Class Dates At Usa Jet Airlines

[General Lee]

I used to work at USAJet General. A very typical falcon run is something like this... depart YIP go to somewhere in Ontario, wait for a few hours for freight and customs etc. clear inbound at say, LIT. Head to ELP clear outbound for Chihuahua, unload, head back to ELP, customs again then off to the hotel. You'd stay on the border having fun for anywhere from 10 hours to 3 days. If you were lucky though the Canada part would get deleted and the pick-up would be somewhere in the midwest, and you only had to clear customs twice. I've had one trip to Portland, one to Seattle, one to Vegas and a few to California both LAX and SJO in 2 and a half years but generally the trips are from canada/midwest to texas border/mexico. There were also quite a few pick-up in midwest deliver to Ontario trips then back to YIP. Personally I'd rather go to Mexico and day than do trips like this seeing as the Canada trips still took all damm night and you only got 2-3 hours flight time. As far as day/night, its about 50/50. Unless of course all the flight followers are conspiring against you and you're stuck on the night shift for two months straight!

Interesting. I really had no idea about this side of the aviation business, since I flew for the commuters (pre-regional days) before going to DL. Thanks for the enlightenment. Sounds like the trips have some variety and can be interesting. I bet the Mexican food is good down there on the border.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[pilotyip]

We don't like our crews to eat on trips into Mexico, we have had cases of the trotts, and normally they are only there for a couple hours.

 

[Xfr8dog]

Yeah but border food is awesome! I miss Taco Palenque!

Oh and I have braved the food in Mexico a few times. I don't eat meat so my chances of getting some scary food are a bit smaller. Never any problems here....

 

[T-Gates]

I miss Taco Palenque!

Taco Palenque is the BOMB! Really the only thing to look foward to on a BRO/LRD layover....

 

[Xfr8dog]

Oh I disagree! Theres alot to look forward to in LRD. My absolute favorite layover.

 

[mnboyev]

Ahhh... The memories of Taco Palenque'..sp? Absolutely the best mexican food I've ever had ! The FBO filled up our jet and brought take out right to our cargo door! I highly recommend the Fajita Taco's....

USA was great to me ! Safe airplanes, good training, OK schedule (on demand), Great bunch of folks... I learned alot and had fun doing it. Way better than any commuter job. The Falcons were great !

 

[mnboyev]

Never made it to Boys Town... I ate the goat tacos across the border... not too bad.. Never got the Trotts.... I know a fella who got runny after indulging in Monterey.... I think he called it GERP.... ??

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!
Hi!

XFr8dog is right on about the N-S Midwestern corridor

Here are some more DA-20 trips:
LRD-ELP-ONT-ELP-BHM-BUQ(Salisbury, NC)-YIP
YIP-HOU-YIP-Montreal-Labrador-somewhere in E. Canada-Ottowa-YIP
PDX-PHX-MMCU(Chihuahua)-ELP
ELP-LAX-ELP-HRL
YIP-MEM-GSP-YIP
YIP-CYYZ (Toronto)-YIP-SLN-IPL (Imperial, CA)
YIP-PHL-IND-MCI
MCI-BFF-PDX-PUB-FTW
YIP-JFK-CYYZ-YIP
LAX-ELP-MMGL (Guadalajara)-DRT(Del Rio, TX)
SDF-SHV-MMMY(Monterey)-MMIO(Saltillo)-LRD-MQY(Smyrna, TN)-SDF
CFV(Coffeeville, KS)-LRD-MMIO-SHV-CYQG(Windsor)-CNB9(Barrie, ON)-DTW-YIP

The DC-9s do similar trips, but more often to bigger airports and less often to small ones (like Coffeeville).

Cliff
YIP
PS-I heard the next new class is this month.

 

[Xfr8dog]

Mmmmmm! Coffeeville!

 

[atpcliff]

Hi X8!

R U out of the sim yet? Howz training going?

Keep us posted! Some emails from far away places with adventures would be great!

CLiff
YIP