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Captain Apollo posted:Gross, a tail dragger. Piper Cubs own hard. 
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Nov 18, 2014 06:41
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Okay yeah - My time in a piper cub was absolutly amazing. That is, until I actually wanted to fly home..... In something that was faster than 60mph......... That had a heater.............
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Nov 18, 2014 07:14
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That's where a husky is useful. Also tailwheel supremacy.
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Nov 18, 2014 11:06
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Captain Apollo posted:Okay yeah - My time in a piper cub was absolutly amazing. Yeah we were planning on taking a Mooney but the loving mechanic put the tail on backwards. Tailwheel for life. Sorry if you hate fun.
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Nov 18, 2014 15:11
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Only ever flown non-tailwheel Cubs. Luckily they floated.
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Nov 18, 2014 15:20
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Captain Apollo posted:Gross, a tail dragger. Tail draggers are great when you're trying to land a plane on a helipad.
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Nov 18, 2014 15:20
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fordan posted:Only ever flown non-tailwheel Cubs. This is a valid excuse. I bet it was a blast.
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Nov 18, 2014 15:27
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Rolo posted:Yeah we were planning on taking a Mooney but the loving mechanic put the tail on backwards. I wish I could empty quote this for days.
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Nov 18, 2014 16:45
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Things that happened on last nights flight: -Aircraft down for MX -Aircraft listed at wrong gate -Aircraft required security inspection prior to boarding that no one had bothered to sign off -Aircraft had to be de-fueled by 7,000 LBS -1+ hour wait for de-ice -Manual Weight and balance requiring a load manifest that ramp had forgotten to do -Multiple 30 minute waits for ramp personnel at various points during boarding/deiceing/push -When we finally got ready to push, our path was blocked by an aircraft parking at the next gate that couldn't park because they were waiting on our push crew. -We were being junior manned into an extra overnight (where it's 5 degrees F) -Pax boarded airplane 2.5 hours prior to push on a flight scheduled for 45 minutes were understandably upset. And the icing on the cake: -FAA inspector in the jump seat watching the whole thing. (Our careers are still intact) "I have never seen an operation fall apart this completely" -FAA inspector.
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Nov 18, 2014 17:42
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Rolo posted:This is a valid excuse. I bet it was a blast. It was, although I was amused that on the same trip to Florida to get the seaplane rating I also flew 1.0 dual in an aircraft that uses a hang-glider wing that went faster and higher than the seaplane. But seriously, if you have 2 days to spend in central Florida or anyplace with seaplanes, do the seaplane rating; it's the best way ever to avoid a biennial flight review.
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Nov 18, 2014 17:50
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fordan posted:It was, although I was amused that on the same trip to Florida to get the seaplane rating I also flew 1.0 dual in an aircraft that uses a hang-glider wing that went faster and higher than the seaplane. Name the school/location.
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Nov 19, 2014 01:20
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I'm going to guess Jack Brown's school in Winter Haven
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Nov 19, 2014 02:45
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Animal posted:I'm going to guess Jack Brown's school in Winter Haven Bingo. I usually try and get over there and do an hour or so with a CFI (since no one rents seaplanes without their CFI on board as far as I've seen) when down in the area for Sun 'n Fun. The hang glider winged thing was a Revo WSC trike from Evolution Trikes in Zephyrhills. Still so in lust with the Revo; almost impulse purchased one last year at SnF when they had a discounted one that a buyer opted not to get after already putting a deposit down.
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Nov 19, 2014 02:57
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Colonel K posted:That's where a husky is useful. Spent much of my summer making a fuckload of noise (and not getting anywhere too fast) in a Stearman. Best fun I've ever had in any aircraft ever. Leave the tricycles for the toddlers.
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Nov 19, 2014 08:22
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KodiakRS posted:Things that happened on last nights flight: I'm pretty sure a fatigue call would be perfectly justified after putting up with that level of BS. Why did you have to do a manual weight and balance? We use an in-house iPad app for our weight and balance, and despite the fact that IOS 8 kinda broke the software, I don't think anyone here has done a manual weight and balance in several years outside of ground school.
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Nov 19, 2014 08:38
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I don't even know how to do a weight and balance in a CRJ. You guys don't use ACARS?
