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DruDown said:
You have other reasons to be embarrassed...

-Dru
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You should talk Mr. "I just moved out of mom's house and am now flying a big bad CL601." :D

You better come to Vegas...

-Neal
 
flying4food said:
I've been wondering about this for some time, and BAM!! here the thread is!! Well, I have to say it is the QX crj guys down in DEN. These guys walk around that terminal like their sh!t don't stink!! I'm the guy that is always exchanging a greeting with a fellow pilot. I'll give the nod to these guys or say hello, maybe try to make eye contact to say something, and what do you get in return?? A big fat nothing, most of the time they won't even look at you, let alone exchange a greeting!! What an arrogant group!! I guess I shouldn't say that about all of them, I've met 2 of them that where pleasent and would speak, but the other 95% seem to be stuck on themselves. I've asked a couple of other pilots I know at other outfits, and they seem to notice the same thing.

I've been out in PDX a lot, and I know those guys out west are pretty good, I've hitched a ride a lot and think they are pretty nice, but that group in DEN seem to be in their own little world!!!
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Gotta disagree with you.....I don't deal w/ the QX guys in DEN much, as they are in a different concourse, BUT, everytime I have hitched a ride they have been nothing but pleasant to deal with. Maybe I have just been lucky 40-50 times.
 
How about the guys still in school at Riddle? Good God, those guys are arrogant.

I had one guy tell me "They train us to be 747 Captains from the very first day". Oh, Ok there pal.
 
EMB170Pilot said:
go rent Best of Eddie Murphy Saturday Night Live and you will understand
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Too damn funny. Hard to believe he was only on SNL for one year.
 
"Today's word of the day is bastard. Can you use this word in a sentence? Cab drivers can!"

-- "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood" SNL Sketch


The stuff was gold!
 
ATRCAPT said:
I'm always amazed at how many new regional guys say, "I was hired DIRECTLY to the jet." Some people just don't get it, do they?
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True dat! DOUBLE TRUE!!!

When I was in training on a t-prop, there was one tool (CFI at a certain academy) that said he was waiting till they phased it out so he could bypass the t-prop. Of course that would only happen if he 'aced' his guaranteed interview:rolleyes:
 
Gulfstream 200 said:
ASE...No ASE

Big RJ...little RJ

who cares?

How can ANY regional pilot be cocky? - (check the paychecks fellas)

cocky?....wtf?...I'd be goddam embarassed!!!!



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Wow, you continue to patrol the regional threads to spew your garbage. It is great that you were able to get a start in this industry without ever having to make less than $100,000 a year. You are truely a wise and incredibly lucky person. But you are a tool.

Everybody makes choices in life. Money does not make a person happy. But it does seem to make you an idiot. "I make tons of money and you don't!" What are you, in third grade. Are you going to come on and also tell us that your dad can beat up my dad? Go away. Nobody cares about what you are selling.
 
Gulfstream 200 said:
ASE...No ASE

Big RJ...little RJ

who cares?

How can ANY regional pilot be cocky? - (check the paychecks fellas)

cocky?....wtf?...I'd be goddam embarassed!!!!



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I am quite certain that everyone you chauffeur in their jet would be equally embarassed to have your job and paycheck.
 
The way I look at it, pilots in corporate aviation got where they are one of three ways:

1) They got a break early on and was offered a top notch well paying corporate gig as a CFI. In that case, as fortunate as they may have been, they owe everything that they have to pure luck and just being in the right place at the right time. If the truth be known, had they not been so lucky they would probably be flying RJ's with the rest of us.

2) They started off making peanuts flying for some crappy corporate outfit and worked their way up.

3) They came from the military

So, which one describes you G200? Did you work for peanuts sitting in the right seat of whatever you could find to get your corporate experience? Or were you just in the right place at the right time and had everything given to you on a silver platter? Either way, you certainly aren't in a position to put down another group of pilots.
 
