Plane down. New Smyrna, FL

That's some fine police work there. I took the time this evening to read the local news articles about it... this whole '500 hours and be competitive for airlines in the Far East' thing is unsettling. Maybe I'm just late to the party on that.
 
PFGiardino said:
this whole '500 hours and be competitive for airlines in the Far East' thing is unsettling
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Nope that's pretty much accurate. They are desperate over there. It's even worse on the rotor side. I might go over and spend a year building hours with students. My understanding is if you have a pulse and want to fly Helos you're in. And employers will pay for your training.
 
deadstick said:
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Because Cute Asian Pilot, this thread will go longer then that type rating lasted.

I want that hat btw.
 
deadstick said:
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Runincolorado said:
I read the same thing...but a quick search of the FAA Registry shows no type rating. It states the following:

Date of Issue: 4/14/2010
Certificate: COMMERCIAL PILOT Print
Ratings:
COMMERCIAL PILOT
AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
AIRPLANE MULTIENGINE LAND
INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE

Limits:
ENGLISH PROFICIENT.
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Pay attention boys and girls. She had a high altitude endorsement, NOT a 737 type. She most likely did it in a simulator.
 
RIP. I had conversations with her on facebook about two weeks ago-- she discussed with me about why she is trying to build hours this way. There is a lot more to the story beyond this flight itself. I believe it's the external pressure that contributed her to behave this way (talk about Asian airlines' discriminative hiring practice...) She shouldn't have been up there by herself.
 
Airman1985 said:
RIP. I had conversations with her on facebook about two weeks ago-- she discussed with me about why she is trying to build hours this way. There is a lot more to the story beyond this flight itself. I believe it's the external pressure that contributed her to behave this way (talk about Asian airlines' discriminative hiring practice...) She shouldn't have been up there by herself.
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I hate to say it, but if she had the certificates she had, she should have been fully capable of being up there by herself.
 
Going back to the comments about currency. If we know she had under 500hrs (about 420 I think was pointed out by someone) and she obtained her Commercial in 2010 (250hrs min for a min, yes, probably she had more than that as she had both ASEL and AMEL commercial ratings) we are looking at under 200hrs in 4 years and that is roughly 50hrs a year. The certificate in the photo above states "June 2013." Now, depending on what those 50hrs consisted of, and when they were actually obtained, can speak a lot more to currency vs just having the ratings and hours. So while she had the ratings to be up a lone, she very well may have been rusty enough that she should not have been up there alone.
 
Here is a story similar, about a different person than the deceased from this thread.

A couple of years ago I received a call from a young Asian woman looking for tailwheel instruction, she was looking for something different to do while she was attending a pilot mill school in FL. We did two flights, and she left. She didn't finish her endorsement. After a week or two I called a friend that was working at her school and asked what her story was. Turns out that after one of her unsatisfactory stage checks she asked if a particular sexual favor would change the outcome of her stage check. The check airman didn't accept the offer, and she didn't pass the stage check.

Two or so years later, I have seen her in the FBO and heard her on the radio. She's a CFI now. As much as I would like to believe that she received remedial training and progressed through the ratings, I'm not naive and have a good idea of what happened.
 
No one wants to mention the absolute DB with the "on guard" comment.

Couple years ago I was doing CLT to MEM or BNA. Guy comes on guard saying that he's got himself into IFR as a non rated pilot in mountainous terrain and cannot find an airport. He wasn't that eloquent in stating the problem but that was the jist. The first answer he got before ATC piped in? "Sir you are on guard check your frequency."

Absolutely infuriating.
 
hcaeborev said:
No one wants to mention the absolute DB with the "on guard" comment.

Couple years ago I was doing CLT to MEM or BNA. Guy comes on guard saying that he's got himself into IFR as a non rated pilot in mountainous terrain and cannot find an airport. He wasn't that eloquent in stating the problem but that was the jist. The first answer he got before ATC piped in? "Sir you are on guard check your frequency."

Absolutely infuriating.
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Guard is reserved for Delta pilots, and aircraft having actual emergencies.
 
CFI A&P said:
Here is a story similar, about a different person than the deceased from this thread.

A couple of years ago I received a call from a young Asian woman looking for tailwheel instruction, she was looking for something different to do while she was attending a pilot mill school in FL. We did two flights, and she left. She didn't finish her endorsement. After a week or two I called a friend that was working at her school and asked what her story was. Turns out that after one of her unsatisfactory stage checks she asked if a particular sexual favor would change the outcome of her stage check. The check airman didn't accept the offer, and she didn't pass the stage check.

Two or so years later, I have seen her in the FBO and heard her on the radio. She's a CFI now. As much as I would like to believe that she received remedial training and progressed through the ratings, I'm not naive and have a good idea of what happened.
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Are you trying to soften my views on safety? :)
 
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