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[Trader J]

Ya then it was definitely the other guy. He's a real piece of work.

 

[PA31Driver]

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Originally Posted by Trader J
citabriapilot, If "that one guy" is who I think it is I flew with him last week. He told me he was on the 99 out of SLC. He is a captain here and I had to put him on my do not fly list. God help us all when a company is that desperate for captains that he can make it.

P.S. I may not be thinking of the same guy, but I hear he has a reputation at AMF!



No,no, no that "one guy" isn't me!!

We had two who left to go be Captains... I think I know you are talking about. The one I was referring to is high time and has a good head on his shoulders. Great guy all around.

Phew! Thanks for clearing that up Citabria. What did I tell you....Capt. E.G. made a name for himself already.

 

[Trader J]

PA31 Driver,

I have heard good things about you! I look forward to flying with you!

Yes E.G. has made a name for himself...it's not a good one.

 

[RefugePilot]

Also, there are a number of training captain on this thread who do more than a fair share of line flying. Some even downgraded in equipment due to pilot shortage and are taking peak directly in the backside.

Just because I think the part 91 training captain is one of the greatest opportunities, not so with the training captain position once you are online.

Being dual qualified gives you the opportunity to step down in planes, with the according pay cut, and take one for the team during times of need.

Also once you are online the training pay bonus goes away. You get paid time and a half for an 8 hour training day in which you will work 12 or more hours.

 

[DirtyBeech]

There's no downgrade in pay. Just in equipment, speed, altitude, and sense.

 

[Sevenout]

There's no downgrade in pay. Just in equipment, speed, altitude, and sense.

Or you could still be triple qualified like me and find yourself in a pa31 this morning wondering where the prop sync was, and wanting to feather the props on shutdown. The only thing that kept me goin was the metro pay, and yes, I did lose some of the little sense I still have left. Gotta love peak!

 

[RefugePilot]

Or you could still be triple qualified like me and find yourself in a pa31 this morning

So you were getting metro pay to fly a Jo'? Not too bad. I am willing to move to get into a Turbine but if they want to qualify me in a Metro, pay me Metro pay, I would fly the Cheiftain a little while longer. It would be nice to get paid the big bucks to fly a Jo'.

 

[frmrBUFFdrvr]

So you were getting metro pay to fly a Jo'? Not too bad. I am willing to move to get into a Turbine but if they want to qualify me in a Metro, pay me Metro pay, I would fly the Cheiftain a little while longer. It would be nice to get paid the big bucks to fly a Jo'.

You have to hold a metro line and fill in with a lower plane that you are also qualified in.

An example is the guy flying SJT/AUS. When he was first checked out in a metro, his scheduled run was still a 99. So if he flew the 99, he got 99 pay. If he flew the 227, he got metro pay. Then the run changed to a metro. So now he gets metro pay, even if we needed him to fly the 99.

 

[DZ BUM & EFS]

Hey any of you AMF in SLE or PDX remember "Will" and what ever happened to him.

 

[citabriapilot]

Will L.? There was a Will there when I flew the Jo' back in the summer/fall of 2005. He left for Skywest.

 

[DeathPencil]

or will d

 

[Hootie9750]

Why don't you post about something you know? Like renting Be-99's....

LOL!!!

 

[psysicx]

What do the Metro lines out of SLC look like? Jac wouldn't be bad in the winter.

 

[RefugePilot]

LOL!!!

So there is not a lot of respect for the FOs huh.

I thought it would be cool to get paid a little extra to babysit until I had the pleasure of flying with an FO the other day. I realize the single pilot thing has made me a loner, or at least I don't play well with others in the cockpit anymore.

Now I know next time I get in a cockpit with a pilot with less than 200 hours, I will give a lecture on cockpit sterility and use the word shutup more often. I will also insist on doing all the switholigy until I know he won't turn off comm 1 while on an approach.

It's easy money, but I missed the empty seat. The empty seat provided me better CRM than my FO. It doesn't help my 2 pilot flows training consisted of a few hours, many hundred hours of single pilot flying ago.

 

[time builder]

So there is not a lot of respect for the FOs huh.

LOL, I felt animosity from day one in ground school. But then once I got to know everyone, it turned out to be a great experience and a source of many referrals.

If you're a loner, nothing personal, you don't have to take an FO, especially if you think they're hazardous to your flight. On the other hand, I appreciate those who had patience with me and realized that there was more to me than the label FO or PFT.