50 AM

Strike averted!

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

You weren't wearing cowboy boots and didn't look like you could stick a landing after arriving at the marker clean, at 250kts.

Hell we did that stuff in the ATR days! You forgot smoking a cigarette with the document door open.

#102

hercretired , 10-03-2021 09:11 AM

Gets Weekends Off

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Originally Posted by Nvrgofullretard

do you know how many times you’re told you’re a POS and suck at flying in a fighter pilot debrief? It is not all shots of weed and volleyball in jeans..come on man even you have to know that. It’s just as tough as trying to earn your atp, or pass your first check ride. Nerves are nerves and people are people.

break you down and build you up method

#103

Anon1212 , 10-03-2021 09:51 AM

On Reserve

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Originally Posted by fadec

Military guys come from a background where they nonstop get told they're special, high-speed, cream of the crop, best of the best. They have to believe it too or they're not willing to get shot at. The pregame of course is being berated for a couple months while doing pushups and cleaning bathrooms. So the coming praise is welcomed and internalized, along with illusions of achievement and invincibility.

Regional guys, basically none of that. They haven't been worked on.

that sounds exactly like my time as an Army pilot. Couldn’t have said it any better myself… all I heard was bathrooms though.

#104

jaxsurf , 10-03-2021 11:11 AM

Gets Weekends Off

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Originally Posted by fadec

Hahahahaha you have no idea what you’re talking about. Sounds like you watched Top Gun a few too many times.

As mentioned, fighter debriefs can be particularly humbling experiences, but even outside of those, literally nobody ever says that kind of stuff to/about pilots, at least in the USMC.

Most of the time we were just getting *****ed at about our ground jobs (where young captains are in charge of dozens of Marines; something a regional-only pilot would know nothing about).

#105

Cyio , 10-08-2021 05:19 AM

Gets Weekends Off

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Originally Posted by jaxsurf

(where young captains are in charge of dozens of Marines; something a regional-only pilot would know nothing about).

Eh, I mean you never know. Not all regional pilots are 23 years old. Some may have come from a place where they were in charge of dozens or even hundreds of people.

#106

MartyM , 10-08-2021 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Nvrgofullretard

do you know how many times you’re told you’re a POS and suck at flying in a fighter pilot debrief?

That's not exclusive to the fighter community lol... I don't miss planning a mission for three days. Then planning contingency plans. Then replanning because the plan changed. Rinse and repeat. Then getting tore up on your brief for every little thing that isn't agreed with or perfect, or because someone higher than you does it differently (different technique). And having some higher ranking desk jockey tearing you up for something they perceive to be wrong, but isn't, but you get called out anyway. Then finally flying the training mission, only to get tore up all over again in the debrief. Fun times.

#107

John Carr , 10-08-2021 05:47 AM

Gets Weekends Off

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Originally Posted by m3113n1a1

I'm sure your airline sucks too. They're all crap.

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Originally Posted by TransWorld

Yes, no airline is perfect. Different degrees of suck. First world problem. But Mesa is at the bottom of my list for regionals.

Its an old OLD joke from the “other” board.

Too bad “The Idiots guide to flightinfo” has become a private video….

That guy needs to make “The idiots guide to APC”

MESA sucks….

#108

jaxsurf , 10-08-2021 07:16 AM

Gets Weekends Off

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Originally Posted by Cyio

Eh, I mean you never know. Not all regional pilots are 23 years old. Some may have come from a place where they were in charge of dozens or even hundreds of people.

Yeah that's true. But many pilots have only ever been pilots and they don't have a very broad range of work experiences/responsibilities.

#109

Pilot Deviation , 10-08-2021 10:25 AM

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I get a kick out of the swa pilots who think everyone wants to work for them and fly a clapped out old 737 (all 737s are clapped out no matter the age) for five legs a day only to overnight in some three star hotel in Kansas City or some place like that.

#110

Burton78 , 10-08-2021 10:37 AM

Gets Weekends Off

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Originally Posted by Pilot Deviation

I’m not sure where you’re coming up with any of this.. But you do you!