Has it really come to this

[Pilot877]

A buddy just told me that he met a chick at the MIA Aeroservice job fair and she has 800 total time, maybe 150 in King Airs, No college and No FE written or even an A&P. She was hired by Arrow on the DC8 as an FE. Asked to sign a two year contract, then was called by Kalitta to be an FE on the 747. Apparently they (Kalitta) told her she would be an FO in about six months. She is on her way to DEN to interview but because she will be hired initially as an FE, there will be no Sim. I am seriously having a hard time believeing all this. Either she is full of **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**, my friend is, or Arrow and Kalitta are really REALLY desperate. If any of this is true all you wannabes out there should start calling. I would say however that getting through a DC8/747 FE course is highly unlikey with such low time. What a crazy biz.

Haha, your buddy is full of dookie, or he is yanking your chain. There isn't even a training contract at Arrow. The responses that this has generated are hilarious, though.

 

[belchfire]

Of my favorite FO's, say a "top five"
list, two are gals. Both are great pilots,
fun to hang out with after work and
deserve/d a shot at upgrade (one has),
but neither acted like I was in "their" seat.
Neither crossed any lines of er, "proper
decorum" shall we say. Both are highly
professional, yet will joke around with you.

Both of them put up with my warped, dark
humor...even laughed sometimes! Women the
world over have alot to learn from these two...

Sadly (as with some of the male fo's) this
is not always the case. In a situation as
lobsided as the ratio of males to females in
cockpit crewmember positions a few bad
ones really stand out and taint the expectations
from the others.

In my days as gear monkey/radio beeatch I sat
in the right seat for four female CA's. All
four had earned that extra stripe and have
moved on to better places...even the one
that walked away from aviation. I would climb
back into the right seat for any of them.

Again (and even more sadly) this is not always
the case.

I've been really lucky and I know it!