PDT reduce fleet, furloughs in the future.

[Sig]

The Chief Pilot visited my CQ class today

Which one? The actual Part 119 manpleaser on the certificate, or the manager?

and said that we were going to have "roughly" 20 furloughs in May (didn't give an exact number, but when I pressed him he said that I "should be" safe as #28).

You are safe through the summer.

It also sounded like he had little hope for the other 7 aircraft this fall and that we'd be looking at close to 90 total furloughs after returning them (he was estimating in the mid-80s).

Let me explain something, Shawn. They lie to us, you, me, anyone.

Our highest level (Mr. RunAground, the Shoe, the Inept Scumbag of Piedmont Airlines, the feller who allegedly banged an employee and a blast fax went out when she was fired) LIED on Ask Piedmont during the Syracuse debacle.

This imbecile is so inept, he can't even wrap his mutant neurons around the permanence of "interwebs" updates. He stepped on his own flaccid squid penis by unwittingly exposing the lies he told to all of us.

Point is, we're earning an honest living in a dishonest system. All of the puppets have this failed sailor's Dutch Rudder up their keister- and he's writing the script.

In crayon.

Plan for the very worst.

 

[FlyingShawn]

Did I say I believed anything he said about the outlook beyond May? Certainly not (although I'll agree that I have little/no hope about those other 7 planes, but that's based on my economic views and my opinion of LCC, not because of anything JohnnyB said).

My only concern today was the number of furloughs coming in May so that I can make plans accordingly (and even then I'm not going to believe it until hard numbers are released and the WARN letters go out). I only reported the rest of it because I figured that others on here might want to know what's being said.

 

[Sig]

Did I say I believed anything he said about the outlook beyond May?

No you did not. And you seem to have your ducks aligned, which is good.

The warn letters are on Shirl's desk now. They'll be out over the weekend.

They were (*&*($(#*ing printed on Monday.

Those 7 are gone. What happens when the RJ grievance goes down? I don't know. But I'm well up the list, and I'm personally preparing for furlough.

I'm a captain. I'm preparing for furlough.

I give it even odds within the following year.

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

If Piedmont was a ship, and the aforementioned squid was the Captain...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ-uG2UCZaU

 

[Sig]

If Piedmont was a ship, and the aforementioned squid was the Captain...

BUT I WASN'T ON THE BRIDGE!

Way to go, thailor.

I just have to add it!

If Piedmont was a Spruance Class Destroyer... and the managerial space of operation was Seal Beach...

 

[FlyingShawn]

Has that destroyer rumor ever been proven? It seems too outrageous to be true, but at the same time it just seems to fit too well to not be true.

 

[Sig]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Elliot_(DD-967)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Elliot_(DD-967

Scroll down to see who was the CDR then:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/967.htm

 

[FMEpilot]

god I hate that ***********************************. I wonder if he is gonna have the balls to say hi to the crew before he travels like he has always done.

 

[kf4amu]

When are you guys gonna realize he isnt a CEO? He's only a Director of Operations. He doesnt/can't make any decisions. Mainline dictates what to do and he does it. He has no control over these leases or furloughs.

This:

Doug: "Steve be ready to take over the west coast Dash flying if Mesa tanks"
Steve: "OK, we'll stay fat on pilots for a while to hit the ground running in PHX"

turns into this in the pilot grapvine:

Doug: "Steve we are going to have a PHX base"
Steve: "OK I'll hire all the pilots but keep it a secret. I'll keep everyone in the dark by publicly saying we are ready to take the PHX flying but havent made the decision yet"

 

[PHXFLYR]

We still have 805 yes, but 906 is the queen of the fleet and its still setting new records every day for most hours flown on a Dash 8.

You guys stiil have 906 ??? I did my F/O checkout in that airplane as a new hire in 1986. Holy cow...

PHXFLYR

 

[Sig]

You guys stiil have 906 ??? I did my F/O checkout in that airplane as a new hire in 1986. Holy cow...

PHXFLYR

What a freakin' peach she is to this day, lemme tell you.

 

[WSurf]

What a freakin' peach she is to this day, lemme tell you.

And the seats up front are some of the finest in the fleet. NOT!!!

 

[Flight1339]

If I remember correctly 906 got some "new" seats that you can adjust...908 on the other hand....well that planes a different story.

 

[OPECJet]

There was always one of those SOB's I always landed a lot worse than the rest. 908 or 911 rings a bell. I could never sit comfortably in that turd and the result was a further downgrade in my mediocre flying skills.

BTW... Pulled into HPN tonight and saw 931 on our ramp. It was so hard for me not to put our security stickers all over that pile it wasn't even funny. On a lighter note, it's now twice that I've gotten a reply to my chicken noises on ops when flying near SBY.

 

[quinnlake]

. On a lighter note, it's now twice that I've gotten a reply to my chicken noises on ops when flying near SBY.

That's classic!

 

[PHXFLYR]

What a freakin' peach she is to this day, lemme tell you.

Sig,
She wasn't much of a bargain while I was there, either although it was in much better shape than 909. Do you happen to know how many cycles 906 has and it's total time ?

PHXFLYR

 

[PHXFLYR]

There was always one of those SOB's I always landed a lot worse than the rest. 908 or 911 rings a bell........

I wouldn't worry too much about getting consistently good landings . One of the senior SBY guys(since retired) would tell me when he saw me get ll p/o'ed after another less-than-flattering ..er...um.."arrival"...;:blush: "sometimes you land the dash 8 and sometimes the dash 8 lands you" Truer words were never spoken,at least when it came down to me and my severe lack of aeronautical prowness

PHXFLYR

 

[LearLove]

If I remember correctly 906 got some "new" seats that you can adjust...908 on the other hand....well that planes a different story.

if they are the seats that are bolted at 90 degrees with 1/2 inch plywood seat bottoms they are from 2 of the allegheny planes that went back before the merger. people would complain and write them up and they would remove and swap them with seats from another dash then put the crappy seats back in another dash. then the cycle would start again, crews would write them up and so forth, as if we wouldn't notice the crappy seats showing up in another aircraft.

Last time I sat in thoes seats they were in EI-CHP and EI-CBJ. Before that it was 820 and 819.

 

[kf4amu]

Sig,
She wasn't much of a bargain while I was there, either although it was in much better shape than 909. Do you happen to know how many cycles 906 has and it's total time ?

IIRC it came out of heavy check a couple three months ago and it had 68000 cycles on it.

 

[PHXFLYR]

68,000 cycles ???? Wow.....!!! Pretty impressive. I guess the total time should be pretty close to that figure. They find anything out of the ordinary as far as the airframe and structure was concerned ?

PHXFLYR

 

[zasca]

Nope, they're trying to write the book for a maintenance schedule for Dash's up to and exceeding 100,000 cycles. Can you effing believe it???

 

[DASH8AV8R]

YEAH, N906HA was the first Dash in the world to have the main winshield supports replaced..

 

[AceCrackshot]

Nope, they're trying to write the book for a maintenance schedule for Dash's up to and exceeding 100,000 cycles. Can you effing believe it???

Why, yes. Yes, I can believe it.

There will be Dash 8s grinding around with revenue passengers when cockroaches inherit the earth and use my Glock as siege artillery against each other.

 

[Quimby]

The Dash is the 80's version of the DC-3. Nothing wrong with that.

Great a/c.