PCL_128 vs. JoeMerchant

[spinproof]

Abviously, by your lack of experience you're talking out of your ass.....
737

Finally an expert on the subject speaks!

 

[737 Pylt]

Finally an expert on the subject speaks!

I'm glad you know that!
I guess it must be getting lonely under that rock. Shouldn't you be burning your Delta voodoo doll?
I bet you keep it right next to your blow up one!

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[strega7]

We also need to press for higher entry requirements....Until then, we will all do what is best for our own situation, and that will not help the profession.....

And yet the rumor is that SkyWest will not have any "required" time minimums for employment next year. We (for the first time) could have the 500 hour wonders that others (Horizon, etc.) have had to experience.

I'm trying to figure out how we can have higher entry requirements and yet still find new pilots to replace those how have moved on and/or crew additional airplanes.

I don't have an answer.

 

[CFI2766]

I'm trying to figure out how we can have higher entry requirements and yet still find new pilots to replace those how have moved on and/or crew additional airplanes.

I don't have an answer.[/quote]

That's the crux of the issue: if the career of airline pilot is not rewarding enough to entice new blood, something will have to be done to make it more attractive. Till now, minimums have been lowered to allow new hires who haven't the experience to be a part of a safe part 121 flight crew. With no minimums, but still empty cockpits, first better work rules, then higher wages, are likely to follow.

However, all of this could change tomorrow if one of the regional carriers, MESA, for example, goes TU. A glut of already qualified pilots in the market would return the labor market to a position that is more favorable to management.

Johnny Green speaking...good Scotch.

 

[regionaltard]

PCL_128 vs. JoeMerchant

This was a far more interesting battle.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

The ALPA cheerleaders like PCL and Rez need to understand that and press for changes within ALPA...

We are Joey... we are....


We also need more pilots pulling on the same rope. Not pulling in the opposite direction.... besides..who wants to work with someone who is so negative, disrespectful and counter productive....

We need mature pilots who know there are problems and work through them...

 

[jacksjj]

You guys spend way too much time on here.

 

[federico]

PCL is one of the few guys ive seen go from student at GIA to instructor on the airline side without even getting through probaton.. He has his ideas and stands up for his point of view. I dont know the other dude but at the rate PCL is going hell be running ALPA soon

 

[John Pennekamp]

I've met both Joe Merchant and PCL_128. I can tell you this:

In a bar fight, JM either pounds PCL into the ground (he's about 6'3") or stares at his shoes while hurling insults, then leaves drunk and gets laid. PCL either goes home with a black eye or goes empty handed and spanks it.

In a battle of wits, JM vanquishes PCL. Even if you disagree with him, JM has the experience to talk the talk and he knows of what he speaks. PCL parrots what the older and wiser ALPA reps force fed him during his short tenure as an ALPA rep, yet acts as though he's been there, done that.

So in summary, JM bitch slaps PCL then picks him up and buys him a margarita. JM wins hands down!

 

[John Pennekamp]

If the RJDC had not been going on during 911. We would have had Jets For Jobs at ASA and if you don't think so your crazy!

701EV

That's a fact. If you don't believe it, find DN DU or NT (or me) alone sometime and buy them a beer. They'll tell you the story. While National fought the "good" fight, the little guys here in the MECs were cheering them on. They were the threat that kept DALPA from cramming J-4-J down our throats. We discussed this as an MEC many times. DALPA wanted it bad.