Looking for info from Gulfstream pilots

[JohnnyP]

....

Great, now im uneducated. I think its humerous how wrapped around the axel you and others get about this silly website. Let it go. In the grand scheme of things, it really doesnt matter, does it? Step outside, theres a beautiful world outside of the room your computer is in. Maybe you should get out and see what it has to offer. If just a website forum reply gets you so fired up, what happens when someone in the real world says something you dont like? Come on, jump off the deep end again for us. Its nice to have entertainment when were sitting here in the pad on reserve. 6.5 hrs left and counting, then its back home for xmas, have fun refreshing the forum's over the holidays to see if us cRazY!!! guys posted something. Hope everyone has a great and safe christmas.
JohnnyP............BAFAN'ers UNITE!!!

 

[Vik]

Do I have to PFT to be a BAFAN'er? Do I join by just stealing your avatar?

 

[crzepilot]

....

Ha, who gave you the idea BAFAN and pft'ing are related?.....3.5 hours left and counting.....

 

[JohnnyP]

na

BAFAN same as pft'ing, na, not even close.....

 

[millhouse21]

Anything that you have to call a "program" must be pretty darn close to PFT

 

[stuart716]

i have said it before and i will say it again. no one will say sh!t to your face about going to GIA. maybe in someones fantasy land and when they arent face to face they will talk all the trash they want to but it doesnt happen on line at any airline that i know of. people need to grow the fukc up and find something else to b!tch about. trust me there are plenty of things in this world more wrong then someone going to GIA.

 

[Jester119]

Gulfstream

I work at FXE as a Flight Instructor, and can tell some good stories about a number of Gulfstream pilots. One of the first would be that for some reason I had to fly the good old Frasca with them. Come to find out they did not pass the basic inst. check out so I am the young low time instructor training these guys to pass their inst check there kind of funny and embarrassing on their part to have to fly with me or the other instructors. I have also been out on some late night flights with students and see the 1900 doing landings. I can remember the night when the controller made a nice comment about the pattern that they were flying. "Beech ---- your leaving my airspace and you would like a full stop taxi back as you requested is that correct" , Flying the B-52 pattern! I give the great appreciation to all the pilots that built their hours by teaching or other methods then these pay your way in methods.


Here is the items they are tested on to enter the program http://www.gulfstreamacademy.com/profiles/profiles.html

Any one want to start up Cliff Notes for Gulfstream!

 

[stuart716]

hey slick
for one thing not every pilot is chuck yeager or lucky enough to be as good as you. when the pilots are there at FXE they are in the plane for the first time and doing a checkride. besides if i remember correctly the atc there is ALSO training and have probably made more mistakes then the GIA guys/girls have.

 

[Jester119]

Gia

I am not the best far from it, wrong place to say ur the beast when people are always gonig to be better. But there is also a time when you should know some basic ifr procedures and want to become a airline pilot. Seems to me jumping the gun.

 

[stuart716]

im not the beast; i just work for the devil. different post though.

there are a few things to be learned about aviation that we all should remember. not everyone does good on a checkride/sim. does that make them a bad pilots; no. plus not everyone that applies to GIA is the best pilot, same can be said for any airline. there are instructors and schools out there that will sign of anyone with the right amount of cash and they cant all be airline pilots.

 

[The_Russian]

I am not the best far from it, wrong place to say ur the beast when people are always gonig to be better. But there is also a time when you should know some basic ifr procedures and want to become a airline pilot. Seems to me jumping the gun.

Please check your basic grammar and spelling skills prior to posting on this thread.

