Swayne coming to a 121 near you

Flew with a C/A today who got hired at OY to sit sidesaddle with 300 hours. Worked hard, upgraded to F/O, did that for a decade or so, upgraded to C/A. Nary a bump in his career, you might say. But he A) Slept in a middle coach seat going to Trashcanistan getting paid peanuts for ~15 years, B) knows his poop inside and out and C) is about as humble as you can imagine. You know what he had in the cockpit instead of a camera (it was a 91 ferry)? A bluetooth speaker so we could all rock out to Master of Puppets. That's how you do it, kids.

Edit: Moral: Be the guy you wanted to fly with, when it's your turn. That guy does not have a camera pointed at anyone, least of all himself.
Best caps to fly with are chill and listen to good music before push..
 
Flew with a C/A today who got hired at OY to sit sidesaddle with 300 hours. Worked hard, upgraded to F/O, did that for a decade or so, upgraded to C/A. Nary a bump in his career, you might say. But he A) Slept in a middle coach seat going to Trashcanistan getting paid peanuts for ~15 years, B) knows his poop inside and out and C) is about as humble as you can imagine. You know what he had in the cockpit instead of a camera (it was a 91 ferry)? A bluetooth speaker so we could all rock out to Master of Puppets. That's how you do it, kids.

Edit: Moral: Be the guy you wanted to fly with, when it's your turn. That guy does not have a camera pointed at anyone, least of all himself.
Best caps to fly with are chill and listen to good music before push..


Oh god. How do you justify exposing your FO involuntarily to music that YOU personally like during work hours? I had to google what ‘Master of Puppets’ is. What possibly makes you think that is the kind of music I would like to listen to?

Over a decade, I only had a couple CAs play music on a device they’d leave in the flight deck. One was an absolute rage of drums and screaming. I told him to please turn that crap off. He said oh you don’t like my choice of music, I said no. And he shut it.

“Best CAs listen to good music before pushback”

Define good music? What makes you think the type or band of music you like is good and something the FO will like?


I’ll tell you what the best music is when preparing for a flight..... silence from your Bluetooth device. When will some of these CAs learn that the cockpit isn’t really a place to subject your FOs to subjective crap like this?
 
Oh god. How do you justify exposing your FO involuntarily to music that YOU personally like during work hours? I had to google what ‘Master of Puppets’ is. What possibly makes you think that is the kind of music I would like to listen to?

Over a decade, I only had a couple CAs play music on a device they’d leave in the flight deck. One was an absolute rage of drums and screaming. I told him to please turn that crap off. He said oh you don’t like my choice of music, I said no. And he shut it.

“Best CAs listen to good music before pushback”

Define good music? What makes you think the type or band of music you like is good and something the FO will like?


I’ll tell you what the best music is when preparing for a flight..... silence from your Bluetooth device. When will some of these CAs learn that the cockpit isn’t really a place to subject your FOs to subjective crap like this?

Speechless.
 
I had to google what ‘Master of Puppets’ is.

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Oh god. How do you justify exposing your FO involuntarily to music that YOU personally like during work hours? I had to google what ‘Master of Puppets’ is. What possibly makes you think that is the kind of music I would like to listen to?

Over a decade, I only had a couple CAs play music on a device they’d leave in the flight deck. One was an absolute rage of drums and screaming. I told him to please turn that crap off. He said oh you don’t like my choice of music, I said no. And he shut it.

“Best CAs listen to good music before pushback”

Define good music? What makes you think the type or band of music you like is good and something the FO will like?


I’ll tell you what the best music is when preparing for a flight..... silence from your Bluetooth device. When will some of these CAs learn that the cockpit isn’t really a place to subject your FOs to subjective crap like this?
Agree, never been a fan of the music on in the cockpit.
 
Hahahahaha. Jesus Christ. Well, at least we know when you snap you'll have to use a knife since we've established that you're not sure which end the bullets come out of.

I bought a CZ75. Ammo is finally in, 2 weeks after ordering. Now gotta drive 128 miles roundtrip to go pick it up. And no, I won't snap. I now have a solution to anyone who plays their favored version of music in the flight deck: counter it full blast with Aqua's Barbie Girl.
 
“These are unprecedented times!”

Yup, I remember the last two “unprecedented times”.

Once when I was in college and United would basically hire a fresh college graduate if he had a 727 FE certificate. And another time where I was thinking “Holy cow, I’d be top 30% 737 captaiin in MCO and can almost hold Mad Dog captain in DFW and I’ve barely been here three years” on September 10, 2001.

This is all like the scene where, in “The Matrix” that Neo meets “The Architect” and is told “all of this has happened before” :)

I feel like this post is timeless, especially now.
 
Oh god. How do you justify exposing your FO involuntarily to music that YOU personally like during work hours? I had to google what ‘Master of Puppets’ is. What possibly makes you think that is the kind of music I would like to listen to?

Over a decade, I only had a couple CAs play music on a device they’d leave in the flight deck. One was an absolute rage of drums and screaming. I told him to please turn that crap off. He said oh you don’t like my choice of music, I said no. And he shut it.

“Best CAs listen to good music before pushback”

Define good music? What makes you think the type or band of music you like is good and something the FO will like?


I’ll tell you what the best music is when preparing for a flight..... silence from your Bluetooth device. When will some of these CAs learn that the cockpit isn’t really a place to subject your FOs to subjective crap like this?

I'm making this my signature.
 
Flew with a C/A today who got hired at OY to sit sidesaddle with 300 hours. Worked hard, upgraded to F/O, did that for a decade or so, upgraded to C/A. Nary a bump in his career, you might say. But he A) Slept in a middle coach seat going to Trashcanistan getting paid peanuts for ~15 years, B) knows his poop inside and out and C) is about as humble as you can imagine. You know what he had in the cockpit instead of a camera (it was a 91 ferry)? A bluetooth speaker so we could all rock out to Master of Puppets. That's how you do it, kids.

Edit: Moral: Be the guy you wanted to fly with, when it's your turn. That guy does not have a camera pointed at anyone, least of all himself.

Did you by chance land in ANC about 1600L yesterday?
 
I love old school Metallica, but yeah put me down for annoyed when a CA decides we're listening to his music during every preflight.

Yeah, that was His Astutenesses' weird supposition. *OF COURSE* the C/A ASKED us whether we wanted to listen to his music. You'd have to be autistic not to, or...

to assume that he didn't?

In any case, it being Master of Puppets, obviously we both enthusiastically agreed! No commies on THAT flight deck!
 
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