Why no calls to interview? Is it my speeding tickets?

ATN_Pilot said:
I am. And if I was in management, my only comment would be "this guy obviously has enough brain cells to rub together to figure out that traffic laws are BS. Hire this man!"
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I would love to see someone go into an interview and say traffic laws are BS. I'm sure that would go over well. There first reaction probably wouldn't be "hire the man", it would probably be more of a wonder if he'll follow the FAR's and their speed restrictions. People may not like the rules, but you have to follow them.

Like it or not what you do outside the cockpit does have an impact on what happens in it. They just see on paper he's got a lead foot and in their mind they probably think he's a liability if that is ever brought to the light of day. Meaning if you want to get hired and be at the top of the stack of resume's, don't give them a reason to say no to you.

The Op will be hired somewhere he's just probably not going to get to SKW without going somewhere first and doing 121 time and then proving that he's moved beyond the 10 tickets. SKW is desirable, hence they have that stack of resume's to chose from. Then again, in a year or two they could get hard up and hire the man. Anything is possible.
 
rocketman5150 said:
You have to consider the environments.

Flight schools have students training to be pilots. Of course they're going to make mistakes. That's what the training environment is for. You make the mistakes there so you learn how to avoid them in the "real world."

The airline's are not looking for Chuck Yeager. They want competent people who use superior judgement to avoid having to use superior stick and rudder skills. They don't want their airplanes operated anywhere near the edge of the envelope.
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Well maybe I should rephrase that. I didn't mean Chuck Yeager in that light, as in pushing the envelope. I'm talking about hiring instructors with a truthfully clean record. Yes it is a training environment, but a good instructor uses his/her superior judgement to recognize when the student is getting them into a compromising situation that could have implications on his/her pilot certificate.

I've managed nearly 1800 hours dual given with no pilot deviations or ASAP reports. It's not that hard.

I understand your point about an excessive amount of speeding tickets. It looks bad and is a potential liability to the airline. But what I don't understand is how potential pilot deviations covered by an internal incident reporting system are acceptable to the airlines from a safety standpoint.
 
at1024 said:
I've managed nearly 1800 hours dual given with no pilot deviations or ASAP reports. It's not that hard.

But what I don't understand is how potential pilot deviations covered by an internal incident reporting system are acceptable to the airlines from a safety standpoint.
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As someone who filled out an ASAP report literally yesterday, you never know when something will happen, even if you are conscientious, and try like hell to not get violated. ASAP is the best pro-safety thing to ever happen to the industry. For every event that you hear about/get violated for, etc., there are hundreds that go unnoticed and unaccounted for. ASAP attempts to learn about those events that you'd never hear about. You know, the ones where you look at the other guy and say, "ain't nobody ever gotta know about that one, right?"

Those high time pilots who haven't ever filled out an ASAP probably don't understand the program's intent. It isn't to CYA, it is for learning about the sole-source events that normally would go unnoticed. If you only fill out an ASAP for things that you think the FAA may call you about, you're doing it wrong.

Again, it's about learning, not CYA.

As far as deviations go, if you haven't yet, you will.

/rant
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I am. And if I was in management, my only comment would be "this guy obviously has enough brain cells to rub together to figure out that traffic laws are BS. Hire this man!"
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Frankly the way things happen these days. I'd be VERY surprised about anyone going through their 20s with a clean background. I'm a yougin but even my teens and early 20s were *you get beat with a rubber hose and sent on your way* kind of thing. Not at all that way these days.
 
3green said:
I would love to see someone go into an interview and say traffic laws are BS. I'm sure that would go over well. There first reaction probably wouldn't be "hire the man", it would probably be more of a wonder if he'll follow the FAR's and their speed restrictions. People may not like the rules, but you have to follow them.

Like it or not what you do outside the cockpit does have an impact on what happens in it. They just see on paper he's got a lead foot and in their mind they probably think he's a liability if that is ever brought to the light of day. Meaning if you want to get hired and be at the top of the stack of resume's, don't give them a reason to say no to you.

The Op will be hired somewhere he's just probably not going to get to SKW without going somewhere first and doing 121 time and then proving that he's moved beyond the 10 tickets. SKW is desirable, hence they have that stack of resume's to chose from. Then again, in a year or two they could get hard up and hire the man. Anything is possible.
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Meh, he's qualified for much bigger and better. Considering what skywest will hire at least. I'm scratching my head over how a few speeding tickets would put him below a stack of resumes from CFIs, who aren't anywhere near this guy's experience level. All things considered, I could see the speeding tickets equalizing the freight flying out I guess
 
Well if he didnt insist on living a 1000 miles from base maybe he wouldn't be in such a hurry all the time. :)
 
I don't really care about his driving record, having flown with JayAre, I'd fly with him to hell and back without a second thought. He's got his head screwed on straight, better than most I've run into, and my guess is that he's just trolled the crap out of you guys.
 
jtrain609 said:
I don't really care about his driving record, having flown with JayAre, I'd fly with him to hell and back without a second thought. He's got his head screwed on straight, better than most I've run into, and my guess is that he's just trolled the crap out of you guys.
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Epic win!
 
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