Soverytired
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Here's my .02 for new captains, especially at Mesa.
Everyone employed at this airline has one goal, and one goal only. That's to get you to get airborne. On time. Now. NOW NOW NOW NOW. This includes dispatchers. Crew Trackers. Your Mechanics. Even your chief pilot. This is not de facto a bad thing, but remember this . . . . .
There is only one person out there who's job is to SLOW DOWN and make sure everything is legal, correctly signed off, and above all SAFE. That person is YOU. No one else is going to put the brakes on to slow things down while trying to keep a schedule, and no one is going to thank you when you miss an on-time because you're double or triple checking. But that's YOUR job.
MX trying to get you to get a plane home to fix and you're not comfortable? So what. Stop, and call as many people you need to to get comfortable. Crew tracking telling you you're legal and you don't think you are? So what. Stop, and start re-counting things in the logbook until you're sure. Dispatch throwing you into the teeth of a storm with a broken airplane on the theory that "you can divert if you need to?" Screw that. Plead your case to as many people as you need to to make them see the light.
To summarize: SLOW DOWN. You're the only person who will, because you're the first person that will hang when something goes wrong.
Everyone employed at this airline has one goal, and one goal only. That's to get you to get airborne. On time. Now. NOW NOW NOW NOW. This includes dispatchers. Crew Trackers. Your Mechanics. Even your chief pilot. This is not de facto a bad thing, but remember this . . . . .
There is only one person out there who's job is to SLOW DOWN and make sure everything is legal, correctly signed off, and above all SAFE. That person is YOU. No one else is going to put the brakes on to slow things down while trying to keep a schedule, and no one is going to thank you when you miss an on-time because you're double or triple checking. But that's YOUR job.
MX trying to get you to get a plane home to fix and you're not comfortable? So what. Stop, and call as many people you need to to get comfortable. Crew tracking telling you you're legal and you don't think you are? So what. Stop, and start re-counting things in the logbook until you're sure. Dispatch throwing you into the teeth of a storm with a broken airplane on the theory that "you can divert if you need to?" Screw that. Plead your case to as many people as you need to to make them see the light.
To summarize: SLOW DOWN. You're the only person who will, because you're the first person that will hang when something goes wrong.