To Ace-of-the-base and others:
My post earlier was not melodramatic, unprofessional, or silly. Most of us like to boast how professional we are or how we seek to perfect our flying skills, communications, and behaviors. Truth be told, we are ALL flawed, as we are human. We have feelings and emotions. To deny them would be silly.
To say that going through a divorce does not affect your flying is bordering on stupidity or arrogance. To say that once you're in the cockpit, you're all of a sudden a robot who immediately forgets about your families, your mortgage payment, or job security is just lying to yourself. You may not think about it during decision height, but you're thinking about it during cruise, on every flight, period.
Simply put, the delay of the contract has put many families' lives, marriages, mortgage payments, and dreams at jeopardy. To compound, the alleged deceiptful actions of the company smack many pilots in the face on each flight.
These thoughts felt during cruise flight, or perhaps during a pre-flight or post-flight period where concentration is not at it's peak CAN affect the outcome of the flight - I don't care how professional you think you are.
I am relaying information from pilots who have spoken to me on the line. You can choose to insult me, but that's not going to fix the attitudes of Netjets pilots.
By the way, I am leaving Netjets to brighter pastures, but I recognize that many pilots cannot because of age, experience, financial requirements or simply due to the fact that the aviation industry is not hiring a lot of pilots now.
And, oh by the way, I am sober right now.
