Exhausted at CAL

[Mookie]

You people are a bunch of sissies.....try doing DA COLGAN.....yes, that's right...
Not only are you allowed to fly 120 hours a month and 34 in 7 on the little beech, but you must hand fly, no gps, no SLATS....into the tiny airports.
And after your 7 or 8 leg day (or more), then they ask you to Part 91 Repo the flight to a maintenance base....no overnight bag with you? too friggin bad. Don't wanna do it? Then next month's schedule will have a few surprises in it.
You still get put up in a ********************ty hotel, with reduced rest, and only then do you get your $1.35 per diem. On top of a day like that, right at 10 hours of flying, I was asked to DRIVE a rental car at 2 AM to a hotel 2 hours away, so that we could start our next day a little earlier...and all of this for food-stamp money.
You guys think you got it bad? Don't ever complain about your 'mainline job'. Some would kill to have it.
Here's to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Do you know why you have to fly schedules like that?? because you guys continue to do that ********************. Tell Colgan to go ******************** themselves if they schedule you like that. show some goddamned balls as a pilot and/or captain and just ********************ing say no. y

ou know why it was so painful to lose the IAH contract to you guys? because it would only propogate this crap because it now makes the "market" think that this is what pilots have to do to compete against other regionals.

people who fly schedules like this and allow them to be built in the first place are morons. I'm sorry...but if you fly it...it will keep being built that way.

and also...everyone who has made it to a major has probably flown something similar, and yes...we don't want to fly those ********************ty ones again.

rant over,
Mookie

 

[General Lee]

Do you know why you have to fly schedules like that?? because you guys continue to do that ********************. Tell Colgan to go ******************** themselves if they schedule you like that. show some goddamned balls as a pilot and/or captain and just ********************ing say no. y

ou know why it was so painful to lose the IAH contract to you guys? because it would only propogate this crap because it now makes the "market" think that this is what pilots have to do to compete against other regionals.

people who fly schedules like this and allow them to be built in the first place are morons. I'm sorry...but if you fly it...it will keep being built that way.

and also...everyone who has made it to a major has probably flown something similar, and yes...we don't want to fly those ********************ty ones again.

rant over,
Mookie

How are your schedules at Alaska? My friends there say it really suks right now and that they are trying to squeeze you. Do you actually ALLOW them to do that to you? Are you a moron?

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Captain Overs]

Now thats funny! Maybe Pocono is a guy who dresses like a girl to gain acceptance from a father who has long dejected him for not accomplishing what subconciously he wanted to achieve during his impressionable years....

Ann Coulter??

 

[Mookie]

We have a little bit of everthing. We do have 5 leg days, but they are all either locals thru SE Alaska or two day trips with long layovers to recover. plus, they pay alot better. I like doing them especially in the summer, and I also like doing SJD, CUN, ZIH, BOS, etc... The rest of the schedules are typical (and much higher paying) 2-3 day trips with a smattering of 4 days that commuters like. Our monthly max (on reserve at least) is a lot less than 120hrs.

no...I don't allow them to squeeze me. those who do are morons. thank god Alpa negotiated a good sick leave/fatigue policy for me to use. People who allow scheduling to zone flop are idiots and setting themselves up for a dangerous precedent. scheduling tried to do it to me, and I politely called in fatigued (which I was actually). that was the last time they tried with me.

All this and we don't have to do LBB turns...
Mookie

 

[Captain X]

no SLATS

This is the second time this week that "no slats" has been used in a debate over whose flying is harder or easier.

All slats do is provide the additional lift to allow a heavier airplane to slow to approach speeds that a lighter, non-slatted airplane uses thereby allowing use of similar runway lengths.

Slats do not make flying any "easier." In fact, one could argue that with the potential of additional moving parts to malfunction and a heavier airframe that would be slower to respond to control inputs in such case that a slatted airplane could be "harder" to fly.

Blah, blah, blah....

 

[FlyinGuy]

What is funny is how the general has friends at every airline out there...and they all hate their jobs!!!

 

[Pocono Pilot]

Hey Junior Dingbat.
TWA was a premier airline in it's day.

The Pig.

Yeah, maybe like in the 80s. LOL

Nope, my mom isn't a flight attendant. But my dad is a Captain, just not at TWA, Piggy.

 

[T-Bags]

Yeah, maybe like in the 80s. LOL

Nope, my mom isn't a flight attendant. But my dad is a Captain, just not at TWA, Piggy.

Cal Scab?