Amazing Story, Still Baffling

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SmitteyB

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Ok- you airline guys will love this one.

So here I am deadheading from Charlottesville, VA to Binghamton, NY on United Express operated by Colgan Air. I had been away from base (Ithaca) for 5 days, TDY. Good no problem, but ineviteably I was ready to get home because I had the early show in Ithaca this morning.

I get to Dulles and decide to get something to eat. I go to "Five Guys" and get a burger and fries (not bad food BTW) in the A concourse. I order my food, pay for my selection and wait for my entree. While waiting I notice a guy who is wearing a leather flight jacket with 4 stripes talking on his blue-tooth headset holding a backpack looking like a complete idiot. Well my first assumption proved to be true.

As I'm standing there, minding my own business this guy says to the call on the other end of his conversation "I've gotta go, I've just gotta talk to someone". He comes over to me with his Purdy Neat bag and leather jacket and says to me...

UNAMED •: "Colgan, huh?"

If you've seen Frank Caliendo's Bush impersonation, thats the kind of faces this guy was making while he was talking.

ME: "Yeah, how are you doing?"

UNAMED •: "Pretty good, not flying a puddle jumper. Seriously though, don't you think it's time you got in a modern day airplane?"

ME: "You'd be surprised, the Saab can do just about as much as an RJ, it's a great machine"

UNAMED •: "Oh yea? You've gotta be kidding me dude. Maybe you should go to your MEC and demand...Oh wait you're pilot group rejected a union, huh?"

ME: "Well we didn't reject it, not enough people voted for it"

UNAMED •: "Man theres no feeling like that of having a union covering your "butt" (explitive). Ive got to go man, good luck in your prop!"

ME: "Okay, see ya dude"

As he walked away the wind caught his crew badge and turned it around.


YEP, YOU GUESSED IT. A GOJET CAPTAIN.

I was disgusted with myself for even being seen with him. Needless to say- these guys deserve the treatment they get.
 
Wow.

Kind of like the E-175 driver that asked my friend (CRJ driver) when he was going to fly a real airplane.

What is with these people?!
 
wow, props to you for not just throwing down and beating the • out of the guy right there. Sorta what i feel like after reading that.
 
jtrain609 said:
Was that a republic or a NewCo E-Jet driver?
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AirShuttleRepublichataquatronobototron. The Captain was a great guy evidently - asked the new FO "why the HELL did you just say that?!"

Props to my friends there. We all have people like this... BLEH!
 
Geesh.... what a toolbag.

I'm flying the RJ...but whoop de freakin do....what difference does it make?

Theres alot of good airplanes out there, and plently of them i would like to fly. Each of them is great in their own way.
Just today while waiting in line for T/O in LGA, i noticed the Dash 8's, the SAAB's...etc. and i thought in each way- i'd like to fly them too.

Makes me kinda miss my corporate days when i was flying the King Air's and Cessna Conquest....it was alot of fun, and i'd be more than happy to do it again.
In the past year, i've had a few occasions to fly a piston single-and each and every time it was fun in its own way.
 
Sort of reminds me of something that happened to me a couple months back...I ran into a guy from high school who I was never friends with, who asked me why i'm flying a King Air and not flying a real plane yet? :confused::whatever:

Long Story short, the guy went to Annapolis, and every time I saw him throughout college, all I heard was tailhook this, tailhook that...I'm gonna fly hornets......He ended up in the E-6b...Not saying there is anything wrong with the E-6b what so ever, but for a guy who would have taken anything that would have allowed him to fly off a boat, it made me chuckle to think, he prolly didn't do too hot during flight school to end up in one of the few land bases naval aircraft.
 
I've ran into some RJ pilots who do have an attitude problem. I've ran into some captains who talked as if their plane was the best jet in the world and they tell me they would never fly a 1900, and others who would simply turn their face when I say Hi and nod. It's rare to see that kind of attitude, but every now and then you run into idiots. I don't really get it, this industry is too small to be like that. Better to take the high road and be friendly to everyone, being nice gets you much farther in life. Besides, when your mean people tend to remember you, who knows...maybe one day that same fellow will ask you for a jumpseat ride.
 
Snuggle said:
I've ran into some RJ pilots who do have an attitude problem. I've ran into some captains who talked as if their plane was the best jet in the world and they tell me they would never fly a 1900, and others who would simply turn their face when I say Hi and nod. It's rare to see that kind of attitude, but every now and then you run into idiots. I don't really get it, this industry is too small to be like that. Better to take the high road and be friendly to everyone, being nice gets you much farther in life. Besides, when your mean people tend to remember you, who knows...maybe one day that same fellow will ask you for a jumpseat ride.
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Absolutely true - I agree with you 100% percent. I've also run into some (very rare, just like your experience) TP drivers that have called me an idiot for going to a jet operator with a "long upgrade" and how they'll be at the majors well before me. Might be true, but what the heck! TO EACH HIS OWN. Wayyyy too small of an industry to have such condescending attitudes.
 
Great PR for HoJet. Sorry, GoJet. That was a typo, the G and the H are spaced so closely together.
 
Stupid.

Who gives a rat's ass about what airplane you fly? It's a job, not a pissing contest.

If you want to get in a pissing contest with anyone about a job, you've got some issues.
 
jets hire under 400 hours, props hire under 400 hours....everyone sucks, whats the difference?

ill be flying a confused turboprop that thinks its a jet. makes me no different than the js31 guy to the e175 guy
 
Flysher said:
wow, props to you for not just throwing down and beating the • out of the guy right there. Sorta what i feel like after reading that.
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Nah... just gales of hysterical laughter, followed by a LOUD "GOOD GRIEF you're a tool...."
 
Good grief, homeboy needs to catch a clue. What if I walked into the room and say, "uhh, howdy there Sparky! You mean I need as much seperation behind a Cessna 172 than I do your "real jet"? When ya gonna get a heavy behind your callsign?" Then a British Air 747-400 driver taps me on the shoulder...

There's always someone flying something bigger, faster, for more money and better work rules. I'd love to be there the moment reality hits cap'n fabulous squaw in the head.
 
Doug Taylor said:
There's always someone flying something bigger, faster, for more money and better work rules. I'd love to be there the moment reality hits cap'n fabulous squaw in the head.
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This is a great point. I'd like to add that there will always be someone younger than you that's more senior as well. If you let the above effect your daily psyche, you're not going to fare well in this industry. The key is making your own niche. Every at this level should be able to fly an aircraft. It's the other things you do that make you a human being, inside and outside of work.
 
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