Commuter no more!!!

[ZapBrannigan]

After 7 months of commuting to PHX and DEN, I’m hanging up my commuter pants! Effective April 1st, I’m driving to work again as a Dallas based pilot!

Woooooohooooo!!

 

[ASpilot2be]

Congrats! It's a beautiful thing to drive to work.

 

[DE727UPS]

Congratz. Did you think it would take longer?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Congratz. Did you think it would take longer?

yes, I expected much longer.

 

[SurferLucas]

I’m on my last rotation as a commuter! It’s going to be a whole new world next month

 

[arkflyr]

Just saw that Zap! Congratulations!

 

[CFIT99]

Congrats sir…I’ll be DFW based starting April 1st also….after 12 years of commuting….finally

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Congrats sir…I’ll be DFW based starting April 1st also….after 12 years of commuting….finally

Sounds like a DFW meet and greet needs to happen

 

[Crockrocket94]

Your 1 timezone commute doesn't win the award for worst commute lol.

Congrats on getting the D.

 

[ClearedForOption]

After 7 months of commuting to PHX and DEN, I’m hanging up my commuter pants! Effective April 1st, I’m driving to work again as a Dallas based pilot!

Woooooohooooo!!

You should write the 121.5 guys so they can rescind that awful advice they gave you about not upgrading.

And congrats. Takes about 6 months or so for the commuter Stockholm Syndrome to wear off.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

They'd probably say that if I had just waited 7 months I'd have never had to commute in the first place.

 

[derg]

They'd probably say that if I had just waited 7 months I'd have never had to commute in the first place.

You generally upgrade just about the time you should upgrade.

Besides, you might be still waiting for Dallas, but now you've cut your teeth on some other bases, refreshed some dormant skills and when you get the super senior FO that starts out by trying to brief YOU about HIS expectations, you can have some fun with it!

 

[ClearedForOption]

They'd probably say that if I had just waited 7 months I'd have never had to commute in the first place.

I was just kidding on the square. I'm glad you didn't take their advice. As much as I enjoy that particular podcast, mostly because i'm always looking for good content, those two tend to deliver very hyper-focused on QOL awful career advice that doesn't take math, finances, or future seniority into account. Honestly, if I wasn't driving or on a (Severance-style) mental health walk I would have stopped what I was doing many times to write in to tell them that their advice to Pilot X was really really bad.

One of the interesting parts about not commuting/sitting in a crashpad on RSV (or between trips) is that all the random shows that I was letting stack up to watch... aren't going to get watched. I actually have to be more discerning about the junk media I imbibe vs. watching everything and/or anything to eat up those lonely hours on the road.

 

[Skåning]

What are you gonna do with all your free time?!

 

[roundout]

FO that starts out by trying to brief YOU about HIS expectations

Is

is that a thing?

 

[derg]

Is

is that a thing?

One guy thought it was, but it wasn't.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Dallas? Can’t wait to hear them stories.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Dallas? Can’t wait to hear them stories.

What stories?

 

[BravoHotel]

Congrats. I am in Dallas right meow for a couple more days.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Dallas? Can’t wait to hear them stories.

The Dall-ass crowd actually isn’t as bad as the Phoenix crowd. That’s where all if the weirdo kernels congregate.