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Abbey said:
I am quite certain that everyone you chauffeur in their jet would be equally embarassed to have your job and paycheck.
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I dont know about that...they couldn't even relate is my guess..

whats the point?

they pay me very fair - and you?

I guess that what gets me...everytime one of these check my airline pilot blog/hairgel ass boy posts come up - I just get confused more...

oh well.
 
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Instigator said:
Re: Eddie Murphy



Huh???
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Eddie only did SNL for one year before going out on his own. Pretty good move for him, in hindsight.
 
You ain't $HIT til you fly A J3100 for 5000 hrs. 7-9 legs a day, many of which you never see the ground from 200AGL to 200AGL. If you don't know what I am talking about find out. Then talk about $hit not stinking. Those of you who have can appreciate what I am saying.
 
NoahWerka said:
You ain't $HIT til you fly A J3100 for 5000 hrs. 7-9 legs a day, many of which you never see the ground from 200AGL to 200AGL. If you don't know what I am talking about find out. Then talk about $hit not stinking. Those of you who have can appreciate what I am saying.
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Okay.....Try flying a Swetroliner(SA-226,227) in and out of all the desert hot spots for 6000 hours with up to 13 legs a day and all handflown(no A/P)!
 
WhatRUSmokinGL? said:
Gulfstream how DID you start out?
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no different than anyone else...just refused to sell my ass to some regional for sub-Burger King wages.

couldn't afford to. It made no sense to me....I would have been in my mid-late 20s making 30K/yr? I simply couldnt accept that. I would walk from aviation first.

guess refusing that was a good choice for me in the long run.

Your needs or desires may vary, we can leave it at that I suppose?
 
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Just out of curiosity, if you HAD walked away from aviation what would you have done?

Personally, I dont have any other marketable skills. Certainly none that would yield starting-pay greater than 30K.

I have an aviation degree (stupid mistake)
A dispatchers rating that I thought was plan "b" (another stupid mistake)
And in the last 10 years i've done nothing but fly airplanes.

Who would hire me to do anything else???

<--- boned.
 
DX Rick said:
How about the guys still in school at Riddle? Good God, those guys are arrogant.

I had one guy tell me "They train us to be 747 Captains from the very first day". Oh, Ok there pal.
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yet more reinforcement for my argument that they are all a bunch of fargin' dooshbags.

what he said is true, in a sense, though -- just fly in a pattern with a riddle pilot and you'll see what he's talking about :angryfire
 
BenderGonzales said:
Just out of curiosity, if you HAD walked away from aviation what would you have done?

Personally, I dont have any other marketable skills. Certainly none that would yield starting-pay greater than 30K.

I have an aviation degree (stupid mistake)
A dispatchers rating that I thought was plan "b" (another stupid mistake)
And in the last 10 years i've done nothing but fly airplanes.

Who would hire me to do anything else???

<--- boned.
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bender:

cops around me start at 52K
teachers start at 45K+
McDs pays $9.50
car mechanics start at 35K and can do 80K+
town road workers start at 35K


now....flying airplanes is somewhat fun and the time off is great, but if I was going to be hitting 30 and looking at 30K with no stability in the regionals I would bail. no question. Dont like flying that much. again - YMMV.

You guys put too much emphasis on the degree type. Nobody cares WHAT your degree is in.

when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
 
cforst513 said:
yet more reinforcement for my argument that they are all a bunch of fargin' dooshbags.

what he said is true, in a sense, though -- just fly in a pattern with a riddle pilot and you'll see what he's talking about :angryfire
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All of them except me of course. That is sadly no lie. I go to Riddle at NIGHT, and all the guys there are like, "Man, I can't wait until graduation, the airlines are going to be BANGING my door down to give me a job."

Another jem is the, "Man I don't want to flight instruct. When I have enough time, I don't care WHO I work for."

I feel sorry for them. I think I am the only one in class that has some inkling of the sacrifice and hard-work that this takes.

BTW, I go to Riddle at night because I lost an AFROTC scholarship because I was a dumbass and I have to work now. Life sucks.
 

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