Aviation Megathread | "It is not a pilot shortage. It is a pay shortage"

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Butt Reactor: Oct 6, 2005; Even in zero gravity, you're an asshole.

Uh, do 152s fall under the same category as 150s?

(in case you can't read the altimeter, WingX Pro has a handy GPS altimeter readout :ssh:

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# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 06:53

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 15:02

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The Ferret King posted:

Well they have 10 more horsepower. I see you're wearing gloves. I'm guessing no passenger and partial fuel.

That and it was over Colorado in mid January :shudder:

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 07:49

Butt Reactor: Oct 6, 2005; Even in zero gravity, you're an asshole.

Wasn't the RR300/RR500 supposed to be a replacement for midrange piston engines? I've seen a few centurions and the like with those conversions installed.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 05:59

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The Slaughter posted:

The E175 has a really nice passenger experience, with the 2 lavs and the fairly spacious seating and actual overhead bins. I like it better than the CR9's I have been on. Whoever designed the main cabin door was an idiot, though, it's really easy to get your finger sliced off in that thing if you aren't paying attention.

Or if you're a flight attendant, accidentally deploying the slide like some of our FAs did :laugh:

Also CRJ chat: one of my sim instructors had good descriptors for the variants: the -200 is the classic, the -700 is the stretch, and the -900 is the heavy.

Butt Reactor fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Aug 4, 2015

# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 20:53

Butt Reactor: Oct 6, 2005; Even in zero gravity, you're an asshole.

Tablet chat: currently rocking an iPad mini, but I almost never use it flight. The Jepp binder fits well enough on the side clipboard in the CRJ, but we're supposed to be getting Surface 3 tablets with the ridiculous suction cup mounts any day now :chloe:

# ¿ Aug 10, 2015 04:15

Butt Reactor: Oct 6, 2005; Even in zero gravity, you're an asshole.

Is it just me or do dead airplanes and dead birds look similar, with having their feet sticking up?

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 22:08

Butt Reactor: Oct 6, 2005; Even in zero gravity, you're an asshole.

Try not to get confused with the submarine/yacht captains out there, Slaughter

Animal posted:

After all that bitching and moaning he finally made it to the regionals! Congrats!

Now bend over here comes scheduling

Hence no better name than "Screw Support"...

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 04:16

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azflyboy posted:

Since the industry has finally shifted towards a "pilot's market", the management strategy of "threaten to give the flying to someone else unless the pilots take pay cuts" is completely toothless right now (since regionals can barely staff their current contracts, let alone add any new flying) , to the point where even a non-union regional had to offer their pilots a pretty nice pay and benefit increase to try and attract enough new people to keep up with attrition.

the $30h/hr pay raise is pretty good for us first year guys, but the 1.5% for everyone else was kind of insulting I thought. A lot of my colleagues over at Angry Pilot Central _{(not my nickname for that place unfortunately)} were dumbfounded it passed on the second try.

Not looking forward to the brewing shitstorm over at RAH. We might have a few of E175 drivers knocking on our door soon, or a lot of new flying suddenly smacking us in the face in a couple months :derp:

# ¿ Aug 26, 2015 05:39

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two_beer_bishes posted:

Jetblue policy is not to use reversers unless required due to runway contamination or length. The reasoning being brake usage is better than engine wear.

Also one of the reversers could have been MELed so neither would be used.

Really? almost the opposite SOP at my company. We almost* always deploy reversers on the CRJ, before using brakes, and we still use them even if one is deferred.

*_{It should be always, but there's a few times crews have forgotten to arm them on descent so on landing it's a bit of an awkward surprise when they don't deploy...oops}

# ¿ Aug 31, 2015 05:56

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Not to mention $4.9 million, but at least both sides of the company are glad he's out!

# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 04:16

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Republic, probably

# ¿ Sep 27, 2015 00:39

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Jealous Cow posted:

Peace? lol

The Rev. Bedford likes to end emails in a laid back manner maybe?

# ¿ Oct 8, 2015 05:37

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PT6A posted:

God willing, US politicians will be banned from flying because they seem to be really poo poo at it.

Careful, you'll piss off Apollo, he'll obviously argue that it was all the FAA's fault somehow :bahgawd:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 06:53

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ORD insanity

Oh man, where to start...People complain about landing and getting to the gate, but how about getting out of the ramp and to runway? I once worked with an ex AA captain who was ORD-based, he and his FO one day had a helluva time trying to go from ramp to ground and get a taxi clearance. So what did they do? They gunned their 737 into an opening between two other AA aircraft taxiing by and followed them all the way to the departure runway without speaking to ANYONE on ground. Switched to tower, and rather than being reprimanded for getting all the way there without a clearance, they simply get cleared for takeoff with nary a fluster from the controller. :ninja:

Earlier this summer flew into Chicago and it was a shitshow, apparently some new controllers were training on ground frequency. Captain was already impatient and irked at the longer-than-usual delays, so he makes things worse by snapping at one of the controllers for a taxi clearance to the gate. Pissed, the controller gives us the long way around the airport as punishment, but it ended up being a shorter time to the gate since our original taxi route was a complete cluster. Oh yeah, and the captain thanked the controller for the "shorter" routing :stonklol:

Most days I don't, but some days I do miss the absolute beautiful SNAFU O'Hare can be when you're flying in/out of there.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 00:09

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Rolo posted:

The loving Truth

I agree to all this and more. Yeah it sucks being away from home and missing all the holidays, your friends and all that but sometimes you get killer views like this:

azflyboy posted:

I currently fly for a regional with a parent company that's making record profits, and their management is threatening to park 40% of our airplanes and outsourcing the flying to a non-union airline unless agree to concessions in our contract, which is a pretty good example of the lack of stability in this industry.

I work for said non-union carrier, and I think it's lovely that AAG is basically forcing you guys to go with this. It happens all too often in the airline biz that Major X threatens Regional A with switching flying to Carrier Z unless they chicken out and decide to cut costs with sometimes dire effects (see Pinnacle, Colgan, etc). So unless you really like working for the lowest bidder and constant whipsawing between companies, don't pursue an airline job.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 19:57

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vessbot posted:

Well holy poo poo. Turns out the State of Montana still maintains some of these in service!

Yeah they've been around awhile, I regularly see these two (star marked with arrows) flying in and out of Missoula at night

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 05:48

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Stupid Post Maker posted:

A bunch of guys from my company went to Compass. I want to go home to Chicago for at least a year though

We have a $1250 referral bonus over at OO too :ssh:

Not only that, but we also have bases in ORD and LAX and everywhere in between. Plus we just scored a 19+ E175 contract with delta, so back off slaughter :arghfist:

_{seriously though people should PM us regional guys if you want to work for us (what are you thinking ) and want a cut of the referral pie}

# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 03:03

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