Mesaba CRJ-900 F.O.'s

[DX Rick]

How about:

"The cocky, the clueless, the Mesaba 9 F.O."

Fixed it for you.

 

[fowingman]

maybe you all can help me fiqure out why the heck are they so cocky, i just ran into other today, every single friggen right seat rj f.o has a huge chip , whats with it, man if i fly with them get ready to work the gear!

 

[McNugget]

It really is the most ungainly-looking jet in the skies, today. Looks like it'll break in half, and the engines are way to small. The Flying Giraffe.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Yeah I remember riding over to PanAm in Eagan on the hotel bus with these guys.

They were just burning to work the word "900" into conversation however possible. Just some more midwestern tools who think they're hot stuff.

 

[DX Rick]

Yeah I remember riding over to PanAm in Eagan on the hotel bus with these guys.

They were just burning to work the word "900" into conversation however possible. Just some more midwestern tools who think they're hot stuff.

Reminds me of the guys who say "I fly the E170. It's the one that looks JUST like a 737, but a little bit smaller"

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Reminds me of the guys who say "I fly the E170. It's the one that looks JUST like a 737, but a little bit smaller"

Ha! Just a little smaller, like 80,000lbs smaller.

 

[DX Rick]

Ha! Just a little smaller, like 80,000lbs smaller.

My flight attendant would look JUST like Jennifer Aniston, if she were a little bit smaller.

 

[xjhawk]

two things, I have seen a couple of the a holes in the crew room.....they are the ones who you see who try to look better than everyone else....but they give the majority of the rest, the good ones a bad name. The only good this post will have is maybe opening up a few of the idiots eyes, but generally it will make the other good ones think everyone hates them.....well, try including the newbies into your conversation in the crewroom...build unity, we will need it

 

[whaleroast]

For the Saab guys and gals, it won't be hard to look different in the crew room come July....the sweat, the stink, the shear joy of another Saab summer radiating from my skin.
So I guess the answer is get used to this aloofness.

 

[DoinTime]

I seem to remember a similar sentiment about the Avro FOs about 6-7 years ago on this same web board. For that matter I personally remember the attitudes of some of our CRJ-200 FOs when they first went into service along side of the Saab at 9E. I think in any operation with multiple types you will get a superiority complex among those in the equipment generally accepted as being superior. Just look at at mainline carriers where the the wide body guys consistently dump on and sell out the narrow body guys.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

I seem to remember a similar sentiment about the Avro FOs about 6-7 years ago on this same web board. For that matter I personally remember the attitudes of some of our CRJ-200 FOs when they first went into service along side of the Saab at 9E. I think in any operation with multiple types you will get a superiority complex among those in the equipment generally accepted as being superior. Just look at at mainline carriers where the the wide body guys consistently dump on and sell out the narrow body guys.

Yet another reason that generally I hate pilots.

 

[AvroGuy]

It really is the most ungainly-looking jet in the skies, today. Looks like it'll break in half, and the engines are way to small. The Flying Giraffe.

you must be talking about the mad dog 80/83/90 or what ever you want to call the thing. Oh waith, the super strech -9

 

[xjlifer]

Someone needs to un-leash "the Staske". Give that guy some pickled eggs and a Budweiser and stand back. He will make any fo humble........or dead.

-Spartacus

I got something for you and it ain't beeno!

 

[WildBlue]

We heard a whole of smack coming from our Mesaba brothers about the quality of our operation and the 300-hour wonders. I feel for you guys....lived it.

I just hope that those of us Peaknuckle show just a bit more class than was shown to us by remaining silent.

 

[PA44Jockey]

Seriously, does it matter what you fly? In my eyes is all about pay and QOL, but that's just me. I am looking at these guys like the majority(not all) of Corvette drivers. A little insecure are we?

 

[EmeliaE]

These jack*ss FO's need to get a clue. With over 1100 pilots now if they want to further their career they will have to upgrade on the Saab. Hope their skills are up to par for an NDB approach in CIU in white out conditions with a crosswind and poor braking. Good luck Mavericks. Their ego's are writing checks their body can't cash.

:uzi: SHINY JET SYNDROME:smash:

Must not have been fun to get stuck on the Saab for so long. I see this thread as nothing but a jealous outburst towards those who are flying the CRJ-900 as their first airline job.

