Pilot Pete leaving Delta...

ChasenSFO said:
Wow.


LOL well to each their own. Like @Boris Badenov alluded to, so long as I'm not being put down in the process, I love to hear them even if they're hours long.
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Let's circle back and ask @Boris Badenov in about a year. I count exactly zero people that include that in what they enjoy about this career. And fwiw that won't carry you through the suck. You'll get there, your passion for this profession and if you have the drive and focus.
 
tcco94 said:
What's funny to me is people who won't apply to a LCC because they need to fly a heavy across the pond. Then go through 2 downturns at a regional and realize they will probably be staying for life. While said person at LCC clears 200k a year and getting great schedules.

I mean flying across the pond or flying a heavy sure is a dream. But wouldn't you rather be doing that in first class on your way to vacation with a very healthy bank account? That sounds like a better dream to me.
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I get bored after 2 and a half hours at cruise...give me the gin and lie flight bed in the back.
 
mikecweb said:
Dogfighting by yourself and flying as a crew to JFK at 4am are two very distinct skillsets. But being good at one doesn't make you good at the other. And the stories don't change that.
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Bingo.

If the new Top Gun doesn’t start in either the Atlanta or Memphis crew room, etc.

mikecweb said:
Let's circle back and ask @Boris Badenov in about a year. I count exactly zero people that include that in what they enjoy about this career. And fwiw that won't carry you through the suck. You'll get there, your passion for this profession and if you have the drive and focus.
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Yeah we just…don’t have a lot of the F-teen drivers here (a small benefit of being merely adequate, I suppose), and while I do enjoy a good ”there I was,” hearing it every _single_ time I strapped into the airplane would be arduous at best.

Not that I’m not interested in hearing them, necessarily, as some of them are quite good stories, but the other observation is the louder the MILbro chest thumping is, the less actual combat/etc. they’ve actually done, too.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Bingo.

If the new Top Gun doesn’t start in either the Atlanta or Memphis crew room, etc.


Yeah we just…don’t have a lot of the F-teen drivers here (a small benefit of being merely adequate, I suppose), and while I do enjoy a good ”there I was,” hearing it every _single_ time I strapped into the airplane would be arduous at best.

Not that I’m not interested in hearing them, necessarily, as some of them are quite good stories, but the other observation is the louder the MILbro chest thumping is, the less actual combat/etc. they’ve actually done, too.
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Honestly, in my entire career, I have never encountered that. I started my career at the big show when civilian pilots were still a relative novelty (within the last 10-15 at that point), and I'd fly with two other guys (3 man airplane) where if they were milbros, they'd launch off on who knew who in what squadron, and I was essentially ignored unless they needed the temperature adjusted. Which was perfectly fine.

BUT I wouldn't just chalk it to to being a milbro. I encountered the exact same scenario on other aircraft when the Captain was a "local" and so was the lead FA. It was all about where you went to high school, what neighborhood you grew up in, and what sports team your kid played on, etc. But unlike the mil guys, who could care less about you, the local people were sometimes genuinely angry that you commuted, which I found bizarre because the local area was famously inhospitable to folks from out of state.
 
Ayork62493 said:
I don’t want to come off as entitled, but like most.. I’ve busted my rear end to get where I am and while I’m grateful for the opportunities, sometimes it’s just rough to see.
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You're not entitled, you deserve it. I didn't get an interview at Spirit until my friend walked my resume in to a chief pilot. That definitely helps if you know someone.
 
Richman said:
Honestly, in my entire career, I have never encountered that. I started my career at the big show when civilian pilots were still a relative novelty (within the last 10-15 at that point), and I'd fly with two other guys (3 man airplane) where if they were milbros, they'd launch off on who knew who in what squadron, and I was essentially ignored unless they needed the temperature adjusted. Which was perfectly fine.

