Almost cancelled, the Boeing 737 has endured 49 years

mshunter said:
They are all torture devices. No matter how much you like your job, work, is still a four letter word. When I was a kid, my mom washed my mouth out with soap for using other four letter words.
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I don't know, my job is a job when I'm on my way to work missing out on stuff, but everytime I walk up the stairs into the cab, it's just fun. 4 years later.

Some planes are more fun to fly than others, on any level I'm sure.
 
ChasenSFO said:
The 737-200 has always been one of my favorite jets. I loved watching the reversers open on landing as a kid. From a flying perspective, a Part 91 you own the plane do what you want with it perspective that is, I see it as loud, smokey, and small enough to put around the sky a bit compared to bigger airliners while also being able to get into smaller airports As they're still around and relatively cheap, a dream of mine would be to have the money to get one restored and painted up in some airlines colors, fly the crap out of it in a display(well within it's structural limits of course), then donate it to a museum after that final flight. Better than the scrapyard.
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My first flight ever was in a Southwest 737-200... in the row with the weird club seating haha
 
trafficinsight said:
Southwest kept them around long enough to wear the canyon blue paint.
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Just one got painted in those colors a little while before retirement. TWA did the same with just one L-1011 and UA with a 747SP, just a symbolic thing is all. The blue one was donated to a museum I think, at least the nose section. The TWA and United planes actually ended up stored side-by-side in LAS back when it had aircraft storage areas in the 90s near the current Las Vegas Sands ramp and FBOs. I'd like the say the L-1011 was broken up, but the 747SP is still flying today as the NASA SOFIA airborne observatory.
 
SpiceWeasel said:
@ChasenSFO you applied to gateway 7 right? :p
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Why pay a few thousand dollars for the 20-30 hours of training I need to finish the rest of my ratings and possibly end up meeting jetBlue minimums in 4 years when I can pay $125,000 and get hired without having to worry myself with trivial things such as minimums? It's like a shortcut down an alleyway with a man in a hoody standing ominously between you and your car, sometimes you just have to take the shortcut, even if you do get robbed in the process.
 
If they have to pay you to do it, it's a job.

You don't want to fly with the ones who'd do it for free.

Richman
 
Richman said:
If they have to pay you to do it, it's a job.

You don't want to fly with the ones who'd do it for free.

Richman
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Absolutely, and a job with a lot of responsibility and sacrifice that should pay accordingly. But, it is a pretty cool job. Don't forget that. Very few people care about what they do, and even fewer can sustain themselves and get more than 8 days off per month with a job they love.

That being said, anyone who willingly does it for free OR undercuts the going rate for their own quick way to the cockpit deserves a proper kick to the nads and public shaming.
 
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