Ameriflight

Cal Goat said:
Yep. I consider her a personal friend and whatever she lacks in flight experience she makes up for in professionalism and attitude.

Here's another thought to consider: How many people were up for that ACP position? How many applied? She obviously did something right to get selected to the job.

If I were in management at BUR I'd be more concerned about the madman managing the base in HWD (that's manager not ACP). I was privy to numerous moments of his insanity and total lack of professionalism.
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Dammit if you aren't making way too much sense right now.
 
Maurus said:
I come from a background where I taught Indian students to go zero to hero fairly quickly. As a result the program and contract they signed specified aircraft and costs. This caused the students to find themselves only being taught in a C-172(RG) and a BE-76. At that point it really is only two types. This is the pilot mill background that so many go through these days.

ATP is another example here. A vast majority of ATP locations only have a C-172 and PA-44. That is it. Considering they usually go on to teach at ATP they end up not seeing too much exposure to any other types of aircraft in the training environment.

I can understand someone coming from a background of FBO training and such getting to fly more types thinking it is weird. The whole zero to hero thing really hurts people from actually enjoying flying by trying out other types of aircraft during training.

I'm not doing this to disagree with you, I just don't find it interesting since the pilot market is actually flooded with people in that specific position.
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I don't think its weird. I think having a bunch of types in the logbook is the exception, not the rule. I have 40 types in my logbook, which means before AMF I had 36 in the logbok. That is a huge amount, and I would expect the majority would be much, much lower.
 
Cal Goat said:
How many people were up for that ACP position? How many applied? She obviously did something right to get selected to the job.
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Actually no one wanted the job. Including the person that was the "interim" ACP. That is likely the root cause to the growing powder keg down there.

You are otherwise spot on.
 
Maurus said:
Actually no one wanted the job. Including the person that was the "interim" ACP. That is likely the root cause to the growing powder keg down there.

You are otherwise spot on.
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I think adding to problem is that there is now three "bases". You have Dallas and now Lubbock as a mini-hub for Ameriflight. San Antonio is about the same as the Dallas base now too. So now there's three unrealistic unpleasant UPS base managers to deal with. It's gotten a lot better in Lubbock lately. The guy was even cordial and friendly last week. Time will tell. Should be leaving in a couple weeks though. Should :) Hopefully before someone loses it.
 
UAL747400 said:
I think adding to problem is that there is now three "bases". You have Dallas and now Lubbock as a mini-hub for Ameriflight. San Antonio is about the same as the Dallas base now too. So now there's three unrealistic unpleasant UPS base managers to deal with. It's gotten a lot better in Lubbock lately. The guy was even cordial and friendly last week. Time will tell. Should be leaving in a couple weeks though. Should :) Hopefully before someone loses it.
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Are they as bad as the Austin guy was? He would seriously freak out on you if you were 1 minute late. He did that to me. The driver was late. I made up time in the air. It is clearly my fault.
 
Maurus said:
Are they as bad as the Austin guy was? He would seriously freak out on you if you were 1 minute late. He did that to me. The driver was late. I made up time in the air. It is clearly my fault.
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In my opinion the ONLY time it's exclusively Ameriflight's fault is if there is a mechanical problem or a pilot showing up late. Pilots think differently though. haha No idea about the Austin guy. I personally don't have any issues with any of the UPS people yet. They annoy me a bit, but nothing beyond that. 3 pilots in particular are losing hair, going grey and contorting their faces into a permanent mad face it seems though. :)

In general, the guy in Lubbock just makes his loaders feel rushed, which results in the plane getting loaded very sloppily, sometimes enough that my paranoia about tipping over kicks in and we start over anyways. Personally, I haven't had any confrontation aside from the occasional, "hey, put your badge on the outer garment please" or "please don't use that door". A few of the other guys are actually having some pretty heated arguments.
 
The problem in TX is due to one thing, a severe lack of communication. No one in dispatch tells each other anything. Dispatch doesn't even know where all of the planes are even half of the time. There are plenty of people who are trying to communicate & make things better but dispatch & the base management never seem to get those emails/phone calls. But it's probably more that they did & just forgot, & are really good at denying that they ever received the emails/phone calls.

The ACP isn't the problem, from my point of view she's working hard to make things better. It's the rest of management that is the issue in TX.

The powder keg statement is pretty much spot on tho.
 
sounds about like business as usually for amflight... you guys who havent worked out of the SJU/BQN bases have no idea what a lack of communication is REALLY like! haha
 
SIUav8er said:
sounds about like business as usually for amflight... you guys who havent worked out of the SJU/BQN bases have no idea what a lack of communication is REALLY like! haha
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Oooo, I should pick your brain since I'm going down there soon.(BQN) Well, unless I get THAT phone call "Uhhhh, we need you to go to Cincy" :D
 
UAL747400 said:
Oooo, I should pick your brain since I'm going down there soon.(BQN) Well, unless I get THAT phone call "Uhhhh, we need you to go to Cincy" :D
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I've got family in BQN and have visited quite a bit. It's pretty nice if not a tad boring. Just remember that 60% of the girls on the beach that appear to be in their early to mid 20s are in fact not legal.
 
Is PR a pretty senior base? I've been eye-balling the Caribbean and Ameriflight for a while now, so this would be a pretty great gig I'd imagine.
 
LucasM said:
Is PR a pretty senior base? I've been eye-balling the Caribbean and Ameriflight for a while now, so this would be a pretty great gig I'd imagine.
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You'd think.
It's not for everybody, especially PR nationals that threaten to unionize or claim duty day violations.
 
I had the option of going there almost right out of PA31 indoc because nobody wanted it. If you want PR it isn't too hard to get.
 
Indeed, but I would do Aguadilla over San Juan based on what I've heard. Might not be accurate though. Fastest way to the Brasilia too if you want that.
 
UAL747400 said:
Indeed, but I would do Aguadilla over San Juan based on what I've heard. Might not be accurate though. Fastest way to the Brasilia too if you want that.
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Aguadilla is a much nicer place to live. San Juan has some pretty sketchy neighborhoods and ungodly amounts of traffic.
 
LucasM said:
Interesting. Tell me more about this?
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Nothing more to tell. AMF gained a foot hold in PR by buying a PR company. Instead of having mainlanders turning over down there every six months or a year they kept the previous PR pilots flying. PR was actually tough for mainlanders to get to. The PR guys tried to unionize and called the FAA about rest violations...then no more PR guys and the great white flood started.

You get on with AMF, you don't even say the word Union.
 
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