Feel the adrenaline
- Thread starter mikecweb
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scooter2525
Very well Member
Surving the americolt crew car is the real rush.
A150K
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Things have changed in some bases....All the crew cars at ABQ outstations were newish Toyotas. Now PDX....I drove some real beaters there.
ahw01
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av8tr1
"Never tell me the odds!"
Every time I see a cheesy AirNet video, I get annoyed that it died before I had the time to work there.
Sounded like fun, in one of those "chitty and gritty but we love it" kind of ways.
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milleR
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Man, if Washka hadn't put me in a pool and 9K offered me a class date things might have been very different but who really knows. The Lear flight to the interview and facilities tour at 0400 during a sort had me SOLD lol. (The storm system that night was so strong the hotel didn't have power when we got there, but that didn't even dent the AirNet operation. Bad ass).
Can you even imagine a movie like that being made today? The whole thing gave me goose bumps (the good kind). Awesome.
milleR
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That was Craig Washka, he was in charge of pilot recruitment.
I don't know of any companies running similar ops nowadays
A guy that did part of my instrument ground training flew the Baron for them. I figured ops like AirNet were where all pilots cut their teeth in real jobs, at night during nasty weather in the NE. As bad as the pay was back then, I'd have taken a gig like that in a heartbeat
Guess that era is over
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Roger Roger
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Dude. Same. The icing on the cake was topping a thunderstorm in a Lear in the 40s between MEM (I think) and DAL. I knew what I wanted to do with my life after that flight. Got put in the pool then they furloughed 6 months later.
Inverted
mmmmmm wine
Stone Cold
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Right after CW at 3:04 or so was our red headed friend, yes.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
675 reindeer power gets me every time.
Cal Goat
Prestige Worldwide™
The money sounds nice and although I hear the old Lears are sporty, the cockpit is a sardine can. What was so great about it?
The company treated us well, we weren't as picky I guess too. We were like a fraternity. The Lear was incredibly fun to fly. Precision was championed and mediocrity wasn't accepted. There was a sense of mission and purpose. I'll never be as "current" as I was at Airnet.
A150K
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Wondering the same thing....I've seen them advertising on the orange site too.