Local JEEET dirver harrasing me.

Monk

Monk

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So, I would not sign off this kid who was NOT prepared (150' off everytime in steep turns, among many others). I get a phone call from my boss who recieved a call from a local AIRLINE pilot who believes that I am being too harsh on his buddys kid and that he is more than ready for the check ride. UGH
Turns out Mr. Capt'n signed him off and sent him 40 miles down the road to a Santa Clause DE he knows and the kid makes it through the ride.... great, good for him.... but now they are calling still and complaning about him not being signed off by me......ahhhhhhhhh:fury:
 
We had a similar problem with an ATP rated corporate jet pilot and his daughter at my old flight school. The instructor said she wasn't ready to solo, so the jet pilot decided he would fly with her and "train" her, even though he wasn't a CFI. They ended up botching a go around and putting the airplane upside down in a ditch. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
 
Monk said:
So, I would not sign off this kid who was NOT prepared (150' off everytime in steep turns, among many others). I get a phone call from my boss who recieved a call from a local AIRLINE pilot who believes that I am being too harsh on his buddys kid and that he is more than ready for the check ride. UGH
Turns out Mr. Capt'n signed him off and sent him 40 miles down the road to a Santa Clause DE he knows and the kid makes it through the ride.... great, good for him.... but now they are calling still and complaning about him not being signed off by me......ahhhhhhhhh:fury:
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If he ends up bending an airplane down the road, it's not your name on the line at least.

I had a "verbal" with a student's parents during my CFI days. I told the parent that the call was mine, the parent said "He's ready" and I told him to go ahead and sign him off. He said he couldn't and I just smiled and said, "I know".
 
1. what's a "JEEET"?

2. He's obviously found somebody who will do his training, and you have less stress. If everybody's happy, why are they still calling you?
 
ok, ok I did the jet thing wrong, somebody help a brother out and do it for me.
 
I ran into a similar situation where I work, but it ended up being more funny than frustrating.

We got a call from a MAJOR AIRLINE CAPTAIN (don't recall who he worked for) who was interested in his kid starting flight training. During the conversation with our chief pilot, the guy started demanding that his kid could only be trained by a CFI with over 1000hrs dual given, and made it quite clear several times that he was a MAJOR AIRLINE CAPTAIN and had gone to Embry Riddle.

Once he was informed that the instructor who would be training his son had "only" 900 hours dual given, Mr. Captain re-stated his demands, and started getting pretty belligerant over the phone and was also wanting to know why we didn't have a Riddle gradaute working for us. At this point, the chief pilot decided this was going to far more trouble than it was worth, and ended the conversation in a pretty spectacular manner.

"Sir, our instructors are extremely good at what they do, and we make it a point not to hire Embry-Riddle graduates, good day."

Before I get yelled at about the Riddle comment, it's not actually a policy we have in place (if we need instructors, we'll hire anyone qualified), but we've had terrible luck with Riddle grads before. The only Riddle grad we'd hired in the past was fired for trying to scam a customer by billing for absurd amounts of ground that never happened, and we've had several Riddle grads do rental checkouts who had no idea how to fly an airplane without a G1000, to the point where the instructor had to intervene to prevent an accident on takeoff or landing.
 
Derg said:
The preferred nomenclature is "jjjjjjjjjjjets" as in "OMG, upgrade times?! Bases? I wanna fly those shiny jjjjjjjjjjjjets, spike my hair, clip my ID onto my epaulet and get forehead sunglasses". :)
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Did you see me in ATL today?? :D


I keed keed, I don't have any hair to spike;)
 
One of my now former students was mad at me after not soloing at 15 hours. The last time I flew with him he had 25 hours, and he hadn't made any progress at all in terms of his ability. His confidence, however, took a giant leap. He learned more in those 10 hours or so with my boss that he knew more than I did and refused to listen to me. He would smirk and do a mocking-like mouth gesture whenever I would remind him about his altitude or airspeed. Finally, I let him fly one round in the pattern without reminding him of altitude/airspeed and we crossed the runway threshold at 1,400AGL.

He told me that his 747 captain friend told him that he should have his private by 15 hours. I don't think that there is actually a real 747 captain in the picture, though.
 
Ajax BU said:
Finally, I let him fly one round in the pattern without reminding him of altitude/airspeed and we crossed the runway threshold at 1,400AGL.
h.
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LOLOLOLOL

AWESOME!!!

I can even picture that one in my head. I think we have similar teaching styles. The closest I've come to that was during an instrument lesson. MDA was ~400ft and we crossed the threshold at ~1000ft.
 
Chief Captain said:
1. what's a "JEEET"?
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I dunno. I think the additional E's makes the Jet faster but urban dictionary defines it as an outdated trend which at one particular time, made it cool to poke fun at regional airline pilots.

I was wondering what a Dirver is? Maybe the OP meant driver but what is an airplane driver? A person limited to taxi only operations such as a mechanic or other non licensed personnel.
 
^^A jet driver is similar to a Cirrus driver. In this case it is someone who operates a jet, but somehow has no idea what it means to be a pilot, and therefore no respect for other pilots.
 
Hacker15e said:
Oh, no, it's definitely not outdated.
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But do you still find it funny? I laughed at the joke the first 5 times but after years of the same joke, it's just played out. You guys need to come up with something new to make fun of those suffering from SJS.
 
Jet said:
But do you still find it funny? I laughed at the joke the first 5 times but after years of the same joke, it's just played out. You guys need to come up with something new to make fun of those suffering from SJS.
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Absolutely it's still funny...because the root of the jokes still appears to remain true.

Either way, that urbandictionary reference is guaranteed to stoke the fires of ridicule for years to come -- evidence that the jokes are eliciting the desired response.

Besides, do you really think this is something new? Aviation is FULL of communities that are constantly making fun of one another for whatever reason. It's probably been that way since Orville made fun of Wilbur in 1903. It NEVER gets old because there are constantly new pilots taking their place in line behind us. You think I don't get tired of the same played out jokes that every Navy pilot makes about Air Force pilots? Think I don't get tired of the same "Kernel" threads on FlightInfo and APC bashing former military guys flying at the airlines?

If it bugs you, get some thicker skin, because it's not going anywhere. If you have some wittier observations, feel free to use them instead!
 
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