Lynx captain interview

[maddog805]

Does anyone have the gouge for a captain interview at Lynx?

Thanks

 

[regionaltard]

Know your landing gear emergency procedures cold.

 

[maddog805]

LOL! Thank you captain obvious.

 

[TNHillbilly]

Know your landing gear emergency procedures cold.

Thats funny.

 

[gcsass]

What's Lynx?

 

[Junior2]

Even better....don't work for LYNX. They pay BELOW standard, and you are just shooting yourself in the foot for a 'career'.

 

[Kaman]

Anyone that will accept a position as a Captain for $50.00/hour isn't using good judgement for their own career or the future of airline pilots in general.

 

[maddog805]

I'm not going to work for Lynx but thanks for the insightful coments. Does anyone have some useful information?

Thanks

 

[TheInsider]

Quote:

At least 87 people die as a budget airliner crashes on landing


I believe there is no scientific correlation between a pilot's compensation and ability to pilot an aircraft safely. If you are talking about a budget airline as a whole then why doesn't jetBlue, Airtran, SWA, or Frontier have more accidents?

 

[DashTrash400]

Quote:

At least 87 people die as a budget airliner crashes on landing


I believe there is no scientific correlation between a pilot's compensation and ability to pilot an aircraft safely. If you are talking about a budget airline as a whole then why doesn't jetBlue, Airtran, SWA, or Frontier have more accidents?

Airtran did. Mind you it wasn't the captain's fault, she did everything right once she knew she had a fire. She was murdered by the company she worked for, and therein lies the real lesson: if they're not willing to pay you what you're worth, what else do you think they might be skimping on?

Alaska 261 is another good example. Not a LCC obviously but AS trying to get their mx costs down directly led to that accident where the pilots essentially did everything correctly and still died.

 

[DashTrash400]

Since the topic is drifting, let me drift back towards the original subject at hand, Lynx.

Why do you want the gouge if you're not gonna work at Lynx!? "For a friend?" Well tell your "friend" they better not plan on jumpseating at Horizon, we're in negotiations right now and our mgmt is jumping up and down with glee at having $50/hr Q400 captains to compare us to.

 

[Kaman]

It didn't help us at CJC when they used an average between Horizon and Lnyx.
It's too bad that Frontier's ALPA didn't have enough clout to stand up to managment and make that a mainline airplane. Another blow to ALPA and another windfall for managment. I realize that ALPA can only do so much, but was it anymore than a feeble attempt by Frontier "mainline" to keep the Q-400 on their property.
I am still at a loss to explain why a 50-seat RJ captain makes more than the Captain of a Q-400???
This industry truly does suck...Time to get out the Acme Truck Driving app. again. Good luck Lynx...You're going to be the goats at DEN this winter

 

[Blucher]

It didn't help us at CJC when they used an average between Horizon and Lnyx.
It's too bad that Frontier's ALPA didn't have enough clout to stand up to managment and make that a mainline airplane. Another blow to ALPA and another windfall for managment. I realize that ALPA can only do so much, but was it anymore than a feeble attempt by Frontier "mainline" to keep the Q-400 on their property.
I am still at a loss to explain why a 50-seat RJ captain makes more than the Captain of a Q-400???
This industry truly does suck...Time to get out the Acme Truck Driving app. again. Good luck Lynx...You're going to be the goats at DEN this winter

Ahhh, what? Frontier is not an ALPA carrier. Other than that small part of your statement I agree with everything else you said.

-Blucher

 

[www.]

Airtran did. Mind you it wasn't the captain's fault, she did everything right once she knew she had a fire. She was murdered by the company she worked for, and therein lies the real lesson: if they're not willing to pay you what you're worth, what else do you think they might be skimping on?

Alaska 261 is another good example. Not a LCC obviously but AS trying to get their mx costs down directly led to that accident where the pilots essentially did everything correctly and still died.

But her career up to that point was not stellar.

