Pilot Differences

I may have missed it, but to me a large part of being a professional is doing the right thing even (and especially) when nobody is looking.

I like to think that philosophy helped me get through almost three years of single pilot freight unscathed and unviolated. :D
 
ESF, in the Air Force. . .doing the right thing when no one was looking was called integrity.

Being a professional. . .is having the highest level of integrity, along with performing your required daily tasks above the standard.

At least in my opinion. . .what do I know.
 
surreal1221 said:
Being a professional. . .is having the highest level of integrity, along with performing your required daily tasks above the standard.
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Hey, I was close. :)

I agree except I would say "striving to perform..." instead. Just because someone prangs one on once in awhile doesn't make them unprofessional. I hope. :D
 
Of course not. Get's back to the whole giving it your best. But hey, after 10 years of giving your best, and you still can't consistently (note - a few prangs are a-o-kay) perform above standards. . .then in my book - you're not a professional. :)
 
Another thing that makes a pilot a professional is always striving to improve. It does not matter how many flight hours I have, there is always something that I can learn from each flight. A professional pilot never stops learning.
 
pilot4500 said:
Anothing thing that makes a pilot a professional is always striving to improve. It does not matter how many flight hours I have, there is always something that I can learn from each flight. A professional pilot never stops learning.
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I fully agree with you on this one!
 
ZapBrannigan said:
My personal pet peeve is a pilot who may "grease it on" but he or she did so 50 feet left of the centerline. That is unacceptable. The nosewheel should lower onto the stripes. That's why they painted them. A smooth landing that is not made on centerline within the touchdown zone is sloppy.
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What if it's a formation landing?

My nosewheel is 50' left of centerline in that scenario, but I think that I'm doing a pretty damn professional job...

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For those of you with attention to detail, you'll see that's the 4 board passing off the left, meaning this shot is of a formation takeoff rather than a formation landing, but I didn't have any good form landing shots to post...
 
Dang...
Thanks for the quick replies guys...

2 pages in 1 day

Thanks for the great help... All this time I thought they were the same thing...

:banghead:
 
ZapBrannigan said:
Do you use spoilers excessively, or do you plan your descents so as to avoid their use?
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Overall I agree... But thats absolutely not the case with a 757 or 767... You will use spoilers on better than 95% of your flights. You could do an idle descent, but from a 12,000 foot downwind in ATL at 210 knots, you aren't getting more than 1200 fpm even with flaps 5... that will make for a nice 25 mile final. The flaps on those airplanes simply don't create any significant amount of drag.

This is why FlyingSig stated what he did... Again, I agree... but if you see a guy on the big boeings using spoilers, they aren't a possible sign of lack of planning like they are on the CRJ or MD-88.
 
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