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Nov 19, 2014 15:01
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Animal posted:I don't even know how to do a weight and balance in a CRJ. You guys don't use ACARS? We have an electronic W&B system that normally sends us a closeout over ACARS. The night of the fuckup our airplane was in the hanger having something fixed with the landing gear. After the mechanics signed off the airplane in the computer, but before the taxied it from the hanger to the gate it was assigned to our flight number in the computer. When the mechanics closed the door and released the parking brake ACARS sent an out time which the computer interpreted as our flight blocking out. At that point the W&B system locks out certain aspects of the closeout (Pax count) so when the airplane arrived at the gate the electronic W&B was effectively useless. Since the system W&B gets it's data from* is literally a 50+ year old computer program it's prone to failure, which is why we have the capability to do a manual W& KodiakRS fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Nov 19, 2014 21:43
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azflyboy posted:I'm pretty sure a fatigue call would be perfectly justified after putting up with that level of BS. Didn't we have some discussion before where I was shocked about these statements. A 3 hour delay is a "I'm too fatigued to fly" call? I mean if it was the 4th day and the 3rd leg and crap sleep all 3 nights then yeah, but taken at face value... this normal in the civilian world?
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Nov 20, 2014 05:16
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xaarman posted:Didn't we have some discussion before where I was shocked about these statements. Fatigue generally doesn't carry the risk of killing a couple hundred people in the normal civilian world either.
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Nov 20, 2014 13:27
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e.pilot posted:Fatigue generally doesn't carry the risk of killing a couple hundred people in the normal civilian world either. "What do you mean you're too fatigued to fly? Pussy! Fly anyway!" * accident occurs * "Obviously the pilot didn't have enough experience. Pilots should all have a million billion hours before flying with any passengers!"
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Nov 20, 2014 19:07
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So I'm asking for a friend here not me, thank gently caress. He has a significant amount of hours training done and is well over halfway through his atpls. But he's young and dumb and got caught driving drunk, he's months away from a court date but I'd imagine he's going to get a conviction out of this. My question is how hosed is he regarding an airline career? I'm not going to defend the drink driving but he's a good kid.
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Nov 20, 2014 19:40
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SomeDrunkenMick posted:So I'm asking for a friend here not me, thank gently caress. He has a significant amount of hours training done and is well over halfway through his atpls. But he's young and dumb and got caught driving drunk, he's months away from a court date but I'd imagine he's going to get a conviction out of this. Depends, how does he feel about poverty and Great Lakes?
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Nov 20, 2014 19:52
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SomeDrunkenMick posted:So I'm asking for a friend here not me, thank gently caress. He has a significant amount of hours training done and is well over halfway through his atpls. But he's young and dumb and got caught driving drunk, he's months away from a court date but I'd imagine he's going to get a conviction out of this. I can only speak for what I've heard in Canada, but: pretty hosed. Say goodbye to international flights even if someone's willing to ignore it and hire him, because a DUI conviction will make you inadmissible to a lot of countries. He should spend all of his money on a really, really good lawyer and do whatever it takes to plead down to a traffic violation rather than a criminal offence (it can be done, I know a guy who's been caught around 6 times and pretty much spends his way out of it every time, in both the US and Canada).
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Nov 20, 2014 20:17
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SomeDrunkenMick posted:So I'm asking for a friend here not me, thank gently caress. He has a significant amount of hours training done and is well over halfway through his atpls. But he's young and dumb and got caught driving drunk, he's months away from a court date but I'd imagine he's going to get a conviction out of this. When I was younger (and more stupid than I am now), I got a DUI. At the time, I was in school to be a physical therapist. When I went to court, I explained to the judge that a DUI would severely impact the years of schooling and could greatly affect my chances of employment after college. He had some degree of sympathy, and ordered me to pay $2,000 fine for running essentially a stop sign (I didn't come to a complete 2 second stop) and I had to do 100 hours of community service work. Granted, my BAC was .09 (legal limit is .08), I had been in no trouble previous to that, so that may have factored into his decision. There was also extenuating circumstances involved that caused my court date to be delayed for almost 2 years (I lived 300 miles away, the original judge had a stroke (small one judge town), my lawyer got throat cancer). Get a lawyer, plead the case as best as possible and hope for the best.
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Nov 20, 2014 21:06
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We're in Europe, if that makes any difference. That's basically been my advice to him so far, lawyer up and try to minimise the damage as much as possible. It would be the first time he's been in trouble but I think he was a nice bit over the limit. If he eats the conviction and gets an interview down the road how is this going to be found out by the airlines, will they ask him to disclose it on an application? I'm disregarding the police vetting process for ramp security clearance here. In other news I'm preparing to do a mock flight test for my cpl in the next few weeks. In a matter of a couple of months I'll be qualified to join the welfare queue with all the other pilots while I try to get hired. 
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Nov 20, 2014 21:43
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Got an interview for PSA coming up in a couple weeks  Also had one for Air Whisky, but they never called me back. Still waiting on Skywest, and I haven't even applied to Horizon yet...
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Nov 21, 2014 01:06
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Butt Reactor posted:Got an interview for PSA coming up in a couple weeks Way to go!!
