Operators with bases at KCM airports

Van_Hoolio said:
I don't get why so many crew members use their passport for the ID requirement. Isn't it easier, perhaps faster to just get the driver license out of the wallet?
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Jordan93 said:
Yea it’s a mystery to me too. Unless they have their passport ready in their pocket, which is rarely the case.
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My passport it easier to get to than my drivers license. It is tough to get my license out of my wallet.
 
Cptnchia said:
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Thank you. Saved me the trouble of finding this.
 
ASpilot2be said:
My passport it easier to get to than my drivers license. It is tough to get my license out of my wallet.
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I used my passport briefly because my license expired....which was discovered by Mr. TSA. Then I had a cheesey paper “temporary” license that AK gives you as if that’s any good. Got me thrown out of a bar. It was a tough week.
 
When I renewed my passport I spent the extra $30 for the passport card. It stays in my ID holder, I never have to pull my out my wallet or passport. Call me lazy but it's $30 well spent in my book.
 
SkyDogSilver said:
I still don’t understand how KCM works or is even supposed to work.

I’ve been told something different each and ever time I’ve tried to utilize it. I’ve been told to go through the regular line, this airport doesn’t do that, and even you must be in uniform to use that (sorry, but this is my uniform, I don’t wear a tie and shoulder boards). So I’ve resigned myself to just going through the regular livestock lines. I get less eyeballing going through the general fodder checkpoints with my flightbag than trying to pull out that silly KCM.
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I've never gone through KCM in uniform in 3 years.
 
ShortField said:
I used my passport briefly because my license expired....which was discovered by Mr. TSA. Then I had a cheesey paper “temporary” license that AK gives you as if that’s any good. Got me thrown out of a bar. It was a tough week.
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That is a rough week. I hate those temporary licenses.
 
poser765 said:
I had a bloke in sjc tell me I had to use kcm because I needed a boarding pass to go through the regular line.

My favorite are the few places that make me take my ID out of the badge holder.
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Oh man, tried to go to through regular security in SFO in uniform after a trip to hop on Japan flight figuring I could change later once I got situated. The confusion of "why are you here? Why aren't you at KCM?", trying to explain their own rule about that to them, then them debating with each other who said I had to go through the body scanner instead of the metal detector while I stand in the scanner for 5 minutes. "Guys... the whole time you've been standing here you could have scanned me 5 times by now."
 
SkyDogSilver said:
You must have missed the part where I stated I have received a different response every time I’ve presented it. I’ve read the frequent e-mails expounding the benefits and simple actions supposedly needed to use it and I never received the same response, let alone anything resembling what the KCM site states I should expect regarding interaction at checkpoints. Which if you want to directly relate the operation of my airframe would be like even after reading the POH and trying to fire up the APU and having the wheels fall off. Then the next time I do the same action the landing lights come on. But never in the amount of attempts does the APU ever come online.

So yea, I must be a real nitwit for not figuring out something that has no consistency; that I use maybe a handful of times a year, dealing with a government organization that is the butt of jokes dealing with our profession.

It’s nice to see there are a few sour nitwits even here. I was a bit worried this place was classier that airlinepilotcentral, but I think if we all try hard enough we can get snide enough with each other and really make great things happen here too.

Piss off.
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It's the same everywhere. Find the checkpoint via the website, scan barcode, show ID. Uniform or not it doesn't really matter.
 
mshunter said:
You're getting old.
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Nah, I've just seen the same stupid flight crew tricks for too long.

Arrive ready to scan, scan/show, GTF out da way. Rinse. Repeat.

Sweet, yay we're all pilots, no I don't know the guy you're referring to, I'm flying to somewhere i"m probably not staying so it really doesn't matter, yeah we're hiring, sorry you don't meet the mins, check the Facebook page, Airbus, yeah 320, same type as the others, I'm not answering any more questions, Scan, show, shake your ass! :)
 
poser765 said:
I had a bloke in sjc tell me I had to use kcm because I needed a boarding pass to go through the regular line.

My favorite are the few places that make me take my ID out of the badge holder.
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Now then, Not much of a bloke was he?

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skypilot6 said:
When I renewed my passport I spent the extra $30 for the passport card.
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I got that too. Good alternative form of ID. I use it when buying booze at the store, so they can't see my personal info like when they scan the barcode on the back of a driver license.
 
Derg said:
And if you or your crew uses KCM, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD make sure they arrive at the checkpoint prepared to scan, show and move on quickly.

The seconds you spend digging through your man-bag, or your purse, then casually scanning your ID and the "pleasantries" like "Hows your mom? Oh we're flying to Akron!" adds up to minutes and adds delay. Kind of like rubbernecking on the freeway at an accident, you've just caused a 20 mile ongoing "ripple" on the freeway that can last for hours.

Have your crap out and ready to go. Period. I don't even care why you didn't, if you don't, step the hell aside.

My biggest pet peeve are ourselves.
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I feel like the biggest ass when the scanner doesn’t seem to want to scan my barcode.
 
poser765 said:
Story?
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A regional pilot decided, for some reason to make a hi res color scan of his ID. Later, he lost his real ID, and instead of reporting it, just printed out the copy that he made earlier and stuck it in the holder. Passed for a while, until someone caught it. After that, the blueberries are required to touch the ID to make sure it isn’t a photocopy.

We are our own worst enemy.
 
This is true.

And why do ID's require crushproof "holders" anyway? If it gets jacked during an unusually rough 'n tumble walk-around, just call corporate security for another.
 
Derg said:
This is true.

And why do ID's require crushproof "holders" anyway? If it gets jacked during an unusually rough 'n tumble walk-around, just call corporate security for another.
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Some places, yes some, charge you for a replacement.

#regionalscum
 
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