HAZARDOUS attitudes at REGIONALS

[knewhigher]

These posts are only getting better and better!

 

[lookin4better]

wow ......

 

[Baronman]

Get home power? Ok...I'll fly 9 knots faster, ride the red line and have to jack with the power every two seconds to avoid overspeeding...

Only to not have a gate when I get to the terminal..Followed by waiting for the employee bus, having lots of traffic, getting stuck in construction and at lights along the way home etc..

Maybe I'm in the minority but I fly the plane the same way on the last leg. Getting on the ground 1 or 2 minutes sooner isn't going to change jack. There's way too much other stuff out there that will slow up my trip home.

 

[BoilerUP]

Get home power? Ok...I'll fly 9 knots faster, ride the red line and have to jack with the power every two seconds to avoid overspeeding...

Only to not have a gate when I get to the terminal..Followed by waiting for the employee bus, having lots of traffic, getting stuck in construction and at lights along the way home etc..

Maybe I'm in the minority but I fly the plane the same way on the last leg. Getting on the ground 1 or 2 minutes sooner isn't going to change jack. There's way too much other stuff out there that will slow up my trip home.

You obviously don't commute.

 

[XJohXJ]

If one pilot commutes and the other one doesn't, then the commuter gets to fly the last leg. Very simple, very easy.

On another note, just when I was ready to give up on FI, the poo poo thread and the pee pee thread come along, and now it's fun again. Keep up the good work!

 

[dav8or]

Gohomeitis

Take of brief: If we lose an engine after V1 we will run the appropriate check list and continue on a heading to land at the nearest suitable airport.

Definition of nearest suitable airport: the one where my truck is parked.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Lot of good response material on this thread and I will definitely include it in my powerpoint presentation. It's a shame so many find humor in my plight. How are you going to feel next time you fly home and the captain of your regional is being impulsive? Maybe he decides to land in the wrong direction of forgets to put full flaps down, I don't know, but these are threats and I will help admonish them. Well, not just me, but everyone helping, especially my friend. Here are some other things I was thinking about too. About the attitude of resignation. I don't know what to say about this one. Maybe flying with a bad FO and you just resign that the landings are going to be bad? It'd kind of be like marrying Rhea Pearlman, in that you accept your partner for who they are knowing that the landing or lay is going to be terrible. Maybe in my presentation I'll even have a little picture of her and photoshop a pilot hat on her LOL I don't know, I'm just kidding guys. But back on point, I was talking to a friend at a big regional and he was telling me how a lot of the time a captain might not even call for a checklist and just assumes you'll do stuff. I don't know but that deifinitely is an attitude of invincibility, kind of like saying, "I don't know if it's done but I'll still be able to land the plane." My friend said sometimes the cargo fan isn't put on. Come on guys, you don't want that to cause damage or crash a plane. I'm reaching out to you because this is where careers start and I want to nip probs before they grow. I'll be back on later to collect info.

You gave yourself away as having absolutely no idea what you are talking about. If I am flying with a bad FO, I don't have to put up with his bad landings, he gets to work the radios and run checklists. That is about it.

 

[EmeliaE]

I don't usually post on here........But this is without a doubt the funniest thing I have ever read anywhere!!!!

Seriously, I can't stop laughing!!!!!!

Yep, Captain Van Zentan was also known to have 'laughed off' any comments made by his crew members and in fact he was known to make fun of those pilots who would bring up concerns about safety and even told few of his fellow pilots that they were too coward to be pilots.

Just in case if you don't know who Captain Van Zentan was, do Google March 27, 1977, Tenerife.

If this doesn't stop your laugh, I can sure send you few more examples. You sure seem like the one who would get someone killed; your attitude about this kind of behavior is quite apparent.

At my airline, one captain decided to fly on the front side of the TS and one flight attendant almost fell over a seated passenger. This flight attendant did let the captain know her feelings and even called her bosses. She didn't let that go and the company pulled the 'flight track' with RADAR overlay and suspended the captain without pay for a week.

I'm sure there are few on this board who know about this captain, please do post name if you wish. It would sure make this idiot laugh a little bit more.

 

[414Flyer]

Yeah but the problem lies if you are flying it like you stole it, and then the captain goes to the lav? You will end up logging less turbine PIC time then when you are up there alone while he is taking a dump. Obviously it would not apply for a woman captain because women do not take dumps, at least the attractive ones.


I swear, airlines must have some way to remove peoples sense of humor in training, or else their interview process looks for those without it.

I really think we have the second coming of Jimbo!!!

 

[Ezralite]

Too stupid to get into Riddle?? Is that possible??

In theory it is possible for someone to be too stupid to get into Riddle. However, such a person has not yet been found in nature. It would take scientists years to blend the DNA of the world's stupidest people, produce an ultra-stupid brother and sister, have the brother impregnate the sister, and the resulting child might, MIGHT be too stupid to get into Riddle.