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EatSleepFly said:
Good point... I guess it depends on the training captain. Once in awhile if we had enough pilots I would do online training, but not very often. I didn't become a Be-99 TC until after I was a line pilot in the Metro. At the time we were usually short-staffed in the Metro, so in order for me to be able to do any training, I'd have to fly the Metro to someplace where there was also a 99 laying over to use. The run I usually bid was the old SLC-BIL run, which worked out perfect. Since they always had a couple of spares up there and it was a mx base anyways, if we broke a plane while training it wasn't a scramble to get a recovery like it was at regular outstations.
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Yup and the cooler was full on the way back. I still remember you breaking out duck tape to fix the pressuraztion on some junker metro.
 
JayAre said:
Yup and the cooler was full on the way back. I still remember you breaking out duck tape to fix the pressuraztion on some junker metro.
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I have no idea what you are talking about.... :cwm27::D


tinman said:
SOME junker metro? You mean ALL junker metro's?!:)
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Is that why T referred to the maintenance hangar as the "1900 museum?" I could look in my logbook and see how many times I had to fly a Metro on the Cedar City-St. George 1900 run... :D
 
tinman said:
SOME junker metro? You mean ALL junker metro's?!:)
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Wow. That's big talk coming from someone who thinks its cool to fly a SINGLE engine airplane for a living. What a bottom feeder. ;) Just kidding, I love my Tin Man, even if he did fly the cheesiest girly man plane at AMF.
 
JayAre said:
Yup and the cooler was full on the way back. I still remember you breaking out duck tape to fix the pressuraztion on some junker metro.
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Junker metro? You 1900 pilots think you're tough stuff flying your simple little airplanes.:D
 
scooter2525 said:
You metro pilots think your the bee's knees flying around in your leaking tubes. :bandit:
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That's what the duct tape is for. At least we were flying in Metros (even if it was plastered in orange stickers). The 1900 pilots seemed to spend most of their time flying 99's while their hangar queen was being attended to. They have such a fragile electrical system, I think an increase in sun spot activity 93,000,000 miles away could screw it up! :cwm27:
 
citabriapilot said:
Wow. That's big talk coming from someone who thinks its cool to fly a SINGLE engine airplane for a living. What a bottom feeder. ;) Just kidding, I love my Tin Man, even if he did fly the cheesiest girly man plane at AMF.
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I moved up!

It's easy to always have an extra metro when you have, what, 20 planes for 3 runs?! "Hey boss, one of the metros broke down!" says a pilot. "So" says boss, "that one was probably getting ready to be thrown away anyways, now go out to the south 40 and pick another from one of the 20 sitting out there!"
Now, take for example, the 1900 schedule- 3 1900's and 3 runs. You're enroute to SLC, at night, bad weather, you lose an engine(I also walked uphill both ways to school), and the only thing you can think of is "I'm sure I don't want to squawk this, because that means I'll be in a 99 tomorrow!"
That was the ONLY bad thing about getting into the 1900.;)
 
Hootie said:
- AMF really likes to throw crap to the wall and see what sticks 5 out of the 14 in my class ever made it through training and past Bob.
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Is a 65% washout rate typical? That does not sound very good. What are some of the reasons?

Also, are the aircraft equipped with GPS now?
 
Parkite said:
Also, are the aircraft equipped with GPS now?
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I'd wager only about 30% of the fleet. I wouldn't count on flying an aircraft equipped with one.

People wash out for a variety of reasons. Weak IFR skills and not being able to manage everything are the biggest reasons. Flying the chieftan can be easy, but flying the chieftan the way the company wants you to fly the chieftan poses more of a task.
 
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