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Looking to go from Airline to Corp.

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Oh westwind driver...

You are jumping into a pool with a lot of far more experienced guys then yourself here...and you sound like a farkin moron.

You are obviously very new to this.

You are very proud of 41K/ yr. Thats laughable, I have flown nothing but corporate and have not made less than 100K since 27yrs old.

Who do I fly for? well...some here know as I have met them on the road, but its not in the fortune 500 as you are proud of, its North of Fortune 10 (as if that matters)

We could go on.....Jet PIC since 22, 6 type rating before 30yrs old...never unemployed....but you will learn quick enough that means squat. (but if ya wanna have a pee contest PLEASE....let me know)

Here's the question: Are you successful?

Your answer: Im a Westwind (thats a turbojet folks!) SIC with a type rating at 21. Im great!

In a few years when you realize what a tool you were you may answer a bit different...like...

I have a great wife and kids who love me.
I have a great house, very comfotable, very affordable, with lots of equity.
I have a strong retirement portfolio and a pension started.
My kids are lucky to go to great schools with great peers.
Myself and my family are healthy.
I have great friends. In fact, more than one got me a good job.

My job? Oh yeah...its a good job, it pays well, Oldest aircraft I fly is 5 yrs old, I know my schedule pretty much 60 days out, I started with about 5 weeks vacation, and I work with 100% professionals.

see how far the "job" came down the list?

Please...

"Jr. Capt" , tell us again how you bang around as a gear biatch in an old westwind...

What an accomplishment.

:rolleyes:
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Geez G200, I actually was enjoying your response until I got to the gear biatch part. Funny how you make this thing about "Jet PIC since 22, 6 type rating before 30yrs old...never unemployed....but you will learn quick enough that means squat." BUT then you want to elevate yourself and you're fellow captains by calling me a gear biatch. How crude. I could continue to justify my position, but that is not needed. I will only say that I am hardly the gear biatch, as I swap legs with the other pilots. I'm not just the monkey in the cockpit or the captain's "boy"

I was, and still am going to agree with your position about being successful, having a great wife, kids, home etc etc. But at this moment in time, I don't have the above. I have my career and thus far I feel I have been successful, as a Westwind SIC.

Granted when I get older, and finally decided to marry and start a family, they will become priority #1, but it's kinda hard to provide for them without having established myself as a marketable pilot.

I feel I have accomplished quite a lot in my young life, and why any dickhead such as yourself would want to take that away from someone I just don't get.
I don't always look at things as "Look at me, what I have, what I do.." but for someone who survived an inflight encounter with a flock of geese and subsequent crash landing, I feel even luckier to be where I am... SO YES, I DO TOOT MY HORN A LITTLE BIT... but I'm sure when you were 22 JET PIC, you did the same thing. So why don't you look back at what you did and give me freakin break bud?



Gulfstream 200 said:
Oh westwind driver...

You are jumping into a pool with a lot of far more experienced guys then yourself here...and you sound like a farkin moron.

You are obviously very new to this.

You are very proud of 41K/ yr. Thats laughable, I have flown nothing but corporate and have not made less than 100K since 27yrs old.

Who do I fly for? well...some here know as I have met them on the road, but its not in the fortune 500 as you are proud of, its North of Fortune 10 (as if that matters)

We could go on.....Jet PIC since 22, 6 type rating before 30yrs old...never unemployed....but you will learn quick enough that means squat. (but if ya wanna have a pee contest PLEASE....let me know)

Here's the question: Are you successful?

Your answer: Im a Westwind (thats a turbojet folks!) SIC with a type rating at 21. Im great!

In a few years when you realize what a tool you were you may answer a bit different...like...

I have a great wife and kids who love me.
I have a great house, very comfotable, very affordable, with lots of equity.
I have a strong retirement portfolio and a pension started.
My kids are lucky to go to great schools with great peers.
Myself and my family are healthy.
I have great friends. In fact, more than one got me a good job.

My job? Oh yeah...its a good job, it pays well, Oldest aircraft I fly is 5 yrs old, I know my schedule pretty much 60 days out, I started with about 5 weeks vacation, and I work with 100% professionals.

see how far the "job" came down the list?

