A question for our CAL brothers
07-28-2014 | 06:20 PM
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I didn't say it was derogatory. I mentioned it only because it's funny our CAL brothers get upset with Guppy being a childish term for an airplane and yet, they call the training center "schoolhouse".
I've got friends at all those airlines and I haven't heard them say "schoolhouse" in reference to their training centers. Maybe they're just embarrassed to say "schoolhouse".
I've got friends at all those airlines and I haven't heard them say "schoolhouse" in reference to their training centers. Maybe they're just embarrassed to say "schoolhouse".
07-28-2014 | 06:29 PM
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07-28-2014 | 06:29 PM
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I don't get why any of this troubles anyone. The terms are nicknames, calling a corvette a vette or a thunderbird a T bird. American also calls the training center the school house. I was told that TK stood for technical knowledge. Who gives a crap? As long as the checks don't bounce I don't care if you call a 737 a 737, a 37, a 73 a guppy or anything else.
07-28-2014 | 06:31 PM
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I don't get why any of this troubles anyone. The terms are nicknames, calling a corvette a vette or a thunderbird a T bird. American also calls the training center the school house. I was told that TK stood for technical knowledge. Who gives a crap? As long as the checks don't bounce I don't care if you call a 737 a 737, a 37, a 73 a guppy or anything else.
07-28-2014 | 06:31 PM
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I didn't say it was derogatory. I mentioned it only because it's funny our CAL brothers get upset with Guppy being a childish term for an airplane and yet, they call the training center "schoolhouse".
I've got friends at all those airlines and I haven't heard them say "schoolhouse" in reference to their training centers. Maybe they're just embarrassed to say "schoolhouse".
I've got friends at all those airlines and I haven't heard them say "schoolhouse" in reference to their training centers. Maybe they're just embarrassed to say "schoolhouse".
I don't know you, but I want you to honestly dig deep and ask yourself if your energy is best spent pointing out how we are different or how we are alike, and then ask yourself which one better serves you, your peers, and your employer.
Have a good evening. Back to my books because I have some training at the training center coming up.
I was at L-CAL and I called the 737 a lot of things, usually worse than guppy. Just as I don't pretend to know every L-UAL guy, I try to avoid using absolutes or relying on rumors on how "they" are.
07-28-2014 | 06:36 PM
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Use the search function on this forum and see how many times that word comes up on other threads, in other subforums belonging to other airlines.
I don't know you, but I want you to honestly dig deep and ask yourself if your energy is best spent pointing out how we are different or how we are alike, and then ask yourself which one better serves you, your peers, and your employer.
Have a good evening. Back to my books because I have some training at the training center coming up.
I was at L-CAL and I called the 737 a lot of things, usually worse than guppy. Just as I don't pretend to know every L-UAL guy, I try to avoid using absolutes or relying on rumors on how "they" are.
I don't know you, but I want you to honestly dig deep and ask yourself if your energy is best spent pointing out how we are different or how we are alike, and then ask yourself which one better serves you, your peers, and your employer.
Have a good evening. Back to my books because I have some training at the training center coming up.
I was at L-CAL and I called the 737 a lot of things, usually worse than guppy. Just as I don't pretend to know every L-UAL guy, I try to avoid using absolutes or relying on rumors on how "they" are.
07-28-2014 | 06:43 PM
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Bunkies, guppies, and unicorns... oh my!
07-28-2014 | 06:58 PM
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I bet you're trolling. At any rate, I'm surprised the mil folks haven't chimed in already. The term came from the military. The RAG/FTU/RTU (depending on the branch of service), which are the squadrons responsible for and whose primary mission it is to conduct initial and upgrade training for the major weapon systems in question, get called the "schoolhouse" for the respective airframe. As military culture flows into the employment rolls of the airlines, so does the vernacular. Not all that cosmic really.
Nobody on this side would ever consider such a moniker remotely derogatory. I was raised part 61 before my military days and I can't say I've met a civilian pilot who considers such a use derogatory either.
Nobody on this side would ever consider such a moniker remotely derogatory. I was raised part 61 before my military days and I can't say I've met a civilian pilot who considers such a use derogatory either.
07-28-2014 | 07:03 PM
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S-UA used the term Schoolhouse as well, and Hindsight's explanation of the term in mil-circles is also correct.
Coto is correct; I too had heard it stood for "(College of) Technical Knowledge."
Coto is correct; I too had heard it stood for "(College of) Technical Knowledge."
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