HEY FEDS!! - Make 1200 Multi mins for Regionals!!

[Lequip]

And yet the military puts pilots with only a few hundred hours at the controls of high-performance combat aircraft...

Experience, judgement and ability are what matters and hours simply aren't a valid measurment of those items.

Yeah, and almost on a weekly basis you hear about these guys crashing. If the airlines had the safety record of the military then nobody would fly. Routine missions crashing left and right. I wont mention other mishaps like flying into ski lift cable wires.

 

[ilovemesa]

Yeah, and almost on a weekly basis you hear about these guys crashing. If the airlines had the safety record of the military then nobody would fly. Routine missions crashing left and right. I wont mention other mishaps like flying into ski lift cable wires.

You are officially a moron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[maddog805]

I caught a lot of errors made by my captains when I had a 1,000 hours and I still did with 5,000 hours. Now I have more, and I am still correcting you guys. They were all greatful. What would your response be? Or are you too great of a pilot to make a mistake?

I NEVER said that I didn't make mistakes, you missed the point of my post. People only hear about the CA's mistakes. When I was an FO I was the worst slackass you ever met. When you upgrade however, things change. Someday you'll understand.

Hey, you're the PIC. Since your FO is so unqualified, I just know you don't want him catching any of your f*ck-ups.

Get over it people. They all have to go through the same training and pass the same checkride, m'kay? M'kay!

-mini

minitour:

Aircraft Experience: C152 C172
Flight Experience: Civilian
Ratings: Private - ASEL-IA
Current Position: Commercial Pilot "Applicant"
Total Time: 126

Whatever dude....

.

 

[flyer172r]

Yeah, and almost on a weekly basis you hear about these guys crashing. If the airlines had the safety record of the military then nobody would fly. Routine missions crashing left and right. I wont mention other mishaps like flying into ski lift cable wires.

Ummm, I don't remember hearing about any routine missions going down in the recent past. can you give us some examples?

 

[jetbluedog]

Hey Guys!

I love to stir things up on this board. Ya'll shouldn't take me so serious. Do you think my "1200 Multi requirement" post was for real??? Come on. Just having a little fun with ya'll out there. Isn't it a blast??

Some of you really need to LIGHTEN UP, man!

JetBlue FO

 

[UnstableAviator]

Hey Guys!

Some of you really need to LIGHTEN UP, man!

JetBlue FO

Aviation is serious business and there is no room for jokers like you. (joking)

 

[Snakum]

This moron (Buffington/JetBlueDog) has sent me five PMs in the last hour ...


... threatening me with a lawsuit for slander (it's libel if it's written ... idiot)

... bragging about how well his book is selling

... laughing at how tough we Eagle pilots have it and what suckers we are (I dunno where this no-life homo gets the impression I work for a Regional.)

... posting my real-life address (Oooooh I'm scared! )

... clowning me for being an atheist

You are truly a loser Micheal. I'm not the only person who knew it was just you again. There are four of now who are aware that this is just the latest account you created to sell your $hit-rag vanity-published book.

Seriously man ... move on and forget about aviation. You couldn't hack it when you were working in it, so why hang around and stir the pot?

You have real issues ... and you need real help. And I'm not clowning you on that count .... I seriously hope you can eventually move on and maybe get a girlfriend ... get married ... have a real life ... make friends in the real world ... etc.

Minh Thong

 

[BE99chick]

This moron (Buffington/JetBlueDog) has sent me five PMs in the last hour ...


... threatening me with a lawsuit for slander (it's libel if it's written ... idiot)

Sue me too, idiot. I'm bored.

 

[BoilerUP]

Its the EMP guns.

 

[jetbluedog]

HEY SNAKUM!! GOT THE WRONG GUY!! HA HA, I love it. Slam Mr. Buffington all you want, but his book still ROCKS after 4 years of publication!!

www.squawk7700.net

JetBlueDOG

 

[BE99chick]

Lame, weak, girly reply.

That book, I'll bet you have 65 unopened crates of it stored in your mother's garage, Mike. No store would even carry it.

It's you. Now go find a new identity.

And by the way, I didn't appreciate what you posted on the thread about Tony Krysiak's MU-2 accident. Not one bit. You're the one who better think about what comes "after".

Tool.

 

[jetbluedog]

Last I heard from Mr. Buffington, 'bout 3 months ago.....

50,000 copies + sold.

$16.95 X 50,000..........Do the math!

You can email him at [email protected] if you don't believe me

Not bad for a self-publisher.

 

[BE99chick]

I doubt it. I was at Eagle for years, and I've never heard of you or your "book". And, I've published over 50 articles in KNOWN aviation publications, one scholarly journal article and one chapter as a consultant in a book.

Surely, I would have heard of such a well-selling book as yours, but alas.....

