I am so sick of Chuck Yeager...

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WacoFan said:
Now that bunk22 has left the Navy and is no longer cool but rather a regional pilot (most likely with spikey hair and a backpack), thus worthy of derision...and because Hacker15e is probably a short-timer as well and may end up doing something completely goofy (like flying for a regional) I've decided that JC needs a new "hero". MikeD would be a worthy candidate but he gets busy and frankly I think a lot of us are scared of him. I am naming you the new "Hero" of JC. As part of this I will be ending any post involving you with something like "Reporting for duty!" or "Mission accomplished sir!" or even "I'll take the short, chubby one Master!"

I encourage others to do the same.
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Personally, since my time flying for Uncle Sam has all but come to an end and my days of hair-on-fire-flying are pretty much over, I'm making it my objective to become the "Chuck Yeager of Regional Airlines".

I haven't yet decided if that means,

- I'm going to be the best damn stick-and-rudder pilot to ever manually fly an ILS down to mins in an RJ -- and make sure everyone I fly with knows it, or
- I'm going to be the biggest ex-military • to ever sit in the front office of an RJ -- and make sure everyone I fly with knows it.

But I have two years to figure that out.
 
Hacker15e said:
Personally, since my time flying for Uncle Sam has all but come to an end and my days of hair-on-fire-flying are pretty much over, I'm making it my objective to become the "Chuck Yeager of Regional Airlines".

I haven't yet decided if that means,

- I'm going to be the best damn stick-and-rudder pilot to ever manually fly an ILS down to mins in an RJ -- and make sure everyone I fly with knows it, or
- I'm going to be the biggest ex-military • to ever sit in the front office of an RJ -- and make sure everyone I fly with knows it.

But I have two years to figure that out.
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Why not do both?
 
SteveCostello said:
Why not do both?
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Hacker15e said:
Personally, since my time flying for Uncle Sam has all but come to an end and my days of hair-on-fire-flying are pretty much over, I'm making it my objective to become the "Chuck Yeager of Regional Airlines".

I haven't yet decided if that means,

- I'm going to be the best damn stick-and-rudder pilot to ever manually fly an ILS down to mins in an RJ -- and make sure everyone I fly with knows it, or
- I'm going to be the biggest ex-military • to ever sit in the front office of an RJ -- and make sure everyone I fly with knows it.

But I have two years to figure that out.
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I don't know you, but when I read that it made me think of this :)
 
That pretty much sums it up...except I'll be in the right seat of an RJ and there'll be a hotshot 25-year-old regional Captain that I'm yanking gear for.
 
WacoFan said:
LOL...You and Bunk will be jtrain609's second in command. And that's hilarious to me. People like surreal1221 or Jtrain etc will be telling you "kids" about things.
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<shrug>

Is what it is. As I've said many times before on here, whoever is in that left seat has a truckload more 121 experience than I do, so I do have plenty to learn about it. Airmanship is a journey, and there is no end point...always new experiences to add and skills to learn/hone. I don't have an ego so large that I'll have a problem being the SIC to someone with a different type of experience than I do, especially when there really are new things for me to learn from them.

I will try and refrain from conversations that start out with me saying, "back when you were still in high school, I was threat reacting to SAMs over Baghdad...." or obviously rolling my eyes at their "war stories" from regional 121 flying, or audibly sighing at the same, or one-upping their stories, etc. :D

Plus, my guess is that I'll leap-frog some (many? most?) of them to the majors based on experience and marketability...so, I can tolerate being their gear bitch for a year or three.
 
I have nowhere near the same level of mil experience as Hacker, but I would agree with his sentiment. I can't remember the last time I thought about what class of airspace I was in, or slowed below 10000 ft, or shot a STAR, or even flew a cross country that involved much more than going direct at my most favorable altitude. My flying experience is a weird niche that doesn't completely apply to other areas of aviation. Obviously the basics still apply (I can shoot an approach to mins, I can get from pt A to pt B, and I can make decisions in the air that make sense), but there is no way in the world that I would be ready coming out of this job to be PIC of anything with passengers in the back. Dealing with extreme WX as a norm, having automation in the cockpit, having more than one person in the jet (crew or otherwise), etc would all be completely foreign territory to me.
 
///AMG said:
I have nowhere near the same level of mil experience as Hacker, but I would agree with his sentiment. I can't remember the last time I thought about what class of airspace I was in, or slowed below 10000 ft, or shot a STAR, or even flew a cross country that involved much more than going direct at my most favorable altitude. My flying experience is a weird niche that doesn't completely apply to other areas of aviation. Obviously the basics still apply (I can shoot an approach to mins, I can get from pt A to pt B, and I can make decisions in the air that make sense), but there is no way in the world that I would be ready coming out of this job to be PIC of anything with passengers in the back. Dealing with extreme WX as a norm, having automation in the cockpit, having more than one person in the jet (crew or otherwise), etc would all be completely foreign territory to me.
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Reporting for duty sir!
 
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