I guess the 'years' of seeing Pinnacle pilots (for having all the jets and seeing those low time pilots make it to captain and move on to majors while you're stuck flying the NDB in the Saab at CIU) progress and now the newbies flying the jets is finally taking its toll.

Yes, there might be some 'stuck up' 900 FOs, but I see the same with some of you Saab captains...who should be lucky they upgraded to Saab when their knowledge and skills are sub par.

Move along!

 

[Metro752]

Must not have been fun to get stuck on the Saab for so long. I see this thread as nothing but a jealous outburst towards those who are flying the CRJ-900 as their first airline job.

I guess the 'years' of seeing Pinnacle pilots (for having all the jets and seeing those low time pilots make it to captain and move on to majors while you're stuck flying the NDB in the Saab at CIU) progress and now the newbies flying the jets is finally taking its toll.

Yes, there might be some 'stuck up' 900 FOs, but I see the same with some of you Saab captains...who should be lucky they upgraded to Saab when their knowledge and skills are sub par.

Move along!

Wrong, it's guys sick of you punk ass motherfvckers taking craps down their throats because you fly the easiest freaking plane know to man, to fly. STFU, you don't even have to set your own power. Have some respect for the Saab guys who have been flying a lot longer than you, you piece of crap. I hope your company gets your name, and puts you on the blanket party list.

It takes a hell of a better pilot to fly an NDB approach, than some button pushing moron who's probably not even sure how an ADF/RMI works with an NDB, and is just glossy eyed staring at the panel as your captain, a former Saab driver, takes the controls away from you once again because you have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE on what you're doing.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Wrong, it's guys sick of you punk ass motherfvckers taking craps down their throats because you fly the easiest freaking plane know to man, to fly. STFU, you don't even have to set your own power. Have some respect for the Saab guys who have been flying a lot longer than you, you piece of crap. I hope your company gets your name, and puts you on the blanket party list.

It takes a hell of a better pilot to fly an NDB approach, than some button pushing moron who's probably not even sure how an ADF/RMI works with an NDB, and is just glossy eyed staring at the panel as your captain, a former Saab driver, takes the controls away from you once again because you have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE on what you're doing.

Hmm... So the autothrottles on the Avro didn't do that for you? Of course on the Saab you had to .... oh wait that's right flip the CTOT switch. Careful about some of those statements. The Saabs with the FMS working aren't the greatest challenge in the world you know. Granted 3 or 4 legs beats the hell out of 7 or 8 per day though, been there done both.

 

[Metro752]

My post was @ the 200 hour wonder pilots.



WHAT DOES PAUL FOLEY DO

 

[suupah]

Wrong, it's guys sick of you punk ass motherfvckers taking craps down their throats because you fly the easiest freaking plane know to man, to fly. STFU, you don't even have to set your own power. Have some respect for the Saab guys who have been flying a lot longer than you, you piece of crap. I hope your company gets your name, and puts you on the blanket party list.

It takes a hell of a better pilot to fly an NDB approach, than some button pushing moron who's probably not even sure how an ADF/RMI works with an NDB, and is just glossy eyed staring at the panel as your captain, a former Saab driver, takes the controls away from you once again because you have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE on what you're doing.

Don't worry, in six months time it will all even out and even the mighty mesaba niners will care mostly about days off and a pay raise.

 

[Metro752]

Don't worry, in six months time it will all even out and even the mighty mesaba niners will care mostly about days off and a pay raise.

One can only hope.

 

[whaleroast]

There's a big difference between autothrottles and CTOT, just as there is a big difference between a hotel in Greenville and a hotel in New Orleans.
You still have to set the power in the Saab, you still have to use at least half your brain when you fly the thing and you still have to fly with the old hags in the back who still complain about how noisy the Saab is after 9 years on the airplane. Those chicks are so old you don't even need to wear a rubber.

 

[Flybet3]

Hmm... So the autothrottles on the Avro didn't do that for you? Of course on the Saab you had to .... oh wait that's right flip the CTOT switch. Careful about some of those statements. The Saabs with the FMS working aren't the greatest challenge in the world you know. Granted 3 or 4 legs beats the hell out of 7 or 8 per day though, been there done both.

Come on man! LOL. CTOT? i wouldn't even call it a poor mans autothrottles.

