pilotyip
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Punishment?
It's midnight in January. In the pilot's preflight check, the last thing he discovers is there is no one available to help load freight. So, a message is sent to Flight Following to call out a junior DA-20 F/O to help load ,a F/O is rousted from his sleep and dispatched to rectify the situation. First the F/O must get his car running and the battery is dead, which requires his roommate to be rousted out of bed to give him a jump-start. He finally gets to the airport. He arrives at the airplane and is less than enthusiastic about what he has to do. Nevertheless, he goes about the loading job deliberately and carefully (to do it right) so as to not risk criticism later for not loading properly. As he's leaving the plane, a management representative, stops him and says, "Son, your attitude and performance has caused this flight to be two and a-half hours late in take-off. I'm going to personally see to it that you are not just reprimanded but severely punished." The poor guy says, "Sir, with all due respect. I'm not your son. I'm a F/O at XYZ Air Charter. I've been at ABC airport for eleven months without any time off. I have only 3 stripes, it's two thirty in the morning, it's twenty degrees below zero, and my specialty is to push crap to the back of an aircraft. Now just what form of punishment did you have in mind?"
It's midnight in January. In the pilot's preflight check, the last thing he discovers is there is no one available to help load freight. So, a message is sent to Flight Following to call out a junior DA-20 F/O to help load ,a F/O is rousted from his sleep and dispatched to rectify the situation. First the F/O must get his car running and the battery is dead, which requires his roommate to be rousted out of bed to give him a jump-start. He finally gets to the airport. He arrives at the airplane and is less than enthusiastic about what he has to do. Nevertheless, he goes about the loading job deliberately and carefully (to do it right) so as to not risk criticism later for not loading properly. As he's leaving the plane, a management representative, stops him and says, "Son, your attitude and performance has caused this flight to be two and a-half hours late in take-off. I'm going to personally see to it that you are not just reprimanded but severely punished." The poor guy says, "Sir, with all due respect. I'm not your son. I'm a F/O at XYZ Air Charter. I've been at ABC airport for eleven months without any time off. I have only 3 stripes, it's two thirty in the morning, it's twenty degrees below zero, and my specialty is to push crap to the back of an aircraft. Now just what form of punishment did you have in mind?"
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