BUT I wouldn't just chalk it to to being a milbro. I encountered the exact same scenario on other aircraft when the Captain was a "local" and so was the lead FA. It was all about where you went to high school, what neighborhood you grew up in, and what sports team your kid played on, etc. But unlike the mil guys, who could care less about you, the local people were sometimes genuinely angry that you commuted, which I found bizarre because the local area was famously inhospitable to folks from out of state.
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I cant say that ive gotten war stories without asking for them either. Maybe its because I fly with older dudes who have been separated from that life for 20+ years? Maybe its because I havent flown with a 3man+ plus crew? The only time ive gotten caught in the middle is when we had a jumpseater who had common friends with the capt and it was yuck yuck all the way there, but that wouldnt have been any different if the jumpseater flew for the same "commuter" as someone else in the crew. Ive flown with plenty who are A-holes however :) and while anecdotally ive determined the ratio of A-holes to be higher with AF than Navy, there are very notable exceptions to both of those.
 
Not even 30, got a job at not one but two majors. That could be attributed to timing, networking and some luck, but I’m sure he has worked pretty hard to make it happen as well. I couldn’t live my life as public as this guy does, no way in heck. So some of the ridicule he gets comes with the territory, but credit to him for going where he truly wants to go imo.
 
CoffeeIcePapers said:
You're not entitled, you deserve it. I didn't get an interview at Spirit until my friend walked my resume in to a chief pilot. That definitely helps if you know someone.
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It really does have a way of crushing you.

Persistence and engagement are a thing here. A big thing actually, somewhat surprisingly. If you can go to a thing, go to a thing for us. I’m probably the one person they’ve taken who never made it to a job fair, but:

I talked to Nicole on the phone multiple times over the course of about a month; I couldn’t get to a job fair when they invited me, but I replied to the invite with a resume and explained how you just can’t drop trips ever at the Mormon Air Force Frozen Tundra Wing. Finally she scheduled me for a half hour or so of phone screen that turned into 45 min, and then invited me down to FLL for the actual interview. The rest is history, as it were.
 
JDean3204 said:
Not even 30, got a job at not one but two majors. That could be attributed to timing, networking and some luck, but I’m sure he has worked pretty hard to make it happen as well. I couldn’t live my life as public as this guy does, no way in heck. So some of the ridicule he gets comes with the territory, but credit to him for going where he truly wants to go imo.
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I mean, I low-order hope he’s ceaselessly hazed for it.
 
SteveC said:
So, I’ve not been the best at following this thread and it’s got me confused. Is PeePee being picked on for leaving one of the big three for another? Or for calling himself a Delta pilot when he was a regional sub-contractor? Or something else???
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Pete worked at Compass, then went to Delta, and is now leaving Delta for United.

I've flown him multiple times, and my experience is that Pete is a genuinely nice person and a good pilot.

I'm not sure what the deal with all the hate is.
 
SteveC said:
So, I’ve not been the best at following this thread and it’s got me confused. Is PeePee being picked on for leaving one of the big three for another? Or for calling himself a Delta pilot when he was a regional sub-contractor? Or something else???
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jtrain609 said:
Pete worked at Compass, then went to Delta, and is now leaving Delta for United.

I've flown him multiple times, and my experience is that Pete is a genuinely nice person and a good pilot.

I'm not sure what the deal with all the hate is.
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People are poking fun for two reasons. One, he was the star of the TV show "The Bachelor" for a season. Two, he's leaving one legacy for another.

All new-hire classes at Team Seggy give themselves a class name - Pete's new hire class already has a WhatsApp group named by just a drawing of a rose.

My personal take from being able to see the generally new-ish pilot circles there is he's just getting some good-natured ribbing.
 
Here's the thing. I have avoided The Bachelor a lot. But, I found myself seeing the end of the season Pete was on for reasons beyond my control. I thought he was a goof, like every reality show contestant including the 45 President of the United States.

But...that Hannah girl banged him in the windmill. And I think there was another situation where she banged him. And he came in third place out of three. AFTER the banging, she passed on him and took the two other guys to the final. I think this is the valid reason to haze or harass Pete. I mean, it's let's make a deal time and Monty Hall offered this girl Pete, a known sexual commodity, or what was behind curtain number 2 which could have been billy goats eating trash and she passed on Pete and took the chance. I mean, every girl in America be looking at that judging him I'd think.
 
What kinda banging? Actual filmed on live camera banging? Or the camera cuts away from the windmill and people assume the deed happened, and then continue to follow the rest of that scripted BS?
 
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