Autothrust Blue
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When the level of desperation matches the level of qualification be prepared to be called an (expletive) inspiration, or something like that.
This shawarma is really good though.
Ex-UAL pilot sues United for defamation
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This shawarma is really good though.
Skåning
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Ummm that's not a shawarma...
JDean3204
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Still bummed I never got to fly with you, heard you were a great check pilot on that Q
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I heard he buys you ceviche and cerveza on the road
///AMG
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A couple years later, I brought a dirty old, oil and fuel dripping F/A-18C to the 2015 HIO airshow. The Monday morning after, at maybe 0700, with a nice cold overcast and drizzle, I was starting up to go back to Fallon NV. I got the right motor online, then looked down and noticed the APU had shut down (light was out). I thought "weird" and then started to crossbleed the left motor. Thats accomplished by pushing the other throttle up to 80%ish and cranking said motor. I just about had it online when some ramp dude came running over having a conniption, his hands flailing for me to stop. Turns out I was parked in front of a hangar that had some sort of canvas doors that were *unbeknownst to me* being blown apart by my tailpipe. I dutifully shut down to figure out WTF he was on about. Turns out, that was the last time the air start valve would work on that plane. I tried in vain for another 30-45 mins to get a motor to crank high enough to start, but both sides would Peter out at about 5% N1, well below what I needed to actually get them running. Anyway, I finally climbed down, and there was a whole crowd of kids from the ATP school up there who had gathered around to see me leave. I told them "stay in school, don't do drugs". Hopefully they listened. They are probably my captains now
Your story and the timeline just reminded me of this. Epilogue, I spent a whole week waiting for our maintenance rescue det to fix the thing, which happened to be PDX "restaurant week". Slept on my buddies couch, and we watched the summer olympics each day before going on a bar crawl. His wife was a saint to let me stick around. Think I finally went home late that following Thursday or early on Friday. Some good deals are accidents
JDean3204
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A couple years later, I brought a dirty old, oil and fuel dripping F/A-18C to the 2015 HIO airshow. The Monday morning after, at maybe 0700, with a nice cold overcast and drizzle, I was starting up to go back to Fallon NV. I got the right motor online, then looked down and noticed the APU had shut down (light was out). I thought "weird" and then started to crossbleed the left motor. Thats accomplished by pushing the other throttle up to 80%ish and cranking said motor. I just about had it online when some ramp dude came running over having a conniption, his hands flailing for me to stop. Turns out I was parked in front of a hangar that had some sort of canvas doors that were *unbeknownst to me* being blown apart by my tailpipe. I dutifully shut down to figure out WTF he was on about. Turns out, that was the last time the air start valve would work on that plane. I tried in vain for another 30-45 mins to get a motor to crank high enough to start, but both sides would Peter out at about 5% N1, well below what I needed to actually get them running. Anyway, I finally climbed down, and there was a whole crowd of kids from the ATP school up there who had gathered around to see me leave. I told them "stay in school, don't do drugs". Hopefully they listened. They are probably my captains now
Student pilots have Ogasms everytime a fighter jet is near on the ramp. Even the employees that work the ramp at PDX, back when we were close to Atlantic. Everyone would take the golf cart to go get a close looksy, I was still scarred from being around them on the carrier too much
///AMG
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Student pilots have Ogasms everytime a fighter jet is near on the ramp. Even the employees that work the ramp at PDX, back when we were close to Atlantic. Everyone would take the golf cart to go get a close looksy, I was still scarred from being around them on the carrier too much
I bet they didn't dare or even contemplate getting as close to exhaust nozzles on a turning jet as you have
Hiboglossi
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That's still easier than it is to get hired at Spirit nowadays...
Autothrust Blue
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A good point.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Nah, I mean everybody.
CoffeeIcePapers
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Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Was pushed out of LUV one day and got a status message that we had to pull back into the gate to fix.
I’ve never seen so many adult age working people on the verge of completely losing their minds.
I think it’s gotten better now that our gates there aren’t common use anymore, but I pulled in once in a 717 and the jet bridge wasn’t working…
Had to wait 30 minutes for swa facility maintenance to show up, that was kind of awkward..
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Hiboglossi
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It's interesting how the perception of the pilot hiring climate still hasn't caught up with the current reality, even though it's been about a year since the doors of pilot hiring slammed almost completely shut in the aftermath Alaska 1282. I suppose it's because there are so many pilots at the legacies who normally never would have been given the time of day by their airlines but were in 2021-'23, but those days are gone, likely never to return.
I'm also not sure Frontier absolutely required TPIC in 2018, since I got a call from them that year without it. I didn't make it past the phone interview but I doubt that was because of my lack of TPIC since that would have been clear on my application.
It’s complex.
The airlines are ‘hiring”, but if you get a CJO today, at least at SouthernJets, it’s probably going to be ‘an extended period of time’ before you’re given an indoc date. Since SJI is hiring, UAL and AA continue to hire but those ‘extended period of time’ before starting indoc are even further out. But the second one of the three says “Ehh, we’re on pause”, they’ll other two will follow suit shortly thereafter.
But 2022 and 2023? Those days should be seen like the days when the major airlines would take out ads in Flying Magazine on if you had a commercial certificate to write.
The challenge is that by the time the academies and programs got running full speed, traditional starts were already way up which created a glut of sub-1000 hour pilots.
The airlines are ‘hiring”, but if you get a CJO today, at least at SouthernJets, it’s probably going to be ‘an extended period of time’ before you’re given an indoc date. Since SJI is hiring, UAL and AA continue to hire but those ‘extended period of time’ before starting indoc are even further out. But the second one of the three says “Ehh, we’re on pause”, they’ll other two will follow suit shortly thereafter.
But 2022 and 2023? Those days should be seen like the days when the major airlines would take out ads in Flying Magazine on if you had a commercial certificate to write.
The challenge is that by the time the academies and programs got running full speed, traditional starts were already way up which created a glut of sub-1000 hour pilots.
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
I'm just glad they were desperate enough, or something.
So all the myriad of flight schools I hear jamming unthr airspace between PHX and TUS, will begin to subside?
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Does this mean no more books by 27yo legacy captains telling the story of the challenges they overcome to get to their dream job?