Regional hiring confusion, how to get the foot in the door?
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I think my record was 17 legs with none of the above.
desertdog71
Girthy Member
Try 10-12 legs narrating tours, single pilot, single piston, 12000 ft DA, and 100 plus degrees. No AC and endless lines of unshaven, smelly Euro chicks tucking squirrels under their arms.
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surreal1221
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TexasFlyer said:
Good luck!
When is your XJT interview? Shoot me a PM when you'll be in town. All I gotta do is take the elevator to the 7th instead of the 4th floor to say Yo! Hire this one! lol
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Try that many legs and having to hand load and unload about 80000 pounds. That is exhausting.
desertdog71
Girthy Member
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
No thanks. That sounds like actual work, and we all know what pilots think about that.
p.s., I like packs. I don't really care about the engine starting implications of GPU or battery starts in the Brasilia, but if I can't run the packs, I really start to moan and groan - and the people like it even less than I do. Plus GPU starting with this airplane is sort of cluster-you-know-y.
Also also, I do feel like I've missed something by not flying a forehead, but I'm not about to give up the Brozilla to do it...
TexasFlyer
Living the Dream (well at least trying to)
Long time no talk my friend. Hope all is well with you. I will be there July 15th.
Screaming_Emu
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There was a flight attendant. Some dude with excessive back hair.
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
I'm not a regional guy now, but I was. 25 years is plenty of time to get on somewhere solid; don't just limit yourself to the regionals. Get your time, move on.
Lots of people are really down about 121 (and I certainly understand), but I personally really like my job. This job is dead easy. I show up, walk around and make sure nothing big fell off the jet, hop in, pretend I know which buttons to press, talk on the radio, fly sometimes. My chief pilot couldn't pick me out of a lineup if he tried. The money is good (and being a first year guy here, will only get better), the schedule works for me. When I'm off, I'm off. When I'm at work, the rules under which I'm expected to work are clearly laid out in a contract. Screaming_Emu hit it better than I could.
It's not perfect, but it beats the crappy jobs I used to do outside of aviation. Best of luck.
Lots of people are really down about 121 (and I certainly understand), but I personally really like my job. This job is dead easy. I show up, walk around and make sure nothing big fell off the jet, hop in, pretend I know which buttons to press, talk on the radio, fly sometimes. My chief pilot couldn't pick me out of a lineup if he tried. The money is good (and being a first year guy here, will only get better), the schedule works for me. When I'm off, I'm off. When I'm at work, the rules under which I'm expected to work are clearly laid out in a contract. Screaming_Emu hit it better than I could.
It's not perfect, but it beats the crappy jobs I used to do outside of aviation. Best of luck.
brown1
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It's refreshing to see posts like this. A little glimmer for us guys still trying to make it. Good on you.
Screaming_Emu
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Yesterday in YUL I saw an Air Canada (Express?) B1900 getting its lav serviced. Thought of this comment.
Screaming_Emu
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About all the McPaper is good for. Yet I still pick one up every morning at a hotel because its free.
"Well, lets see what's going on." *2 mins later* "yup, not interested in any of this."
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
To be fair. That's a really long flight to be without a crapper. With my coffee intake I'd say my likeleyhood of having to make the walk of shame on that flight about 20%.
Agreed.
You know why Sully had to walk up and down the aisle twice?
He was looking for a free newspaper.
Nice!
Hammertime
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Around C5 there is a legend from the B1900 days that an FO *ahem* dirtied his drawers, and was told by his (senior) captain to "tuck your pants into your socks and walk into that terminal like a man."