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NO! WE MUST DO SOMETHING RIGHT MEOW!1!1

TSA: “taps forehead” Can’t have these incidents if people just aren’t allowed on flight deck at all!

I’m Probably the only time I wish the ride was longer. I still had about 15 questions when we got to the terminal.

A little off topic, but last year I had an Uber ride to MEM from the hotel. Driver was a FedEx manager who’s sister dated him around that time. Probably the most interesting van ride I’ve ever had.

KCNI is only a 10 minute drive from my house. Interestingly, the guy that re-did my roof a couple years ago worked at S&S aviation at KCNI for a long time.

Nope, the system was activated by a red handle overhead. It uses a solid fuel rocket to pull the parachute assembly out and deploy the harness. There was a maximum deployment speed of 140 KIAS for the Gen 2/3 Cirri and I think 150 or 155 for the Gen 5. There was an accident that occurred in...

I’ve got 1300 hours in the SR-22 and I was really glad to have it as an option. Minimum deployment height was 500 AGL on the Gen 2/3/5s we had, so there’s still a small window where it’s not available after takeoff but it certainly increases peace of mind in a lot of situations.

YO! What up instasnapfacetiktok nayshh, it’s ya boii bout to fly this beeyotch into some power lines , but before you watch me kill myself, go ahead and smash that subscribe button for some more sweeeeet content. I hate this timeline. Get off my lawn.

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Seems like I finally made a correct decision regarding my career path. Only took like 13 years!

Bro, they’re trying to get to the secret alien weapons they’re testing on this thing before uncle kleetus finds it in his backyard.

I’ve got you beat. In my blimp days I blocked 12.5 from Hartford, CT to Frederick, MD. Averaged less than 22 knots over the ground the whole flight and had to refuel en route as well. At least they got their sweet sweet aerial golf TV coverage tho!1!1! No autopilot in these things either...

As someone who just started binging Invasion on Apple TV+ , I feel like I’m 100% qualified to say that it’s Aliens.

We don’t.

I was reading an AP article and they interviewed an ex NTSB investigator (who ironically was a professor for one of my brother’s classes at ERAU back in the day). The dude was trying to talk about accident “chains” and the investigation process. Like, come on man. This thing was clearly shot...

A lot of said elders are benefiting from Russian money.

Or, make sure you win. Prigozhin's fate was sealed the minute he called off his march on Moscow. Nothing short of killing Putin would have saved him.

At least now you’re getting it. It’s the 1% vs everybody else. Getting the peasants to fight among themselves is exactly what they want.

Pay now or pay later.

It really isn’t some huge downturn as much as it is a “regression to the mean.” FedEx massively over-hired during and after COVID. I guess they figured having peak-level volumes every month was going to last forever and (over)-hired to keep up. As the world started opening up again, freight...

Man, this sucks to read on so many levels and it makes me angry too. I wanted to fly the MD-11 before it’s gone forever. I wanted to stay flying purple cargo until the day I retire. But It seems like FedEx management is just a larger version of our own incompetent management team. I feel like...

ATR captain buddy of mine went straight from the ATR into the MD-11 at purple. Zero jet time before the MD as well. No issues.

There’s pure irony in those lyrics relating to CC just a couple of lines later. I licked the silver spoon Drank from the golden cup And smoked the finest green Ok maybe not the weed part but those first two are fairly accurate.

CC gonna stroke out when he learns I used to fly Cirrus SR-22s into ATL ALL THE TIME at my previous employer. Have several hundred landings in C-208s at EWR too. Oh the huge manatee!1!1!1

Now all he’s gotta do is finish IOE at SWA and go to DAL/UA. #Profit. Kidding. But also not really?

Don’t tell DeSantis. But seriously, it’s a feeder program with a guaranteed path to FedEx. Used to be you’d hit all of the requirements and get a guaranteed interview, but could still bomb the interview and not get on with Purple. They’ve made a couple of tweaks very recently to make it more...

Yeah, that's what it seems like. I e-mailed Delta's pilot hiring team just to make sure I didn't accidentally delete or empty it in my spam box. They confirmed it hasn't been sent yet, so hopefully soon. It's been about 5 weeks as of today since I received the top-tier e-mail. I don't mind...

Yeah, I think they start regular line mechanics at $17.00/hr. So basically 2 more dollars per hour than a Starbucks barista. I’m PRETTY certain wrenching on aircraft required more skill than making a nonfat soy americano.

It’s almost certainly the latter. If anything, FedEx is MUCH easier to work with than those from my own company. I’m at the other ATR Feeder, not Empire. Some days I have no idea how the operation continues to run. Mechanics quit almost as soon as they’re hired (that’s what happens when starting...

Crazy to see how fast a • tier management team can destroy an airline. Been at my feeder for years now, in the purple runway program for a couple of years. Had most of the boxes checked in the program as well. I feel bad for the captains over here that already are in the pool for FedEx...

This is the way? :)

Hey guys, I was wondering for those who’ve been through the process recently, what the average time from Delta’s “top-tier” email to actually receiving the assessment link? It’s been right around a month and still nothing. I know summer is the worst time for these things given how slammed...

Expendable hamburger meat for Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine?

Isn’t Southwest moving to their own internal process, kind of like United, instead of pilot Credentials? That’s what they keep telling me in their hiring emails they like to spam me with anyhow

That’s because corporate flying is an absolute safety cesspool. It doesn’t hold a candle to 121. Period. I’m 100% for any regulation that requires a large amount of experience prior to flying a large amount of paying customers. It’s also saving us from ourselves in a way. Requiring 1500 hours...

Dude, surely you see the idiocy of your comparison here. If you have to use an airline from a third world country to prove your point, you're most certainly stretching. AMERICAN 121 carriers are infinitely safer than any corporate operation. Period. The accident statistics bear this out pretty...

Come on man, you should know that if something CAN be abused, it absolutely WILL be abused. Remember back when the TSA implemented those milimeter-wave nudey scanners at airports nationwide? How many times were we assured that the photos couldn't be stored or used inappropriately. It wasn't more...

You’re confusing my point. I’m not saying it’s alien tech either. I am discrediting lazy analysis by people like you, and merely stating that we don’t know what it was, and that it bears further investigation. The pentagon wouldn’t be interested in this stuff it was just weather balloons and...

You're honestly comparing what was seen in the video to something like this? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnYd5Rr5tk This is intellectual bankruptcy, and why I can't take these ultra-skeptics seriously. These two things literally bear zero resemblance.

Enlighten us, genius.