Please...

"Jr. Capt" , tell us again how you bang around as a gear biatch in an old westwind...

What an accomplishment.

:rolleyes:
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No. I never acted like you when I was 22. Not even close.

I always worked with people more accomplished than myself. I learned, I kept my mouth shut, I networked. I earned thier respect, trust, and friendship.

You feel like you accomplished quite a bit and dont mind blowing your horn?...example...aircraft flown....C152,C172,C182.....oh boy...

Wake up. You're a pilot - and an inexperienced one at that. Time to learn. All your little IAJET rating says is that someone payed FSI 22K for a 2 week course. Thats it. How many in your class failed? um...none.

Good to hear a "Jr Capt" gets to "swap legs"....another stellar accomplishment. You actually fly..

That sure makes you a standout around here..yeah?


anyways...welcome to this board. You will find many valuable contacts here, good people, in all levels of corporate flying. Want to know who flys what? where? whos hiring? just ask...chances are someone here will get you the inside scoop....

so now that we know a bit about you and what you do, try not to sound like such an assmonkey and we wont have to slap you around again!...you are the biggest target since Gaut and that dude who wanted to start the skybar...whats his name????

Anyways..Good Luck.

:D
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ALLRIGHT! I give up.. I'll tuck my tail between my legs for I am among gods, and I won't make the mistake of forgetting that. :)

Come on people, don't take me too seriously just because I take myself so seriously.. I'm here for the same reasons you are.. to meet new people and learn new things... I may not have started off quite the best way.. but, well I'll learn...

keep the blue side up!
 
westwind driver said:
ALLRIGHT! I give up.. I'll tuck my tail between my legs for I am among gods, and I won't make the mistake of forgetting that. :)

!

Aw, come on. This was just getting good! Oh well, back to Jerry Springer.;)
 
XTW said:
Aw, come on. This was just getting good! Oh well, back to Jerry Springer.;)


Never "F" with a bored Corp pilot stuck on an India trip..

:mad:


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Gulfstream 200 said:
Never "F" with a bored Corp pilot stuck on an India trip..
I'll take that tip to heart.

Arguing on the internet is liking winning the special olympics. . .

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein
 
Gulfstream 200 said:
Never "F" with a bored Corp pilot stuck on an India trip..
I'll take that tip to heart.

... Arguing on the internet is liking winning the special olympics. . .

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein
 
A few bits of info from westwind driver:

1. I haven't flown charter at all

2. Before I flew on a King Air 200 as often as the operator needed, and flew many trips for free to build up "SIC turbine time" (quotes added)

westwind, do you see a problem with this.

Also, congrats on the type early in your career.
 
Congrats

Yes, congratulations on the recent type and best of luck on the charter thing! The FlightInfo crowd can be very humbling at times, but I gotta say, you're handling it well and came out with a certain amount of credibility intact.

I've often wondered how many pilots out there have fattened their logbooks with BE-200 SIC Turbine Time. Granted, if you were the sole manipulator of the controls, you could have legally logged PIC on 91 flights, but without being a REQUIRED crewmember, I would keep the fact that you have SIC time logged to yourself. You may want to consider adding a couple columns in your logbook, in case anyone interviewing or auditing you ever cares. "Part 61 PIC" (sole manipulator in aircraft you're rated in but not actually responsible for), "Non-required SIC" (Right seater as desired by operator or insurance company vs. Ops specs).

The industry is very much self-regulated and unless a lawsuit comes up due to an accident, the interviewers, investigators, insurers and audit companies rely on everyone knowing what's legal to log and what's not.

Oh, and so sorry for contributing to the thread creep! :rolleyes:

-PJ
 
XTW--Wanna go get a beer? :D TC
 
AA717driver said:
XTW--Wanna go get a beer? :D TC
No! I prefer to go get several beers! One is just a pathetic waste of time. At least that's what my own research has shown.:D As a matter of fact, it might be in about three hours, when the "little breadwinner" gets home from work. I'll hand off the little "trophies" and will be on my way!

Are you in my neighborhood?
 

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