Additionally, I am VERY close to one of the guys who testified after Roselawn. I know all about "Unheeded Warning" and have a copy of it right here.

You didn't sell any books. Now go play with your EMP gun or go make up a new identity.

Or, go call your lawyer and sue me...goofball.

 

[RedheadCFI]

Hey jetbluedog, Why don't you blow me 2 or 300 times and then we'll discuss the importance of hours for a "shiny jet" thats easier to fly than most light twins. Not to mention we have such a high time extremely experienced and intelligent captain like yourself next to us to "babysit" us. Let me guess, you must of got all your experience flying solo in the worst a/c possible right? Poor baby, don't hate low-timers cause they get to build time in an RJ just because you couldn't. You're an idiot.

 

[100LL... Again!]

I support it not for safety reasons, but to stop the 300-hr wonder from buying his 'jet job", and diluting the job market.

This sort of barrier to entry would make a BIG, BIG difference in pay for regional FO's.

 

[RedheadCFI]

ok, I'll buy that...

I support it not for safety reasons, but to stop the 300-hr wonder from buying his 'jet job", and diluting the job market.

This sort of barrier to entry would make a BIG, BIG difference in pay for regional FO's.

Ok, I'll buy that but remember not everyone buy's their job some people go through the motions and build time the hard way. Maybe they should make a rule against bridge programs or somehow restrict those people??

 

[HueyPilot]

Yeah, and almost on a weekly basis you hear about these guys crashing. If the airlines had the safety record of the military then nobody would fly. Routine missions crashing left and right. I wont mention other mishaps like flying into ski lift cable wires

If the airlines flew low-level routes at 500' AGL doing 420 knots groundspeed, they may very well have a similar accident rate. Not to mention that most of the USAF's accidents involve single-engine aircraft that spend most of their flying time in high-g environments.

On an equal plane, the military's transport accident rate is about on par with air carriers, if you eliminate those mishaps related to low-level flying, or doing combat assault landings on short unimproved airfields in the middle of Timbuktu.

Apples and oranges, and you sir, don't have a clue.

 

[Nindiri]

"An exciting, heart-wrenching account of the author’s flying experience, revealing 10 years of his life as an aviator. From his adolescent fantasy of flying to being employed as a first officer on a major regional airline, Buffington recalls how he mastered some of life’s impediments to accomplish his dream of becoming an airline pilot."


Never upgraded, eh.

 

[BizPilot]

I thought it was actually a pretty good book, read it a couple years ago during my 135 layovers. Recommend it.

 

[Stearmandriver]

So you're saying if you had been offered a 121 job at 600 hours total time with a good company, you wouldn't have taken it?

And, uh, which "good" company, again, hires 600 hour pilots for a 121 job? I know alot of BIG companies that hire these pilots; I even work for one of them (CoEx, although, for the record, I had over 1000 multi when hired, as if it matters), but I certainly wouldn't call any of the RJ operators "good" companies. We're supposed to be one of the better ones, and it's pretty abysmal here compared to real, career-type places.

 

[igneousy2]

I built my multi time the old fashioned way...I flew freight. When the regional I worked for started hiring guys from bridge programs at 500 hours total time I was appalled. Not the thought of 500 hour FO's but the thought of pilots that would eventually be 2000 hour captains scared me. But, after getting to know a couple and getting to know what there programs entailed I was pretty impressed. The 500 hour pilots that my airline was hiring came out of bridge programs that did all their flying IFR and did it all in a crew environment, practicing crew procedures for most of the hours. I have come to the conclusion that it is far better to have someone with 500 concentrated hours all multi, practicing IFR in a crew environment, then to have someone with 1200 total time, mostly instructing VFR with maybe 200-300 hours multi spread out over a couple of years.

As far as captains babysitting FO's, I admit, i've had a couple that I wondered how they made it through the school house, but if you're feeling like every single FO is a F-up and nobody is up to your standard than I think you need to take a look within yourself. Your "crew concept" is probably lacking.

In my experience, most captains that feel this are usually uptight about the wrong things. You are pissed off that the FO slows down a little sooner than you would on final but maybe you don't know yourself that you are supposed to slow your climb/descent to 1,000 fpm when within 1,000 feet of your altitude.

If you expect perfection from your crew, you better be perfect yourself.

Later.

 

[jetnut]

I bet his flight instructor had 300 gulfstream hours

 

[JungleJett]

It nevers ceases to amaze me the lengths a pilot will go to denigrate another pilot. This is like a kindergarten playground. Some here claim to be professionals yet cannot be professional in their arguments. I would venture to say this translates into the cockpit as well. Then there are those that claim to have a grasp on everything that is aviation and has nothing more to learn. That is the scariest pilot of them all.

No one here was born with thousands of hours and an ATP. You grow, you gain experience, and you never stop learning and sometimes, you never stop teaching. Aviation changes everyday..hop on and enjoy the ride.