 

[TNHillbilly]

It didn't help us at CJC when they used an average between Horizon and Lnyx.
It's too bad that Frontier's ALPA didn't have enough clout to stand up to managment and make that a mainline airplane. Another blow to ALPA and another windfall for managment. I realize that ALPA can only do so much, but was it anymore than a feeble attempt by Frontier "mainline" to keep the Q-400 on their property.
I am still at a loss to explain why a 50-seat RJ captain makes more than the Captain of a Q-400???
This industry truly does suck...Time to get out the Acme Truck Driving app. again. Good luck Lynx...You're going to be the goats at DEN this winter

According to the training dept. at CJC we will be joining them in DEN. It will be one big GOATROPE!

 

[T-prop]

It didn't help us at CJC when they used an average between Horizon and Lnyx.
It's too bad that Frontier's ALPA didn't have enough clout to stand up to managment and make that a mainline airplane. Another blow to ALPA and another windfall for managment. I realize that ALPA can only do so much, but was it anymore than a feeble attempt by Frontier "mainline" to keep the Q-400 on their property.
I am still at a loss to explain why a 50-seat RJ captain makes more than the Captain of a Q-400???
This industry truly does suck...Time to get out the Acme Truck Driving app. again. Good luck Lynx...You're going to be the goats at DEN this winter

Mainline pilots are too good to fly props anyway. Try and find an AA Flowback in an Eagle turboprop.

Under your logic, CAL should be flying the Q400's that your company is getting. So, go ahead and light yourself on fire for taking a mainline pilot's job...dork.

Frontier pilots did not want to fly the Q400. Lynx is to Frontier as Horizon is to Alaska, jacka$$. Same goes for every other regional that is flying under a mainline's colors.

 

[T-prop]

Airtran did. Mind you it wasn't the captain's fault, she did everything right once she knew she had a fire. She was murdered by the company she worked for, and therein lies the real lesson: if they're not willing to pay you what you're worth, what else do you think they might be skimping on?

Kinda like SWA before 2001. One of the lowest paid in the industry. After looking at their record setting accident history, you can definitely see a direct correlation in pilot pay and accident rate. Boy, you sure are 100% right.

FedEx gets paid near the top and look at their accident rate. For a while they lost an average of 1 widebody/year.

 

[katanabob]

FedEx gets paid near the top and look at their accident rate. For a while they lost an average of 1 widebody/year.

I think they're hoping it'll only average out to 1/year.

We have...(one of these isn't a widebody, I know)

Newark.....MD-11.pilot-error.....strike damage.....good visibility, contaminated runway

Manila....A300...pilot-error....$16 million damage..... good visibility, wet runway

Subic Bay....MD11 .pilot-error....strike damage...... good visibility

Tallahassee...B727...pilot-error...strike damage..... good visibility

Memphis...MD10..pilot-error...strike damage..... ...good visibility, gusty crosswind

El Paso...A300...pilot-error...$2 million damage.....good visibility

Memphis...MD11..pilot-error..$.5 million damage....good visibility, go around

Ft Lauderdale..A300...pilot-error..$1.5 million damage....good visibility

Subic Bay....MD11.initial look is pilot-error..$10.5 million damage(yow!)..good visibility, tailwind

That's nine accidents 1997-present.

 

[Shrek]

It didn't help us at CJC when they used an average between Horizon and Lnyx.
It's too bad that Frontier's ALPA didn't have enough clout to stand up to managment and make that a mainline airplane. Another blow to ALPA and another windfall for managment. I realize that ALPA can only do so much, but was it anymore than a feeble attempt by Frontier "mainline" to keep the Q-400 on their property.
I am still at a loss to explain why a 50-seat RJ captain makes more than the Captain of a Q-400???
This industry truly does suck...Time to get out the Acme Truck Driving app. again. Good luck Lynx...You're going to be the goats at DEN this winter

Frontier is NOT ALPA you mis-informed tool.
It is the Frontier Airline Pilot's Association - an "in-house" Union(FAPA).

 

[WSurf]

But her career up to that point was not stellar.

Yep! You can search the ALPA Scab list for her! I believe she took a Job at Eastern during a strike!