Gonzo
Well-Known Member
Rant On
It has been a very interesting few months for me. I moved to a new plane so I have been flying with a lot of new captains and flight attendants. I have also been bidding different start/end days and times so I have found myself on the jumpseat a lot, both on my company and other regional airlines. My last year or so on the EMB I was kind of buddy biding with CAs and FAs, so for the most part I only flew with 4-5 CAs and the same number of FAs. Every once in a awhile I would get a "glad to see we are flying to together next month" from a CA or FA but I just took it as them being nice.
What I have been hearing from the CA I have been flying with and what I have seen sitting in the jumpseats makes me very scared to ride/put family on flights I am not flying or don't know the crew. I am not saying I am god gift to aviation, in fact if anyone knows me I am closer to hack then Yeager on the scale of piloting. That makes it even worse when my last few CA have thanked me for not being a d-bag and being a good FO (Being an FO at Eagle is the easiest job in the world you would have to work harder at being a bad FO then a good one). Based on what I have seen sitting in the jumpseat I believe it, is it really that hard to fly an airplane like a professional and act like a professional be it a CA or FO. If some of the guys I have seen care as much about how they acted and flew as they look, they would be great professional pilots. I am sure mainline has their share of unprofessional idiots but I haven't seen it to the level like I have heard and seen over the last few months.
Guys, I am asking you to speak up when you see things that aren't right. I have started to, I know nobody want to be that guy but we need to protect our profession. I don't care if people call me a rat or some guys don't want me in their jumpseat. If we want to get paid like professionals we need to act like professionals.
We are a little over a month away from the "ATP rule" yet I see and hear about the same problems we had with 300 hour pilots in the air. In fact a few CA have told me it is worse with the higher time pilots. So is it going to take another crash for the regional airlines to stop hiring log books and start hiring professional pilots.
rant off
Sorry guys it is something me and DPApilot have talked about a good bit and has been building the last few weeks.
It has been a very interesting few months for me. I moved to a new plane so I have been flying with a lot of new captains and flight attendants. I have also been bidding different start/end days and times so I have found myself on the jumpseat a lot, both on my company and other regional airlines. My last year or so on the EMB I was kind of buddy biding with CAs and FAs, so for the most part I only flew with 4-5 CAs and the same number of FAs. Every once in a awhile I would get a "glad to see we are flying to together next month" from a CA or FA but I just took it as them being nice.
What I have been hearing from the CA I have been flying with and what I have seen sitting in the jumpseats makes me very scared to ride/put family on flights I am not flying or don't know the crew. I am not saying I am god gift to aviation, in fact if anyone knows me I am closer to hack then Yeager on the scale of piloting. That makes it even worse when my last few CA have thanked me for not being a d-bag and being a good FO (Being an FO at Eagle is the easiest job in the world you would have to work harder at being a bad FO then a good one). Based on what I have seen sitting in the jumpseat I believe it, is it really that hard to fly an airplane like a professional and act like a professional be it a CA or FO. If some of the guys I have seen care as much about how they acted and flew as they look, they would be great professional pilots. I am sure mainline has their share of unprofessional idiots but I haven't seen it to the level like I have heard and seen over the last few months.
Guys, I am asking you to speak up when you see things that aren't right. I have started to, I know nobody want to be that guy but we need to protect our profession. I don't care if people call me a rat or some guys don't want me in their jumpseat. If we want to get paid like professionals we need to act like professionals.
We are a little over a month away from the "ATP rule" yet I see and hear about the same problems we had with 300 hour pilots in the air. In fact a few CA have told me it is worse with the higher time pilots. So is it going to take another crash for the regional airlines to stop hiring log books and start hiring professional pilots.
rant off
Sorry guys it is something me and DPApilot have talked about a good bit and has been building the last few weeks.
