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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
It takes a special kind of person who can talk into a camera by themselves and pretend the camera is a person. I couldn’t do it. Then there’s the editing involved, cleaning up the video, uploading,etc.

More power to these folks. But agreed, you can’t exactly be a normal guy doing this.


That said, I’ve seen a couple BigErn videos (no clue if he is the one being referenced), and he seems like a professional, friendly great individual.
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BigErn is a rare one who is normal. But still sus of him being a little weird for being a pilot influencer. He isn’t cringe though.
 
tcco94 said:
BigErn is a rare one who is normal. But still sus of him being a little weird for being a pilot influencer. He isn’t cringe though.
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He’s an Alaska guy, but Redwoodbusdriver is a good one too. I don’t know that he really falls under the “influencer” umbrella as much as just someone who makes their IG page public.
 
Yakob said:
Gross. But that's certainly not even close a majority opinion among airline pilots. In fact I suspect pilot influencers are pretty unrepresentative of pilots in general.
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I think there’s a “know your audience” component as well. Probably not a whole lot of legacy pilots sitting around following #v1life or whatever. 30 hour student pilots with that 1500 mounts looming in front of them is a different story.
 
There’s a difference among influencers. Someone like FlywithGarrett who is clearly only in it for himself with constant references to like, subscribe, and oh look at me and my worldly belongings.
 
derg said:
In a general sense, yes.

HOWEVER, there are regionals that hand out failures like rainbow fentanyl to toothless hillbillies.

Things that, at best, would be a debrief item where you sit there thinking "How the hell is this a checkride bust? This smells like the equivalent of a jealous boyfriend throwing acid on his girlfriend to make her unattractive to other men".
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Sure. Once. Maybe twice. But 4 times at the same place? It’s highly doubtful the same checkairman caused all 4 failures. And it’s even worse if it’s 4 times at 4 separate places. Then the excuse of “they were out to get me” goes out the door.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Sure. Once. Maybe twice. But 4 times at the same place? It’s highly doubtful the same checkairman caused all 4 failures. And it’s even worse if it’s 4 times at 4 separate places. Then the excuse of “they were out to get me” goes out the door.
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You're opining on an assumption about a situation which you probably know nothing about.
 
BEEF SUPREME said:
Telling him this is a total waste of time. He's just going to keep doing it.
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I've seen a person with a number of 121 failures come out with a very nice job opportunity, but when you sit down, consider the circumstances and look at the situation, over an undisclosed period of time, it's a lot different than what is apparent.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Oh you’re not letting go? Perhaps you should watch that movie.


I’d like to work at an airline where if I ever forgot to turn an APU on during boarding, that my fellow FO deadheading in the back would just approach the flight deck and ask - instead of going on the pilot forum and calling out both CA and FO by name for a hot plane and saying gee thanks!
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I feel like you should stop bringing this up. It’s a pretty poor defense considering it had zero to do with you.
 
derg said:
I've seen a person with a number of 121 failures come out with a very nice job opportunity, but when you sit down, consider the circumstances and look at the situation, over an undisclosed period of time, it's a lot different than what is apparent.
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When I was getting my CSEL and an errant x-wind had me land long and miss my landing point on my power off landing. The DPE told me a story I guess as an inspiration. He said that he once knew a guy who who had five failures in primary training. He said he's at Delta now. He said never give up, get back on the horse, lick your wounds and learn from your mistakes. Failure isn't fatal, but giving up is. I don't know if training failures in primary flight training are weighted the same as 121 failures. But I'd imagine the same thing that DPE told me also rings true.
 
roundout said:
Serious question since I’m, uh, trying to get in the mood - how do you coherently explain that in an interview setting? It’s been best practice for decades that you don’t blame the examiner, don’t whine that you were set up or that it was unfair, you own it and explain what you learned. Even if what you learned is that the game is sometimes rigged, you don’t say that in an interview. And 4 is certainly a mind-boggling number of 121 failures to still move upwards.
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That’s when you call Raven. They’ll hook you up!
 
derg said:
You're opining on an assumption about a situation which you probably know nothing about.
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That’s the typical pilot bro defense that exists in the industry. As stated prior, Colgan and Atlas crashes speak for themselves. I frankly don’t care what went on in their personal lives. 4 separate 121 airline failures? Bye Felicia! Go tell a Colgan crash victim, well it’s sad you lost a loved one, but CA was having a tough time in life. That is not going to fly (no pun intended).
 
derg said:
I've seen a person with a number of 121 failures come out with a very nice job opportunity, but when you sit down, consider the circumstances and look at the situation, over an undisclosed period of time, it's a lot different than what is apparent.
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Stop using logic and common sense. CC needs to be outraged about this!

Why is a guy that‘s 12 years into his retirement gig looking at aviation interview prep websites anyway? Probably looking for just such an anecdote to rage post about.
 
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mikecweb said:
Lol you sure seem to know alot about this stuff for someone that "doesn't have social media"
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I don’t have SM accounts. The stuff I mentioned I saw on YouTube. Once you watch something Aviation related, the front page seems to populate other aviation stuff. The algorithms at work.
 
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