1990's - "The Good 'Ol Days"

[BizPilot]

Didn't think I'd ever refer to the 1990's as the "Good 'ol Days".

Please share you best photo-reminisce of the 1990's.

Check out these classics!
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0183207/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0711802/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0160588/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1045550/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1045550/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0054545/M/

 

[satpak77]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1029033/L/

hows that for some memories

 

[The Drizzle]

you guys are gonna make me cry

 

[satpak77]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0000572/L/

how about that one? This was before the days of glass cockpit, auto-everything RJ's of today, flown by snot-nose Embry Riddle PFT crybabies who have never hand flown an ILS to mins in heavy rain, on analog gages, with PAX in the back.

 

[Huck]

I remember the nineties: beating doors in 1992, trying to find free-lance work with 120 former Eastern guys doing the same thing in BHM.

Richard Scrushy (of Healthsouth fame) had 4 jets and nobody on full-time. He had ~10 guys working part-time 5 days a week, no benefits. Some had kids.

I knew a guy flying a BE-200 solo for $40k a year. A retired Army guy undercut him and got the job for $30k and no benefits.

Nobody hired, other than SWA and Valujet, until about '96. When I started at ASA in '95 I had 1500TT, 500 turbine and was the least qualified in the class - there were two ex military guys.

My favorite memory: I was begging for a job at Trans-South (it was taking 2000 hours to get a C210 job) and met an ex F-4 guy. He was driving a courier truck, waiting on a flying slot to open up. He'd been driving that Chevy Luv for 7 months.

Yeah, I remember the nineties. As Kurt Vonnegut said - there are no good old days, just days.....

 

[xjlifer]

Flew this one many times

http://www.warbirdphotos.net/aviapix/NonMilitary/Commercial/Dornier/228/AF-01529.jpg

 

[jbDC9]

I remember the nineties: beating doors in 1992, trying to find free-lance work with 120 former Eastern guys doing the same thing in BHM.

Nobody hired, other than SWA and Valujet, until about '96. When I started at ASA in '95 I had 1500TT, 500 turbine and was the least qualified in the class - there were two ex military guys.

Yeah, I remember the nineties. As Kurt Vonnegut said - there are no good old days, just days.....

Yep, the good (?) old days... glad to see someone else here remembers the same stuff. The early '90s; back when you could barely get a 135 check hauling job with 2000 hrs; when it took 4-5000 hrs to get a BE-1900/J-31/E-110 FO job; when the E-120, SF-340, Dash 8 and ATR-42 were "heavy iron", not looked down upon as turboprop trash by a 900 hr TT kid in the right seat of an RJ... and an RJ? What's that? Going from C-172 CFI to right seat at a "commuter"? Nope, that didn't happen.

I know it's a whole new world now, the industry has changed completely... but it's kinda funny (or sad, actually) to hear some of the kids on here whining about how bad things are; they really have no idea...

 

[wms]

Clawing and scratching for students. Pumping gas for an FBO/charter operator for two years to finally fly right seat as a contract guy for two years until you earned full-time status. I remember a furloughed major pilot who was a former Gulf War F117 pilot applying for an FBO job to get a foot in the door. I was hoping I would get a job flying the Brasilia someday. I do have to say though, the future looked brighter then than now.

 

[xjlifer]

It certainly has changed...we had people walk out of interviews when told they would not be "guaranteed" a seat on the RJ. Kids that said "I deserve the jet cause I have 1000 hours with 150 multi" Maybe if every one had to get furloughed and watch their company go under ...be out of aviation for a few years ..work at a job they hate...start over at the bottom....o say three times...then some attitudes would be a tad different.

 

[HalinTexas]

Real men fly "Junkstreams."http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0445844&size=L&width=1024&height=698&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg_trarevp%20%3D%20%27Oevgvfu%20Nrebfcnpr%20Wrgfgernz%2031%2FFhcre%2031%27%29%20NAQ%20%28nveyvar%20YVXR%20%27Genaf%20Jbeyq%20Rkcerff%25%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=8