Possible instructor layoffs?

challenger said:
I was actually was surprised, didn't see many Chinamen out the airport when I was there this weekend haha
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What the hell are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.......

:D
 
MikeD said:
What the hell are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.......

:D
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hehe, such a good movie
 
roundout said:
Are "full time" instructors really only getting 1 or 2 students? I don't know how you could put up enough hours to be full time with only 2 students, even if you rode them hard and put them away wet.
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I have 2 CFI buddies who are full time, one of them has 1 current student for the spring, the other has 2 new students and 1 finish up. Neither are too happy about not making the cash money lately ... From what they have said it seems like certain instructors are getting a lot of students others slim to no students. Why give someone 5 brand new 102/221/323 students when you could give a few to a CFI that has an open schedule and almost no students, that's what mystifies me about UND management. Seems like a good idea if you ask me.
 
I guess it makes sense to layoff a bunch of people being that UND pays fully for health insurance on all of the full-time grads.
 
MikeD said:
What the hell are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.......

:D
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Hahahaha I haven't seen that in a while. Spose I will have to watch the movie right now :beer:
 
Do the Chinese students grow their pinky nail out really long? Its really nasty when they grip the throttle and that long dirty nail is sticking out. I asked my student once about and he said "it makes things easier" Then i made him cut it off.
 
TwinsFanPilot said:
Do the Chinese students grow their pinky nail out really long? Its really nasty when they grip the throttle and that long dirty nail is sticking out. I asked my student once about and he said "it makes things easier" Then i made him cut it off.
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:rotfl:

What bugs me is sweaty hands all over the throttle in the Cessna so when I would take control during a botched landing I would be completely disgusted by the sweaty throttle at first then I think about why I took control in the first place.
 
An old student of mine never changed his sweatpants and sweater for two weeks straight. The garments were so dirty they looked like silk fabric waving freely in the wind, not to mention how much he wreaked by the end of week 2.
 
Roger said:
Rule 1 of aviation:

Management is scum.
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Ehh, I have mixed emotions about this sort of thing. I've only worked for one place where management was essentially scum, and even then, it was only scum by association to bigger scum. Everywhere else that I've worked has had ungodly good people and crews involved in almost all aspects of the job.

That said, management cares about one thing, and one thing only, money. If you keep that in mind, a lot of the decisions that non-pilot management makes become a little bit more clear. They want money, they're not going to jeopardize safety too much, because that would cause accidents and raise insurance rates. Management wants the level of safety to be just sketchy enough to maximize profits, but just good enough to prevent accidents. That's a balancing act. Many companies go too far towards the "unsafe" side of things, then they make short term gains but fail in the long term. Other companies may stay in business longer but not make nearly the same amount of money that is possible for them to make within the regulatory framework, and may go under after 20 years, and screw lifers.

ACE was a prime example of the middle ground, and they made scads of money. They flew in all weather, with pretty much full planes out of ANC every time, they also had back haul to boot, and they'd go and try the weather when almost everyone else wouldn't. They'd also go to all of the jacked up strips that no one else would take a beech 1900 into, but charge accordingly. They flew their skeleton crew (at least when I was there, I hear things are slower in the recession) of pilots at least 100hrs per month every month with few exceptions, and worked FOs 6 days a week on the low end of the seniority list. The maintenance was exceptional, but they certainly got their mileage out of their ships (with some of the 1900s having more than 50,000hrs on them). The training was great, but it didn't take 6 weeks, was all done in house, and weeded out about 25% of those in ground.
 
ppragman said:
Ehh, I have mixed emotions about this sort of thing. I've only worked for one place where management was essentially scum, and even then, it was only scum by association to bigger scum. Everywhere else that I've worked has had ungodly good people and crews involved in almost all aspects of the job.
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You've been fortunate.
 
AngelFuree said:
An old student of mine never changed his sweatpants and sweater for two weeks straight. The garments were so dirty they looked like silk fabric waving freely in the wind, not to mention how much he wreaked by the end of week 2.
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That's just nasty, but unfortunately not an uncommon sight in North Dakota.
 
av8or91 said:
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What bugs me is sweaty hands all over the throttle in the Cessna so when I would take control during a botched landing I would be completely disgusted by the sweaty throttle at first then I think about why I took control in the first place.
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I just woke up my roommate from laughing.

I'm glad they started giving away those wipes at ops. :clap:
 
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