757 A/T failure

[///AMG]

The 121 job is boring as crap, as far as flying jobs go. But, that’s what it should be. It shouldn’t be exciting, in the way we know excitement. That kind of excitement gets pax worried, so to the extent it can be avoided, all the better.

The other pilots are fine to fly with, for the most part. Cool stuff is hearing the full, first hand stories, on things like how a simple thought of making approaches into JNU easier, became an idea, to an individual assignment along with a couple other pilots, to an in-house TERPS design, to an operational test and evaluation, to a certification, to Delta Air Lines trying to steal it for themselves, to the beginning of an individual company in order to design these and more cool avionics to sell to industry, to where things are now. That kind of history talk from the guy(s) who lived it from start to finish, is worth its weight in gold. Something one can’t get from anywhere or anyone else.

Which is also fun, since you are living knee deep in our old old guys. I agree, it should be chill, and nothing should be exciting if you are doing it right. There is literally nothing interesting about SEA-DFW unless you really go out of your way. Side note, I'm thinking about making a channel where I just endlessly mock these idiotic 20-30 yr old new guys who think they need to have a channel where they show you "First flight on the A330 to FRANCE!!!!" I think there must be in excess of 1000 such channels now. I can't imagine being that desperate for attention.

 

[Rosstafari]

?

I’m just giving you a hard time because of Evergreen. Don’t sweat it.

 

[bimmerphile]

Which is also fun, since you are living knee deep in our old old guys. I agree, it should be chill, and nothing should be exciting if you are doing it right. There is literally nothing interesting about SEA-DFW unless you really go out of your way. Side note, I'm thinking about making a channel where I just endlessly mock these idiotic 20-30 yr old new guys who think they need to have a channel where they show you "First flight on the A330 to FRANCE!!!!" I think there must be in excess of 1000 such channels now. I can't imagine being that desperate for attention.

think of their perspective, though

if thats the most exciting intense thing to happen in your flying career, what’s that say about you? I feel bad for most influencers

 

[Kingairer]

I never thought I would but I turned into one of those guys for whom GA just seems like too much work and stress. I’ll freely admit my time in AK 135 seeing all the crazy ways • can go sideways probably influenced that. Maybe if I ever move back to the flatlands I could see something to hop around low and slow on a CAVU day. IFR in anything I could afford to own/rent? No thanks.

I had the same experience when I got back into GA flying during the COVID break. More work and stress than I do at work! Some flights were fun and I can appreciate the freedom feel @ChasenSFO was describing, but when I add in the expense of it all, right now its a no for me dawg.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

You’re wasting your time.

I know.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Some of it is definitely getting maudlin coming up on the 1 year anniversary of clocking out for the last time, as well as the commuting grind wearing at me. But that was well and truly the only fun adult job I’ve had. Air taxi was fun when it was fun but mostly it was the kind of fun you have when you and your coworkers are surviving crappy work conditions and perpetually doing dumb • and not dying. This has its moments but the best thing is the paycheck and making the most of layovers. The flying is fun too, but I’m having a real hard time adjusting to working with a different random weirdo every 4 days and forgetting the A’s name the second we set the brake. Coming from flying with the same 2-3 FOs and same med crews all the time. I miss showing up right at 7 on the first day of day shift, preflighting the jet, moving in for the 2 weeks, making myself an espresso and breakfast burrito, going to the morning brief, then launching for BFI. No PA at TOC, just go hot mic with the RNs and start discussing where we’re eating. Also miss picking up a breakfast burrito from Breeze Inn at 7 AM after flying all night and not really remembering the drive there and back, before passing out in a sleep room for a few hours.

…do they have one of those bases in, say, Bremerton?

I’m not looking but that honestly sounds like a hoot.