Lights on Airliners for ice?

[SkyBoy1981]

Please do not compare flying a gulfstream(or any coprporate a/c) to flying 300+ pax to the corners of the globe.......there are many more issues to consider here....that's my point. And corporate pilots can, at any time, be hired upon the owner's prefference. It's true, you know it. $$$$$$$$.

This statement is so ignorant that its not worth typing out a long reply.

 

[TIS]

Please do not compare flying a gulfstream(or any coprporate a/c) to flying 300+ pax to the corners of the globe.......there are many more issues to consider here....that's my point

And they are? Come on there pal, let's hear 'em!

For the record, I think you're right - they shouldn't be compared. What a corporate pilot does in support of his trip does not begin to compare - on any level - to what an airline pilot does.

- Who plans the flight? The fuel stops? Not the airline pilot.
- Who files the flight plan(s)? Not the airline pilot.
- Who checks the life rafts and vests for currency? Not the airline pilot.
- Who determines how much fuel the flight takes? Not the airline pilot.
- Who sets up customs and APIS? Not the airline pilot.
- Who makes sure the passengers are taken care of on all stops? Not the airline pilot.
- Who arranges crew lodging? Not the airline pilot.
- Who coordinates maintenance when the aircraft has a problem on the trip? Not the airline pilot.
- Who actually flies the trip? Not … oh wait, THIS the airline pilot DOES do – unless the autoland needs a turn.

Having been an airline pilot I have a great deal of respect for what they do, so don’t run off at the mouth talking about airline pilot bashing or about how I just don’t understand. I do.

Saying that an airline pilot’s job is vastly different from that of the corporate pilot is a 100% true statement. Saying that the corporate pilot is somehow inferior BECAUSE of those differences is a complete distortion of how things are.

It’s just a different job, with different requirements, and I dare say FAR fewer people in the world who could do it for a career from personal and professional standpoints.

Oh, and just to bring this back to the original point, the G-IV does indeed have ice lights and we use ‘em just like the big boys do!

TIS

 

[svcta]

Okay okay okay, I never intended to spell out who is more talented.......and I don't think that I ever did. The answer is neither.

You guys began running off about that, and I never said that flying the a/c was any more of a trick. The thing was that dealing with those numbers of people is something that, believe it or not, is a dynamic that the corporate guys do not have to handle.

People getting dead, cologne that smells like the airplane is on fire, flight attendants that think you should divert because there's no hot water, etc. All somwhere over the north atlantic or siberia at night.

 

[svcta]

I'm off and up out.

 

[TurboS7]

I am an airline charter pilot, I can do all of the above, even put TP in the lavs. But......If I had to do it all--God forbid APIS(if you can believe it when it first came out management was considering having the pilots do it, I happened to be at the meeting and said no way jose.)My 16 hour duty day would consist of all of the above and when it came time to fly....I could start the engines and maybe get to the end of the runway.

 

[TurboS7]

Time out, you guys have it all wrong. The only reason that there are "highly qualified guys" flying the 777 is due to one fact called senority. 777 operators are the airlines and all the openings happen to go to senior guys-end of story. Anybody can fly the airplane, it is just another airplane, the systems are simple. The lifestyle, life situations, and emergencies are what makes the diffrence. Getting along with people, I have 50 pursers on our airline, I might as well be married to 50 diffrent women, everyone puts stuff in a diffrent place in the galley. I think they do it so you have to come and "ask them for it". The galley is their domain, the flight deck mine. Like home, the kitchen belongs to the women, and the comfi seat in from of the big screen TV belongs to the "Big Kahahuna". Anyway, enjoy being young and the trip up the ladder because as soon as you get there you wil begin the trip down the ladder. The one done is no fun.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

I think some of you looked into my posts way too deeply. I was using the widebody airliners as a comparison that more people could relate to, since less people on this board are or have been involved in corporate aviation. Everyone seems to think that just because RJ pilots are hired with 900 hours and work for nothing, and since its as large as a Gulfstream, that the same situation should be okay in a G-IV. They ARE two different worlds, with two different payscales, and the Gulfstreams should be at the top end of the corporate flying side. Having flown corporate, I know that any company that can afford to buy an airplane like a G-IV can afford to pay two experienced pilots to sit up front. If they are hiring a 900 hour pilot, it is because they are either too cheap to pay someone with experience, or the head of the operation has an ego problem and doesn't like flying with another experienced pilot in the cockpit. I've seen outfits like this before. Again, I'm not blaming Gearmonkey....he has been offered a chance to build valuable experience and he chose to take it, so good for him. I'm done now.