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I still don't see "nothing wrong with" someone crashing the sim during an approach, especially with no abnormalities (like in the circling approaches). Wienering up the approach and going around because you're not Chuck Yeager is reasonable, but crashing? Holy crap, you don't need to be Chuck Yeager to not crash.
 
lear24 said:
I still don't see "nothing wrong with" someone crashing the sim during an approach, especially with no abnormalities (like in the circling approaches). Wienering up the approach and going around because you're not Chuck Yeager is reasonable, but crashing? Holy crap, you don't need to be Chuck Yeager to not crash.
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Chuck Yeager has crashed more than once.
 
That bloated fat a$$ ring wearing looser JK is still working there? For christ sake, why can the pilot group get that slimeball removed?
 
lear24 said:
Nothing wrong with that? If you say so.
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It certainly didn't help that the sim is a POS.

JK administered the ride and gave an ECU failure right as we were circling. As PM I was looking at the torques fluttering... Meanwhile my partner apparently got disoriented. In the 1 second it took for me to get back to the instruments, we were 50 degrees bank, 40 pitch down.

I'm sorry that he couldn't fly the box as well as you could. Congrats. My partner can fly the hell out of the airplane, though. Feel free to judge.
 
I_Love_Lamp said:
My partner can fly the hell out of the airplane, though. Feel free to judge.
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Who can't, as long as everything is running, right?

Can your pard do a raw data circling missed, with an engine fire on the go? If not, why not? Can he fly the wet compass in IMC because some of the funking flux valves/gates suck so bad, the AHRS goofs every time off 13/LGA1- and the SAHS is dumptastic in the same tail #s? Could your bruddah fly the plane with a triple inverter failure in IMC?

If he DID get the trip inverter failure in IMC, would the captain panic, or laugh his arse off and promise the beers are on him if I'd (I mean, he'd) just stop laughing too?*

* Just got off the phone with that guy- and he's enjoying retirement. Still tells that story-

"And then my GD'd FO started barking at me! GET ME SOME JOOOO-UICE, man! My neck hurts!"
 
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I_Love_Lamp said:
That guy who started crying when he had to go missed (at IPT I believe)....

:crying:
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YOU DA MAN! It was SCE.

That's freaking hilarious... well played!

Ya know what- he DID IT AGAIN a week ago! Fought the captain on the missed, wouldn't TOGA/5/Gear, etc. What a sad sack of feces. On the return, refused to put flaps at 35- because that's not approved in IMC. Single pilot operation in moderate turb with low cigs. Nice! SEEEE YA!

WTF?!??!
 
doug_or said:
Thats the part I find deeply disturbing.
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I'm with ya, buddy. Seriously disturbing. Nobody was born with a 30K-hour captain's innate sense of driving an airliner- but that? That's inexcusable. He's tremendously arrogant about it, and I have actually rescheduled my wife's nonrev plans around him.
 
I_Love_Lamp said:
That guy who started crying when he had to go missed (at IPT I believe)....

:crying:
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Hey crying on the missed at IPT is better than turning left on the missed at IPT.

IPT, the first place I ever landed as a 135 CA, IPT the first place I ever landed as a 121 CA, HMMMMMM.......
 
$100.00 bucks for someone to walk in my resume and get me an interview... Seriously...And if i get the job $250...:)
 
dash 8's are great for building flight time, thats how i did it at piedmont, i'm so sick of cranky a-hole's complaining about the f.o's. being young, but you know what, if those 50 year old jerk captains were in the place of the 20 year olds today they would join the airline if they could at 23 as well. but yea pdt was nice to build time. hahah
 
flypixs said:
Really? Where are they based? I am not saying that you are wrong, but you are!!!!! Them old fuggers need to retire.
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I was there for over two years and only had problems with maybe 3 captains the whole time. I found if you did your job competently, didn't act like you knew it all after being there for three months, and are not a total toolbag, most of them are o.k. guys. I'd be pissed too if everyone I worked with was new and just building time to get out.
 
flypixs said:
Ok, ok,
back to the question asked a few days ago. Why is Piedmont grounding planes?
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According to the last "ask PDT", they ain't. False rumor and we all bit the bait hard core.

One more FO finished up in SYR today, and another got his ATC date for July so he'll bite the dust soon. Congrats to those two.

If there are any new hires on this board coming to SYR, when will ya'll be on the line?
 
MEL'ed said:
According to the last "ask PDT", they ain't.
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Confirmed on my line check yesterday... but maintenance (read: management's [you know who THAT is] silly demands upon and ham-handed handling of maintenance) is a subject that still has the rapt attention of the Feds. They're doing what they can, and are doing it better than my give-a-dam would ever allow. I was totally impressed with a MX issue a couple of days ago- it was almost as if someone was... gasp... thinking.

For those in the know:

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being "aviator personified" and 1 being "a syphed-up New Orleans hooer in the Economy Parking Lot," I give RM a 17 trillion. 5 line checks here, 4 with him, a bunch of training events as well- and I'm always awed by his kick-arse-itude. Truly one to emulate.
 
Sig said:
Confirmed on my line check yesterday... but maintenance (read: management's [you know who THAT is] silly demands upon and ham-handed handling of maintenance) is a subject that still has the rapt attention of the Feds. They're doing what they can, and are doing it better than my give-a-dam would ever allow. I was totally impressed with a MX issue a couple of days ago- it was almost as if someone was... gasp... thinking.
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Interesting...I remember PDT as the FAA Maintenence Gold Something-or-other Award winner in years past. I hear now you guys can't ferry without written permission from the FSDO. Is that true? If so, what has happened?

T8
 
Like all rumors, there was probably a grain of truth to this one. SIG is correct about the feds attention to our mx... They are on PDT like white on rice.

RM is an outstanding guy. Instructors come no finer.
 
MEL'ed said:
According to the last "ask PDT", they ain't. False rumor and we all bit the bait hard core.

One more FO finished up in SYR today, and another got his ATC date for July so he'll bite the dust soon. Congrats to those two.

If there are any new hires on this board coming to SYR, when will ya'll be on the line?
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Pretty soon you'll be the only FO left in SYR.
 

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