Required Reading...

Derg said:
This.

Exactly my experience at Southernjets.

I would love to be a fly on the wall when MikeD finally breaks down and gets a job in the airline business! :)

"You can't backslap the other FO, Mike! I know he's an idiot, but we have to follow the protocol! Oh hell, kick his ass, but keep it on the down-low"
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Back in my day you could take 'em out back and beat 'em with a rubber hose. Now you've got your damn unions!

Oh hell, give me the soap. *chomp*
 
Four day follies by pilot x...awesome all rolled up in a book. Must read.

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"Moondog's Academy of the Air and Other Aviation Disasters" by Pete Fusco. "The Electra Story" and "She'll Never Get Off the Ground" by Robert Serling.
 
Thanks for posting this das, I'll give it a read.

My .02 is that the tech of the 1950s and 60s was soooo different as well. Living in Miami I picked up some radial time in the CV-440. I guess the best way I could describe it as such a crazy manual airplane compared to the RJ I fly now. It was basically, an olllld 737 mated with C-172, with VORs, NDBs, Pitot Static, Gyros, with round dials mated with a huge airframe. Flying NDB and VOR radials with no autopilot, the aftermarket DME was from the 1980s. We used a VFR GPS as a backup for our Caribbean stuff and shied away from any night flying and any sort of low IFR, the de-icing system was deactivated as well. I never did any the of the trips too far south (down to South America) but even the local Bahamas stuff I did was not for the faint of heart. I couldn't see anyone with out substantial IMC time with VORs and NDBs be an effective crew member on this behemoth. Furthermore, having been in the cockpits of some and seeing pictures of museum 707s, 727s, and 74's I don't see how any low time pilot could make the transition to such an animal without substantial experience.

Now with our Halo-playing generation flying the pink line and following the FD makes 300-500hr pilots going into an RJ not as extreme. A captain I flew with recently refers to the EICAS screen as his "whiny flight engineer." Pretty much says it all, an extra seat position and 6 foot panel removed and transformed into an 10" CRT.
 
Oh it's not that hard! We used to fly round dial 737-200's on the AR routes using only NDB's.
 
Derg said:
Oh it's not that hard! We used to fly round dial 737-200's on the AR routes using only NDB's.
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Bahamas aren't too bad I guess, but a DME arc into Mexico City or Guatamala in IMC with no radar approach control and wx radar, not exactly entry level stuff.
 
A Life Aloft said:
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Meh, flying airplanes isn't hard. As much as I get slightly annoyed by someone jostling me around due to poor skillllz, I'm hugely annoyed by an abrasive personality. Working smoothly as a crew successfully carries much more weight IMO.

That being said, freight dogs rule! :D
 
[quote="..... Despite the differences in height and shape, they seemed cast from the same mold...."[/quote]

Sounds very diverse :sarcasm:. I don't long for that era.
 
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