Stalking is bad, mm’kay

[DPApilot]

I heard that ramper is a Delta 330 FO now.

Gadha.

 

[ChasenSFO]

If true, he deserves to be put "on blast" but...damn that is one detailed call.

 

[Skåning]

*former FedEx pilot




(after this gets out)

 

[ERfly]

*former FedEx pilot




(after this gets out)

Is he senior to me?

/s

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

But how did he interview prep? Are there any interview modules on interstate stalking?

 

[ShortField]

Is he senior to me?

/s

/s…..kinda. But not really.

 

[Roger Roger]

Like getting told to hide behind the fuel truck because they don't want to look at us.

I literally thought of this story when I wrote that post

 

[Screaming_Emu]

I bet he’s the kind of person who leaves comments on porn

 

[MikeD]

I bet he’s the kind of person who leaves comments on porn

 

[Roger Roger]

I heard that ramper is a Delta 330 FO now.

Am I missing some influencer drama?

 

[Minuteman]

Am I missing some influencer drama?

That depends on if you've ever bought a Chive tshirt.

 

[Ian_J]

My post got deleted? Seriously? It was actually a decent post without anything negative.

Not at all. You had a good comment about communications in situations like this and I moved to a thread to discuss it.

 

[thevideographer]

What is a redcoat supposed to do about that?

 

[Screaming_Emu]

What is a redcoat supposed to do about that?

“You want me to take your picture together?”

 

[KLB]

Sat phone is the way to go. I’ve used it for so many reasons; order a pizza to the FBO, make a CBP arrival notice, call the D.O. to maintain operational control, and security issues. Everything on VHF is monitored somewhere and transcribed to a blog. Shoot, you don’t even use names with the radio at certain FBOs because their frequencies are monitored by paparazzi.

“20 minutes out, overnight, service the lav, dropping off two, there should be a black Tesla for Taylor…”. Try that in Nashville or Kansas City today and you’d have every Swiftie from three states away there hoping to catch a glimpse of T Swift but instead they’d get to see a dude that runs this website.

I use contact messaging on Datalink like it's going out of style. I am not a fan of FBO unicom. Most pilots want to contact FBO's descending through 10,000ft. If you really think about sterile cockpit (for those who practice it)....wouldn't hopping off primary comms to secondary comms to make a notice of arrival be "non-essential" communications? I usually send a contact message via datalink about an hour out. That gives me a good 30 minutes to sort out "why the driver hasn't arrived", "the catering isn't there", "passengers at wrong fbo", and etc...

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I’d definitely use an sat-phone (as installed) instead of yapping on VHF for something like this. Or — I know it’s not encrypted but it’s a little more non-trivial to eavesdrop upon — I’d want to use ACARS instead.

(Actually I am sort of surprised given our WiFi equipage that we don’t have some way to use that to talk more securely/encrypted to the ground.)

Whatever. At least they didn’t call in fatigued over VHF.

 

[Wardogg]

I use contact messaging on Datalink like it's going out of style. I am not a fan of FBO unicom. Most pilots want to contact FBO's descending through 10,000ft. If you really think about sterile cockpit (for those who practice it)....wouldn't hopping off primary comms to secondary comms to make a notice of arrival be "non-essential" communications? I usually send a contact message via datalink about an hour out. That gives me a good 30 minutes to sort out "why the driver hasn't arrived", "the catering isn't there", "passengers at wrong fbo", and etc...

Not all of us fly gulfstreams with datalink. It’s not hard to give the PF #1 for a second while the PM grabs #2 and gets a hold of the FBO 15 min out.

 

[CFI A&P]

I use contact messaging on Datalink like it's going out of style. I am not a fan of FBO unicom. Most pilots want to contact FBO's descending through 10,000ft. If you really think about sterile cockpit (for those who practice it)....wouldn't hopping off primary comms to secondary comms to make a notice of arrival be "non-essential" communications? I usually send a contact message via datalink about an hour out. That gives me a good 30 minutes to sort out "why the driver hasn't arrived", "the catering isn't there", "passengers at wrong fbo", and etc...

That is also a good tool. Some operators even have a standardized tool through their app/ employee portal that’ll send an email to the FBO with arrival info and also saves having that info send over voice.

 

[KLB]

Not all of us fly gulfstreams with datalink. It’s not hard to give the PF #1 for a second while the PM grabs #2 and gets a hold of the FBO 15 min out.

I don't fly a Gulfstream though! If you can get datalink weather, you can likely send a datalink message. I have always been a big fan of both pilots being locked in on their essential flying duties below 10k because that's when most of pilot deviations likely occur. It's a reason why most operators require a sterile flightdeck 10k and below. But this is just my opinion and howcI operate. I'm not saying that how others operate is wrong.

 

[KLB]

That is also a good tool. Some operators even have a standardized tool through their app/ employee portal that’ll send an email to the FBO with arrival info and also saves having that info send over voice.

The best operators do this for their flight crews! That is the absolute best!