 

[Flybet3]

Once I again everyone needs to calm the fu**** down and stop complaining about idiotic 19 year olds that have an attitude and think they are God's gift to the industry. Especially if you are the PIC in the CRJ900, 200 or even the SAAB, you need to be able to professionaly but "surely" put these guys in their place and teach them how to be a PROFESSIONAL. Yeah yeah I know many of you will say I'm not here to babysit anyone, but once again IT IS WHAT IT IS, and that's the way the industry is no a days. Not only do we have to deal with douch***s, but we have to pretty much fly, and think for the both until they have some experience. That's the regional world unfortunatly, and like someone told me once..."Work with what you have, make the best of it, and always do things with excellence".

 

[sinkrate]

These jack*ss FO's need to get a clue. With over 1100 pilots now if they want to further their career they will have to upgrade on the Saab. Hope their skills are up to par for an NDB approach in CIU in white out conditions with a crosswind and poor braking. Good luck Mavericks. Their ego's are writing checks their body can't cash.

Naawwww....After the merger with Compass NW will sell all the Saabs to Colgan. They aren't worth anything in an IPO. Of Course the bottom half of the seniority list will go with the AC to Colgan. And you left out the NDB approach was to a circle in two and half sm vis with a 30 knot xwind. We did that many times to 23 in CSG, with no approach lights or vasi. I thought a 'nine' was the 'antique twin jet Douglas', one of those planes pilots actually fly. Not an extra stretch Challenger with a cute little tail skid.

 

[Jmoney]

Damn..

Wrong, it's guys sick of you punk ass motherfvckers taking craps down their throats because you fly the easiest freaking plane know to man, to fly. STFU, you don't even have to set your own power. Have some respect for the Saab guys who have been flying a lot longer than you, you piece of crap. I hope your company gets your name, and puts you on the blanket party list.

It takes a hell of a better pilot to fly an NDB approach, than some button pushing moron who's probably not even sure how an ADF/RMI works with an NDB, and is just glossy eyed staring at the panel as your captain, a former Saab driver, takes the controls away from you once again because you have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE on what you're doing.

Damn, dog!

You might make this little punk cry! I mean, have a little mercy on the poor boy. He probably spent 5 yrs at ERAU drinking wine coolers and watching Wrestlemania at least 4 nights a week with a dorm comprised of 98.5% males (and the other 1.5% chicks who could pass for guys.)

I mean, if that's not "paying one's dues," what is? Mommy and Daddy had to shell out a lot of bucks and even possibly take out a 2nd mortgage on the "retreat in the Hamptons" just to finance such drudgery.

After all the money the kid has shelled out on hair gel and I-Pods, does it really matter if he knows anything about flying? Who needs NDBs, anyhow? Russians? Screw them!

Give numbnutz a break! He really knows hard times-hell he has to be very careful to stay away from open flame lest his hair gel ignite (see signature line.)

 

[OttoPilot]

WHAT DOES PAUL FOLEY DO

Rumor has it that he will be in charge of all regional flying for Delta.

 

[CptMurf]

And you left out the NDB approach was to a circle in two and half sm vis with a 30 knot xwind. We did that many times to 23 in CSG, with no approach lights or vasi.

Need 1500ft ceiling and 3nm vis to circle per FOM. Need this to even start the approach. Maybe you were compensating with the "sm" comment, but that would have worked the wrong way for you and only given you 2.2 nm vis.

I know, I know, this is worse than correcting spelling. There are a lot of new guys out there though and they new to know the correct rules.

 

[CptMurf]

Must not have been fun to get stuck on the Saab for so long. I see this thread as nothing but a jealous outburst towards those who are flying the CRJ-900 as their first airline job.

I guess the 'years' of seeing Pinnacle pilots (for having all the jets and seeing those low time pilots make it to captain and move on to majors while you're stuck flying the NDB in the Saab at CIU) progress and now the newbies flying the jets is finally taking its toll.

Yes, there might be some 'stuck up' 900 FOs, but I see the same with some of you Saab captains...who should be lucky they upgraded to Saab when their knowledge and skills are sub par.

Move along!

I see you payed 10 dollars and chose this to be your first FI post. Good job, nice FLAME, now move along. Have fun in your upgrade to the SAAB someday!!!

 

[Terry Hunter]

April 2005 join date... I think that was before the $10 charge kicked in? (And when food was offered on airplanes).