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Nov 21, 2014 01:22
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e.pilot posted:Fatigue generally doesn't carry the risk of killing a couple hundred people in the normal civilian world either. The argument isn't that if fatigue is bad or not, it's that a 3 hour delay warrants a fatigue call, based on the information provided.
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Nov 21, 2014 01:25
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Butt Reactor posted:Got an interview for PSA coming up in a couple weeks Well, Air Whisky is getting all Endeavor's CRJ200s and PSA is getting all over Envoy's CRJ700s.
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Nov 21, 2014 01:45
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Friend just got hired by Horizon Air! Said 2/4 got the CJO, 1 sent home for being an rear end in a top hat (dropping f bombs in front of everyone, bragging about rocking the technical section) and the other apparently didn't have the sim go very well.
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Nov 21, 2014 01:50
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xaarman posted:Didn't we have some discussion before where I was shocked about these statements. Yeah usmc pilot here and obviously if it was a larger crew/maintenance/pax/weather issue here we'd call it but we work on a 12 hour crew day. The idea of calling it after 3 hours is pretty...different. Now I'll admit I may need a cup of coffee and a moment to recage my brain for flying after dealing with BS but when it comes down to it, there is no hard limit preventing you from flying.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:17
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A single 3 hour delay is not worthy of fatigue. After 4x 10-12 hour days filled with this sort of thing is a different story. For what it's worth, most of the former military pilots that I know who have transitioned into part 121 civilian operations say that fatigue is MUCH more prevalent on the civilian side. We average about 80 flight hours per month and hit the 100 hour monthly cap a few times a year which is apparently a lot more than the military guys. Butt Reactor posted:Got an interview for PSA coming up in a couple weeks I've spent a good portion of the last 20 minutes trying to figure out how I wanted to respond to this. All I'll say is make drat sure you do your research before you show up for a class at PSA (Or any airline for that matter).
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Nov 21, 2014 06:40
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KodiakRS posted:I've spent a good portion of the last 20 minutes trying to figure out how I wanted to respond to this. All I'll say is make drat sure you do your research before you show up for a class at PSA (Or any airline for that matter). Well it's not Great Lakes  . What's your humble opinion? Any way I can talk to you in private so we both don't get in trouble?
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Edited from  to: do your homework
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Nov 21, 2014 09:42
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I can understand why the Peidmont vote went the way it did, since a sizable chunk of their fleet was going to time out in the near future (they'd already started parking airplanes), so the vote was basically a self-preservation move. The PSA vote still makes no sense to me, since they were just another RJ operator at that point and were facing exactly the same issues as ExJet, Eagle, and Republic. At the time PSA voted, Eagle, Exjet and Republic had all rejected concessionary contracts, so it was pretty clear that regional pilots were finally gaining some leverage in negotiations, until PSA sold everyone else out. azflyboy fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Nov 21, 2014 |
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Nov 21, 2014 10:59
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ALPA posted:November 21st, 2014 Hot off the presses.
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Nov 21, 2014 13:40
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KodiakRS posted:I have heard rumors that American and U.S. Airways Captain review boards have copies of that list and are under instructions to not hire any one on it.* quote:Many airline pilots at both the regionals and the majors have little to no respect for PSA pilots. Being associated with PSA at this point may have negative career implications later down the road. Everyone said this same stuff about the GoJets pilots as well and they've had no problem finding employment. I REALLY wish it was true because it would slow/stop this kind of thing but it just doesn't hold water. As the majors need more pilots, they are going to hire anyone with a pulse. Edit: That being said, MANY pilots are filling PSA's halls right now for the chance at upgrade (just like GoJets). AWSEFT fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Nov 21, 2014 |
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Nov 21, 2014 13:54
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KodiakRS posted:Which brings us to PSA and Piedmont. Both were presented with concessionary contracts and both voted yes. In exchange for some shiny new airplanes and a weak flow though agreement PSA and Piedmont have effectively negated any leverage the regional airline pilots held. We waited 20+ years for this kind of an advantage and PSA sold us all out. Cheaply. To say that there is a lack of respect for PSA pilots amongst other regional pilots would be a colossal understatement. In the past few months I have heard PSA pilots called sellouts, SCABs and much much worse. I have personally seen a black list containing the names and hire date of every pilot currently at PSA. I have heard rumors that American and U.S. Airways Captain review boards have copies of that list and are under instructions to not hire any one on it.* So PSA and Piedmont pilots approved contracts which include flowthroughs which AA and US may not adhere to in the end because the review boards are pissed off at the pilots?
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KodiakRS posted:excellent post You're right, I knew some of that already, but I didn't know the exact details of scope clause and the other nastiness. The main reason I'm going is to get experience and practice for other interviews, I just haven't had any firm interview offers from anyone else yet.
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