I work at FXE as a Flight Instructor, and can tell some good stories about a number of Gulfstream pilots. One of the first would be that for some reason I had to fly the good old Frasca with them. Come to find out they did not pass the basic inst. check out so I am the young low time instructor training these guys to pass their inst check there kind of funny and embarrassing on their part to have to fly with me or the other instructors. I have also been out on some late night flights with students and see the 1900 doing landings. I can remember the night when the controller made a nice comment about the pattern that they were flying. "Beech ---- your leaving my airspace and you would like a full stop taxi back as you requested is that correct" , Flying the B-52 pattern! I give the great appreciation to all the pilots that built their hours by teaching or other methods then these pay your way in methods.

As more of our aviation youth grows into "I don't know what the #&%@ I'm talking about"!

Oh, ask your friends at Professional Flight Training how much they pay to fly the Navajo!

 

[searching]

I guess it must be a real kick in the balls to all these "airline pilots" who hate PFTers, that the sons and daughters of many many pilots who actually sit on the hiring boards of majors/nationals/regioanls are being told to attend these bridge/time build/PFT/PFJ programs such as Tab/Gulf/CAPT/RAA/Flight Safety etc. etc. by their fathers/mothers. Many of these PFJ/T/ers whatever they are, WILL get hired at majors before most of you. That inlcudes me. Wether you or I like it or not. You can't dispute the fact. A person will favor their blood over anything else.


Too bad for you. I think that's what really makes you guys mad. Flame me if you will. It's the fricken truth.

 

[jbDC9]

You don't have to buy a job at GIA. You can do the F/O program and go on to another regional. Which is not PFT. The Fast Track Captain program is PFT. You buy a job when you enroll in that program. That is wrong. Building some time is not.

Sol Rosenberg already referenced this paragraph, but it kinda cracks me up... and Commie Chick hasn't bothered to say otherwise; in this one little paragraph she appears to be talking out of both sides of her mouth. Okay, we understand that if you do the FO program you are free to move on to somewhere else, and we get that the Fast Track Captain thing is PFT... but what about Mr. Joe Blow freight dog who applies for an off-the-street FO position? Can anyone apply to GIA for an FO position and get hired? I'm not asking about a Capt seat, we get that part. If a person can't apply and get hired for an FO seat, meaning the only way to get that FO seat is to go thru the FO program... then GIA is indeed a PFT airline. Duhhhh....

 

[T-REX]

Here is the items they are tested on to enter the program http://www.gulfstreamacademy.com/profiles/profiles.html

Any one want to start up Cliff Notes for Gulfstream!

OMG! 1 ILS Approach! Tracking VORs! Student must know multiengine terms....WTF!!! I never actaully thought this place was actually that bad! If this is for the rapid captain program then I should tell my sister to rent a car.

Does Greyhound stop at EYW?

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

I guess it must be a real kick in the balls to all these "airline pilots" who hate PFTers, that the sons and daughters of many many pilots who actually sit on the hiring boards of majors/nationals/regioanls are being told to attend these bridge/time build/PFT/PFJ programs such as Tab/Gulf/CAPT/RAA/Flight Safety etc. etc. by their fathers/mothers. Many of these PFJ/T/ers whatever they are, WILL get hired at majors before most of you. That inlcudes me. Wether you or I like it or not. You can't dispute the fact. A person will favor their blood over anything else.
Too bad for you. I think that's what really makes you guys mad. Flame me if you will. It's the fricken truth.

I do not understand what you are trying to say in the above underlined section. Nobody is telling anybody to attend PFT programs.


PFT'ers are right next to scabs in my book. What's frightening is that in the 1990's, I saw several startup supplimental airlines (passengers and cargo) unknowingly hire a scab or two to be their DO or Chief Pilot. Once you get one scab in a position to hire pilots, I guarantee you he will infiltrate the seniority list with his old stinky scabby buddies. One of my previous airlines had a scab DO and scab CP and they brought in all their scabby buddies, then I had to be stuck flying with them and hearing them bitch because they couldn't find a jumpseat to commute to/from work. hah, wonder why. My point is that in the event a PFT'er becomes a member of an interview board for a halfway decent airline, he'll recruit alot more of his rich PFT puke buddies.