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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Distractions during pre-flight. What could possibly go wrong?
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It wasn't even during pre-flight, you weirdo. It was in cruise for like 8 hours over the middle of the Pacific Ocean staring out the windows watching the air go by in HF contact, with SELCAL and using CPDLC. Is there anything in the current universe or human history about which you don't have an immediate, authoritative, clue-free Opinion?
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I started Oct 2007 at a regional. Checkride day Age 65 passed (5 yr stagnation). 6 months later The 2008-2010 GFC and recession. Then hired at a LCC in early 2012. 3rd quarter just ~7 months in the airline deferred all growth and went into survival mode. Many were certain it was going out of business and I got the resume ready again for regional airlines. Only by luck and timing was I able to be where I am today. Assuming this Covid damage does last 3-5 yrs for the airlines to recover as the experts predict, my career in 2023 would have seen more “bad” years than “good” years. So no, I’m not the poster child for these complainers of good times.
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Everybody that’s been in this industry for 10+ years has dealt with the timing.

You: Jet-U -> regional FO -> LCC -> merger with Legacy -> upgrade -> possible seat displacement

Tell us again about your first bankruptcy/furlough/divorce/career change/failed business/personal tragedy.

Dude, even your marriage was arranged for you. Get off your pedestal, it’s not nearly as tall as you think it is.
 
Boris Badenov said:
It wasn't even during pre-flight, you weirdo. It was in cruise for like 8 hours over the middle of the Pacific Ocean staring out the windows watching the air go by in HF contact, with SELCAL and using CPDLC. Is there anything in the current universe or human history about which you don't have an immediate, authoritative, clue-free Opinion?
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I am 100% rocking out across any ocean. Love my headset.

Ive has quieter captains assume I’m just sitting there staring out the window.
 
milleR said:
Everybody that’s been in this industry for 10+ years has dealt with the timing.

You: Jet-U -> regional FO -> LCC -> merger with Legacy -> upgrade -> possible seat displacement

Tell us again about your first bankruptcy/furlough/divorce/career change/failed business/personal tragedy.

Dude, even your marriage was arranged for you. Get off your pedestal, it’s not nearly as tall as you think it is.
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Ive had a similar run as Mansur, minus the upgrade, and I think I’m incredibly lucky. Also, I went to an actual school.

Did I work as hard to get everything right like @PeanuckleCRJ? Not even close. Those 8 years making at MOST $43k (and that was just once) were TOUGH. I learned a lot. Not just about aviation either. Ive learned to maintain cars and houses myself, because I couldn’t afford to hire a pro. Ive learned that you can be happy without the BMW and the McMansion in the burbs. If you treat others well and surround yourself with good people, even the hard times can be good.

I love my job a lot more right now, but my favorite time so far in the industry is being an IAD based CRJ-200 FO (#ACEYDC) and being super close with all my coworkers. It was damn hard, and there were a lot of crappy days. But god damn it was rewarding.

In terms of career progression, my timing is definitely a bit off. I always seem to get close to success and then everything stalls out. But I’m doing much better than I deserve.
 
milleR said:
Everybody that’s been in this industry for 10+ years has dealt with the timing.

You: Jet-U -> regional FO -> LCC -> merger with Legacy -> upgrade -> possible seat displacement

Tell us again about your first bankruptcy/furlough/divorce/career change/failed business/personal tragedy.

Dude, even your marriage was arranged for you. Get off your pedestal, it’s not nearly as tall as you think it is.
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Wow someone is getting really personal. Well, career change for starters? I left an engineering job paying paying good money to go to jet U, with no guarantee I’d walk out of it with a pilot job. That was the biggest gamble I took in my career. Earning that much money, walking away to 0 dollars, throwing 27k away at jet U, and potential nothing to show for it. Only by sheer luck and timing did I get hired at a regional. Had it been just a few months later, I’d have no flying job nor an engineering job in the 2008-2010 GFC. I went through 2 mergers with binding SLIs in the career, and 3 moves across the country. I have not been furloughed, yet anyway. The marriage comment was really below the belt, even for you. I met her family through family friends. You mean to tell me none of you ever met your wife through someone in your family who knew someone? vouching for someone is a pretty big thing in a lot of Asian cultures.

You missed the entire point of the conversation before. We were talking about people who were on cloud 9 having never seen any adversity or bad times in this industry (anyone the last several years) and thought it would last, because somehow THIS time, it was different. Enter Covid19. We will recover and then within another 10 yrs there will be another event that will cause us to go down again. Rinse, repeat.
 
Boris Badenov said:
It wasn't even during pre-flight, you weirdo. It was in cruise for like 8 hours over the middle of the Pacific Ocean staring out the windows watching the air go by in HF contact, with SELCAL and using CPDLC. Is there anything in the current universe or human history about which you don't have an immediate, authoritative, clue-free Opinion?
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I wouldn’t care in non critical cruise flight. Though you’re still not turning on Metallica cause I don’t want to hear it. Put your Bluetooth speakers on in your headset and rock your own world.

Sorry for the assumption what phase of flight it was. 14 yrs of airline flying, I’ve only seen music loud during the preflight before we leave. No one inflight has yet had the balls to put the music on loud speaker so the other pilot can hear it. Music is like politics and religion, just because you have your preferred version, it doesn’t mean it matches your fellow colleague. This ain’t about having opinions on everything or being authoritarian, it’s simply having some level of respect and boundary for the other guy.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Wow someone is getting really personal. Well, career change for starters? I left an engineering job paying paying good money to go to jet U, with no guarantee I’d walk out of it with a pilot job. That was the biggest gamble I took in my career. Earning that much money, walking away to 0 dollars, throwing 27k away at jet U, and potential nothing to show for it. Only by sheer luck and timing did I get hired at a regional. Had it been just a few months later, I’d have no flying job nor an engineering job in the 2008-2010 GFC. I went through 2 mergers with binding SLIs in the career, and 3 moves across the country. I have not been furloughed, yet anyway. The marriage comment was really below the belt, even for you. I met her family through family friends. You mean to tell me none of you ever met your wife through someone in your family who knew someone? vouching for someone is a pretty big thing in a lot of Asian cultures.

You missed the entire point of the conversation before. We were talking about people who were on cloud 9 having never seen any adversity or bad times in this industry (anyone the last several years) and thought it would last, because somehow THIS time, it was different. Enter Covid19. We will recover and then within another 10 yrs there will be another event that will cause us to go down again. Rinse, repeat.
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I apologize if the marriage comment was below the belt, I’m sorry for that. However, my big picture point here is that you yourself are on that cloud 9. That fact that you don’t see it, and list what you just did as your “list of hardships” says everything.

Your opinions would be better formed and more effectively communicated if you had a little more life experience. Try spending more time listening and less time opining.
 
milleR said:
I apologize if the marriage comment was below the belt, I’m sorry for that. However, my big picture point here is that you yourself are on that cloud 9. That fact that you don’t see it, and list what you just did as your “list of hardships” says everything.

Your opinions would be better formed and more effectively communicated if you had a little more life experience. Try spending more time listening and less time opining.
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Ok sorry if the only measurable metric is a furlough, loss of medical, or a divorce. I don’t have that.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Yeah, that was His Astutenesses' weird supposition. *OF COURSE* the C/A ASKED us whether we wanted to listen to his music. You'd have to be autistic not to, or...

to assume that he didn't?

In any case, it being Master of Puppets, obviously we both enthusiastically agreed! No commies on THAT flight deck!
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That's cool. Yeah, it's weird man... The few guys that I've flown with never asked, and had no SA at all (like not turning down the volume during briefs and so on). Super annoying obviously.
 
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