Gulfstream fined $1.3M for faking pilot records

[Amish RakeFight]

For your own edification...

Now gulfstream still found a way to keep PFT going for them selfs by putting 250hr pilots in the right seat. Now days we have 250hr pilots in the right seat of E-175's and CRJ-900's! Would you rather have a 250hr pilot in a 1900 or a 76 seat jet?

The correct grammar would be "themselves."

 

[WayBack]

Oh how soon we forget! ASA,Comair,CoEX and a bunch of other were all PFT back in the day when there was a surplus of pilots. Now that there is a shortage they all dropped the PFT. Im sure that there are a ton of late 90's new hires that would think different of your scam idea. So i guess all these airlines are scams? Now gulfstream still found a way to keep PFT going for them selfs by putting 250hr pilots in the right seat. Now days we have 250hr pilots in the right seat of E-175's and CRJ-900's! Would you rather have a 250hr pilot in a 1900 or a 76 seat jet?

Does this make you feel better for paying for your job?
In the end, I'd rather have a 250 hour pilot in a highly automated airplane, rather than a dinosaur like the 1900.
Plus the captain of the jet is more likely to have some actual flight time, and not a GIA PFT'er as well. So if something were to happen, he could sniff out the problem before it occurs. Where as the GIA crew, chances are you have two guys who paid for all their flight time to get there ASAP, and not know their head from a hole in the wall.

 

[critterair2]

Should Spirit fire the five or six guys they hired straight from Riddle? 0 turbine time! Are they scumbags too? They got lucky, anyone of us would jump on that if they had the chance. Keep in mind lots of people worked at GIA and did not PFT. If someone offered you a job when you were instructing working at GIA as a new hire, not PFT would you have turned it down? Not bashing just curious how many would REALLY say no. How about a poll?

 

[fam62c]

In the end Gulfstream will do what all airlines do when they get fined by the FAA, they will appeal the fine and after the initial media attention wears off the matter will be settled for pennies on the dollar or a change in company procedures/oversight that will satisfy the matter with no fine. The FAA has no interest in putting airlines out of business because airlines provide cushy jobs for FAA employees. There are probably 5 FAA employees making between 75-95K working bankers hours to "oversee" the GA certificate.