Flexjet Pilots About To Draw A Line In The Sand!!!

[Ludicris]

NJW, why are you lifting your leg - are you trying to pass gas?

 

[Ludicris]

speak for yourself

HazMat is not just speaking for himself. He is speaking for the vast majority.

 

[cherry20's]

HazMat is not just speaking for himself. He is speaking for the vast majority.

I'm gonna have to agree with Hazmat!

 

[Dilligaff]

I'm gonna have to agree with Hazmat!

Me too.

 

[luckydog]

This has to be one of the best parts of FI:
"This message is hidden because netjetwife is on your ignore list."

 

[netjetwife]

I'm all for replacing insults with issues and attempted censorship with selective reading. It's the fair thing to do...and...one has to wade thru less mud to get to the solid posts. There's a good reason I wear boots here...

 

[EatSleepFly]

Could some of the Flex folks post the latest update on the possibility that the recall time will be extended? Is there any chance that the CAB will be sitting down w/management to discuss the situation?

I don't think there is much chance that the CAB will ever do much of anything, let alone give a $#!t about the furloughs. Hard to accomplish much when they only meet a few times a year, if that. To be fair, I don't know if that's because of management or the CAB themselves, but it doesn't really matter.

 

[BeenThereDoneIt]

Netjetwife: Glass, I'm shocked to hear that Avantair pilots aren't as safe/professional as other frac pilots. Not too smart. The others just discuss me in the FBOs...

Me: Hey NJW.....ask Glass if he knows of any Piaggio Captains who, as an FO... have been kicked out of the plane at TEB by their Captain, or if he knows of any Piaggio Captains who have busted the ADIZ in DC (while his FO was warning him NOT to depart without a sqauwk code like the sign says) and got popped by the feds, or if he knows of a Piaggio Captain who lost control of his Piaggio and dumped it off the runway at SLC, or if he knows of a Piaggio Captain who does night "touch-n-go's" in a P-180 to satisfy night currency, scaring the living hell out of his FO as they kept landing long and hot in the dark, or if he knows of a Piaggio Captain who busted the altitude for the missed approach at TEB and got cranked on by the controllers for busting THAT airspace as well.

Then ask him if he knows of any professional fractionals that would employ such a Captain.

 

[netjetwife]

ESF, is the present CAB's term up? It sounds like a new group would help energize the process. A change of leadership can make a big difference.

Been there, the quote you pulled was part of a joke but the situations you describe are no laughing matter...

 

[Imissmypilot]

Same old, Same old

I don't think there is much chance that the CAB will ever do much of anything, let alone give a $#!t about the furloughs. Hard to accomplish much when they only meet a few times a year, if that. To be fair, I don't know if that's because of management or the CAB themselves, but it doesn't really matter.

I agree 100%, ESF. The CAB has a couple people who are interested and the majority only care about their job security. As such they are not going to make any waves or disagree with DG or TC. It is hard to change anything meeting so infrequently. Most of the former members of the CAB left because they cannot get anything done, so why waste their time.

We had a really good opportunity to change things for the better before the last raise when things were going great guns. Now we are banking on management to take care of us, right. I said we should've voted for a union back then and now the tables have turned, as I knew they would. DG was quite concerned about the pilot group back then - remember all the weekly voice messages about how important we all were. That's about the same as the other lie they told us many years ago about how we would always be the highest paid in the industry.

Maybe one of these days we will draw a line in the sand.