"The Academy"

[Cpt Oveur]

how long were you on the ATR?

 

[Sonny Crockett]

Sorting FACT from Fiction I am here to tell ya.....


Waayyyyy back in 1993 at ACA I was listening to a couple of F/O's talk when one of them said......

"Back at the Academy we were like brothers"

I asked the guy if he was an ex-USAFA grad? "NO" he replied! "I went to the THE Comair Aviation Academy" as if I should be impressed? What a tool.

That tool is now at Southwest, and the rest of the "Academy boys" are at UAL,NWA,DAL and CAL.

Nothing new here, someday they will grow up and grow out of the "Academy thing"

 

[Chuck Steak]

It must have hard to get accepted into such a prestigious program!

 

[say again]

It must have hard to get accepted into such a prestigious program!

Tell me about it. Getting that rejection letter was the saddest day of my life. If only I had a few more 10's of thousands of dollars......

 

[johnpeace]

It must be epiedemic.

The 2 biggest tools to work at the flight school with us were from 'the academy'.

DCA.

I thought it was a joke at first.

 

[mcjohn]

Tools maybe.. idiots definitely. About the cheapest you can get all the ratings minus ATP at those places is 60+ grand. Most come out closer to 100 grand though in high interest debt. Then they get to instruct for $10 an hour. Delta Connection Academy is a joke. It is nothing more than rating mill.

Folks, if you want to go get all your ratings at a rating mill... at the most do it at ATP and at the least do it at Sheble's. Going to DCA, Flight Safety, or Pan Am ab-initio is financial suicide.

[SIZE=-1]www.shebleaviation.com

Why that didn't turn into a clickable link.. I dunno.

Johnpeace, a large proportion of folks from those places tend to be financially complacent trust fund kids sent there to please their parents. Not all. But many. Might explain the 2 tools.
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[Amish RakeFight]

[SIZE=-1]Johnpeace, a large proportion of folks from those places tend to be financially complacent trust fund kids sent there to please their parents. Not all. But many. Might explain the 2 tools.[/SIZE]

I tend to dislike trust funders and their privileged/entitled attitudes. Not all, but most.

 

[Princedietrich]

I used to work for a guy at LUK who refered to his flight school as "the Academy." First time I heard him give that spiel to a potential mark... I mean customer (and he did it with a straight face), I had to leave the building in order to unleash the hilarious laughter that was about to escape.

In related news, I hear that the same guy is now in jail for fraud. Apparently he was stealing from the school and the customers in order to "finance the lifestyle enhancements of an exotic dancer."

If ya want to see something truly comedic, take one of those Embry-Ridiculous wunderkinds and put them in a freight dawg training program. Give them the profiles and procedures book, tell them that's the way to fly the plane to get the job done, and watch the hilarity ensue.

 

[RP170]

If ya want to see something truly comedic, take one of those Embry-Ridiculous wunderkinds and put them in a freight dawg training program. Give them the profiles and procedures book, tell them that's the way to fly the plane to get the job done, and watch the hilarity ensue.

Or take an old "freight dog" to an interview with a respectible company and watch him get laughed out of the building.

 

[joe_pilot]

Or take an old "freight dog" to an interview with a respectible company and watch him get laughed out of the building.

Not really