Considering leaving the profession for good, could use advice

Roger Roger said:
Yah, not optimal to have the new guys getting 6 landings a month and all at the end of 6 hours of staring out the window, when we would like to be building proficiency.
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BobDDuck said:
Try getting 1 landing a month!
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I went 41 days from completion of OE to my first real flight. It went about how you might expect. If I’d been a 10 year veteran 121 pilot it might not have mattered. But I wasn’t. And I cringed over every CA having to deal with my inexperienced ass while I was trying to flatten that curve.

It’s better now but I will 100% own what staying at a regional for another 1000 hours would have bought me.

I think it’s SWA that builds a line for new hires immediately to get them flying and proficient. I’m a big fan of this idea.
 
killbilly said:
I went 41 days from completion of OE to my first real flight. It went about how you might expect. If I’d been a 10 year veteran 121 pilot it might not have mattered. But I wasn’t. And I cringed over every CA having to deal with my inexperienced ass while I was trying to flatten that curve.

It’s better now but I will 100% own what staying at a regional for another 1000 hours would have bought me.

I think it’s SWA that builds a line for new hires immediately to get them flying and proficient. I’m a big fan of this idea.
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seems like a good idea until they pull the trips out before the bid runs and the stuff you wanted to fly and could have held goes to a new hire

the better is having people call for consolidation trips. they get what they want and someone with seniority gets bought off and the time off
 
Maximilian_Jenius said:
You know I love the triple. But I think that I remember @Screaming_Emu say that 1500 hours wonders beware. Because Atlas initial is a tough transition from CFI to 747/777.
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Oh it is. It's a terrible training program. I hope it's getting better. I haven't seen many 1500 hour guys coming over lately, but there's a few. A lot of corporate guys lately.
 
Maximilian_Jenius said:
When's the last time you two were PF?
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Not asked but: I finally gave into the nagware pop-up (now temporarily bugging me about currency in two fleets, programming is fun) and got a landing in New Yawhk today. I think the last time before that was over 40 days ago; for various reasons the other pilots I was flying with needed to fly more than I did. It was fun, too. This thing is just absolutely frakking delightful to fly, with no bad habits noted. Makes me wish I did more of it, but working RP is fun too.

Speaking of. What @killbilly said above is pretty accurate too. Sheer experience grossly shortens the learning or re-learning curves, as applicable for the situation.

bimmerphile said:
the better is having people call for consolidation trips. they get what they want and someone with seniority gets bought off and the time off
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Those pilots should be preferentially assigned open time, if nothing else. (That’s in a book somewhere at Mormon West Airways Inc., too, and we called it the Minneapolis and Detroit rule when it was written by two very tired reserve CRJ captains [I was one of those who wrote it]).
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Not asked but: I finally gave into the nagware pop-up (now temporarily bugging me about currency in two fleets, programming is fun) and got a landing in New Yawhk today. I think the last time before that was over 40 days ago; for various reasons the other pilots I was flying with needed to fly more than I did. It was fun, too. This thing is just absolutely frakking delightful to fly, with no bad habits noted. Makes me wish I did more of it, but working RP is fun too.

Speaking of. What @killbilly said above is pretty accurate too. Sheer experience grossly shortens the learning or re-learning curves, as applicable for the situation.


Those pilots should be preferentially assigned open time, if nothing else. (That’s in a book somewhere at Mormon West Airways Inc., too, and we called it the Minneapolis and Detroit rule when it was written by two very tired reserve CRJ captains [I was one of those who wrote it]).
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Will you fly more on the 300?
 
killbilly said:
It’s better now but I will 100% own what staying at a regional for another 1000 hours would have bought me.

I think it’s SWA that builds a line for new hires immediately to get them flying and proficient. I’m a big fan of this idea.
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I still feel like you have a leg up going from the 145 to the 220. One of my old FOs went from the Lear where you flare at 10’ to the 76 at atlas getting like 1 landing a month. I just don’t know how you get the sight picture and muscle memory down with that transition.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Those exist, but Z does all kinds of things. From Euro hub-turns (which a lot of guys love, I don't see the attraction, myself) to week-long Asia trips, to Z-Mestic out and backs. It's the most varied fleet we have, AFAICT.
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Any day flying on the Z? The whale schedule I saw was not commuter friendly. 4 on 2 off 3 on 4 off.
 
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Haha I am a total idiot. For some reason I thought it was a field of "modeling" (in the Hansel & Derek Zoolander sense) that somehow involved the environment? I need to read better :)
 
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