We have dumbasses here at American too. I just found out that we recently canned an FO for taking a selfie and posting it to instagram during taxi with a Fed on the jump seat. Go figure. No need for the whole group to pay.

 

Briefing UAL jumpseaters be like...

 

Is this the same FO that also took a phone call during the takeoff roll with a fed in the jump?

Also the same FO that meows on guard during OE?

So many stories that have zero verification of authenticity. Just stories being passed along within the pilot group, especially ones with the agenda that the new hires are idiots and we need 67 to save the world group.

 

Better to not find out. All others are more than welcome. I wouldn’t have her ride with me in an Uber.

 

Is this a trick question?


Yes, A leopard does not change its spots. Have at it, you and her can be buddies.

 

Efff that. This wasn't a lapse in mentoring. I guess the CA that gave up her seat to a pax needs mentoring, too. Some decisions are 100% because someone's a prick or dumba$$. Losing energy on approach and slamming it in is a case for mentoring. Not my job to think of a super-random, off-the-wall, never happens, dumb a$$ thing, and protect someone from themselves. Maybe I'll take a minute to remind a half-winger not to take a dump in the galley when the lav is occupied...

 

Valid points.


Not defending her at all, but I don't have the full story, and I don't think you do either. One of the stories I saw circulating was that she casually mentioned to her husband about the flight home that the crew got slow before throwing the flaps out and if she had maybe spoken out, and that it was her husband that dropped the dime.

Again... just how DUMB do you have to be if you're an airline pilot to go out of your way to drop a dime on an OAL crew to the FAA? Who does that?!

I don't know if this is true, but you tell me what makes more sense.... an airline pilot who has been an airline pilot before her current job riding on the OAL jumpseat and dropping a dime on a crew for being slow to call for flaps, or her halfwit drama-loving, world-saving husband?

Again, not trying to defend her as she could very well be dumber than a box of rocks and actually do something like this, but how many pilots have you met in your career so far that would do something this dumb? There's gotta be more to the story than this.

 

Hasnt the dumb been proven on video with a female captain and a charter group? Especially now since we are hiring with no degree. Heard one bragging on the tk shuttle she only has a ged. So yes?

 

That's a cool story ... the husband is at fault. Several swiss cheese holes in that excuse, but I'm not going to go into why that excuse is problematic.
Don't care.
I don't know the pilot's name, don't care. I will, however, screen every United pilot who wants to ride my jumpseat who fits her profile. And I'm a United pilot.

I've commuted most of my career and given jumpseaters a ride for more than 20 years. I have never heard of anything remotely close to this ever happening before. Mentor this? Not possible to mentor such things that are so common sense. Do I also need to tell newhires to change their underwear daily? Where does the common sense mentoring end? This can't be fixed with mentoring so all you 'mentor mores' stop. You're being almost as stupid (not quite as stupid, by a nose) as the person who caused this.

 

Don't be so generous. There are currently 30 other UAL Saving Company Again Brotherhood pilots who should be on your list, too.