Is the Piaggio a two man crew or not?

[CherryBomb]

Miss Pebbles, I think you need a friend. I'll be your friend...

 

[C425Driver]

Maybe I'm on the ignore list, maybe I'm not. I'm still wondering how putting a bid out for an airplane and having the pilots selected on the basis of seniority combined with the hourly mins set by the owner equate to jockeying and bickering. I know three of the selected pilots personally and they all had less than 1 year of seniority when they were awarded the airplane, so it hardly seems any weaseling was involved. I'll firmly declare that you don't have the goods to back up your statement, nor do you have the balls to admit it - coward. You say you don't want to air our dirty laundry on here, yet you never hesitate to badmouth us at every opportunity. It's sad that someone who is as well-spoken as you wish nothing but ill-will upon our company and it's employees. Sad, indeed.

Dilligaff

D,

While I agree with everything you said, it's not worth it to argue with someone like peebles. He's holding on to a grudge that he can't let go of and will never listen to anyone who might have something good to say about Avantair. Your heart is in the right place, but your effort to reason with him is futile.

 

[RNObased]

I think once the luster of any aircraft wears off at the end of the day its all about how much you are paid and the QOL for which you make it.

That is the exact truth. If I could get paid jet wages to fly a turbo-prop around and be home more I would consider it. Jets are cool, but they built for serious travel and that means a lot of time away from home. The issue is you can't get paid jet wages unless you fly one.

 

[300pilot]

Props are for boats

 

[C425Driver]

Props are for boats

You must have stayed up all night to come up with that one.

 

[Mr. Pebbles]

Miss Pebbles, I think you need a friend. I'll be your friend...

We can be friends. I don't necessarily need more friends, but I'm a friendly person, maybe contrary to popular belief. HAHA

 

[Mr. Pebbles]

D,

While I agree with everything you said, it's not worth it to argue with someone like peebles. He's holding on to a grudge that he can't let go of and will never listen to anyone who might have something good to say about Avantair. Your heart is in the right place, but your effort to reason with him is futile.

No grudges here, friend. Just intelligent enough to know a dirtbag operation when I see one. Not because of the operation per se, but because of the scum that runs it.

 

[C425Driver]

No grudges here, friend.

Now that's funny!

 

[hammer2]

That is the exact truth. If I could get paid jet wages to fly a turbo-prop around and be home more I would consider it. Jets are cool, but they built for serious travel and that means a lot of time away from home. The issue is you can't get paid jet wages unless you fly one.

Words of wisdom. Quit wasting your time posting here, update your resumes. tprop is a tprop.
P.S. being ask to slow down for a Citation is not a big career acomplishment.

 

[CherryBomb]

Props are for boats

And boats pick up chicks...

 

[glasspilot]

Words of wisdom. Quit wasting your time posting here, update your resumes. tprop is a tprop.
P.S. being ask to slow down for a Citation is not a big career acomplishment.

250 hours and your telling me that tprops are tprops? Hey Jack, I'm typed in a 727 and have over 1,000 hours Jet Turbine PIC. Let me fill you in on a little something... A Turbo Prop is a power plant just like a Jet is a power plant. The mass of air moving aft doesn't care what moved it. I've worked at good companies and I've worked at crap companies. What matters is quality of life and the amount of money I bring home. The clerk at the grocery store doesn't give a dang about props and jets and the mortgage company doesn't seem to care either. The only fools that seem to care are runny nose, backpack tote'n, frosted hair, ipod wear'n, shinny jet syndrome, can't pay my student loan cause I owe 100K+ and work for 12K a year, gods of aviation with a whole 250+ hours such as yourself. How 'bout you update your resume to swing chairs at a ski resort in the winter and instruct surfing in the summer.



dumb ass

 

[TimsKeeper]

Someone needs to have his blood pressure checked.....

 

[glasspilot]

Someone needs to have his blood pressure checked.....

...maybe I overreacted a bit.

 

[hammer2]

After all that said, with all your time why did you choose the worst of all the fractionals? You should have waltzed right in to nj.

 

[glasspilot]

The world is not a pyramid. It doesn't shake out that there is one holy place that all pilots aspire to be and everywhere else is a step down. Is NJ a good company? Sure. And I don't knock anyone that goes there. However NJ has 400 some planes and 2600 some pilots. That means you have to wait until they have 800 some planes and over 5000 pilots until you can think about upgrade.

When I hired onto Avantair they had 26 planes with 59 firm orders for a plane that I think will do well in a world increasing fuel costs. I was hired as pilot 105 plus or minus 10 or so. I have to wait until they have 50 planes and 200 pilots until I upgrade. Avantair needs to hire 100 pilots until my upgrade. NetJets needed to hire 2,500. So I'm doing the math and rolling the dice. On the one hand I have worse pay and benefits than NJ. On the other hand I have the opportunity to be double digit on a seniority list that I can't see the limit to. Sure Avantair could crap out and I lose. But the benefits outweigh, in my opinion, the risk. I've lived my life thinking that it's unwise to "follow the crowd". What's Mr. Frost say? "I took the path less traveled and that has made all the difference." or something to that effect.

Anyway. I went to a job fair and NJ gave me the app package. I never filled it out. Perhaps I'll look back at that with regret, but for now I'm very happy where I'm at. My bet is (and I've lost a few bets in my life) that this choice will work out for me and my family. Good luck to you and I'm sorry I jumped on ya so hard before.