Piedmont Hiring

[LowlyPropCapt]

I'm not sure.

I think it has something to do with turning on the STORM/DOME lights in night IMC when you're maneuvering around thunderstorms.

I guess it makes you less inclined to do it again, since they were brave/stupid enough to do it before?

Or maybe another "there I was, flying the BE200 into ORD" stories the CA love to hear?

We never run short of those, but new sources of the same story keeps it spicy.

I personally adore the "well, I was on the flying team...."

They RULE! So awesome. I know they can handle the radios, mostly. Well, not mostly. But they try so hard.

******For clarification- the recent grads from the "big" aviation universities have lost the knowledge of the most important part of doing this for a living- just because you learned it on the ground, doesn't mean you know it for life OR it applies in the air, ever. That's all. Older grads? Teach me a lot, and I appreciate it.

Guess I've had a phenomenally awesome month NOT flying with "How do we do the approach?" folks.

Back to your regularly scheduled whatnots. I'm personally hoping we are a roughly soft landing for all the folks that have been furloughed and are willing to work (slave) here, and I promise- you show up with 121 background? You'll have a blast.


********** Ahhh, hell. I see Lowly posted somewhere between my posts.


He freakin' rules. AND showed me the Tao of PBR. I'm older than him... barely... AND a grad of several universities. See kids? Come fly old planes, learn the old ways.

Thanks for the shout out, Sig. I shall hold a class espousing the virtues of the venerable Pabst for the new hires!

...Now, if I could just figure out how to land the dash...

The kids from the big university programs bring a lot of cool book knowledge that will serve them well eventually, so long as they have the wits to retain it. What they are really missing is a respect for their craft- knowing basic stick and rudder skills (you need those in a big tprop), work ethic (you ought to be studying even when it isn't time for CQ) and how to advocate a position without being a d*ck.

Most of them learn quick. It is the few who don't that make life hard for guys like me.

Oh. And please don't make me wake you up for the van EVERY day, kids. That gets old.

 

[CX880]

lowlyprop captain, is that a cofin on your avatar with the pabst logo? LOL

 

[dhc8fo]

The Dash was THE MOST FUN plane I have ever flown. I miss it.

 

[disw167]

Rumor is that PHX has given Piedmont the go ahead to aquire 10 more Dash 8 300s. I repeat Rumor!

Funny, Last I heard it was 2 300's and maybe 1 100. Those numbers just keep climbing.

 

[joepilot29]

So what do you end up with after completing Piedmont Dash-8 training? Is it similar to the CRJ training where you end up with an SIC type? I am debating getting my ATP. Just curious since I have about a year left at Comair after the recent news and will need another job.

I would love to fly out of New York again. Flying in Detroit is like watching paint dry......Boring!!!!!!!! I miss JFK and LGA!!!!!!

 

[GlenQ]

yea, you don't get an ATP from FO training, just SIC "type"

 

[aa73]

Flying the Dash will make a man out of the weenie flying an RJ.

Former T-prop driver,
73

 

[WSurf]

Flying the Dash will make a man out of the weenie flying an RJ.

Former T-prop driver,
73

Funny, almost everyone I have ever ran into. They can have 4 different Type rating. Jets, big or small. Each one will say the Dash 8 was there favorite plane to fly.

 

[WSurf]

Thanks for the shout out, Sig. I shall hold a class espousing the virtues of the venerable Pabst for the new hires!

...Now, if I could just figure out how to land the dash...

The kids from the big university programs bring a lot of cool book knowledge that will serve them well eventually, so long as they have the wits to retain it. What they are really missing is a respect for their craft- knowing basic stick and rudder skills (you need those in a big tprop), work ethic (you ought to be studying even when it isn't time for CQ) and how to advocate a position without being a d*ck.

Most of them learn quick. It is the few who don't that make life hard for guys like me.

Oh. And please don't make me wake you up for the van EVERY day, kids. That gets old.

We used to laugh at the UND guys for there favorite quote.... While always discussing aviation they always said....... "Well Actually" ... when that was said, get ready for a bunch of needless aviation info to follow...

Always was a good laugh hearing that..... Basically once they got in the plane they were full of useless, nice to know but doesn't help info!!
Then you had to watch then in fear while navigating through and around thunderboomers.

 

[Jar Jar]

We used to laugh at the UND guys for there favorite quote.... While always discussing aviation they always said....... "Well Actually" ... when that was said, get ready for a bunch of needless aviation info to follow...

Always was a good laugh hearing that..... Basically once they got in the plane they were full of useless, nice to know but doesn't help info!!
Then you had to watch then in fear while navigating through and around thunderboomers.

good thing we got some real pros from unc wilmington to straighten them out.

 

[GlenQ]

I never understood these avia degree preferences. It really has nothing to do with the job. Your scrap book of CRJ and ERJ-175 presentations at Harvard of the skies, goes a long way in DAsh8 ground school... They should put they prefer people that have experience applying for food stamps and are able to get a good night sleep in the back of a plane or on a couch so as to be rested for the 5am show.

Maybe the big names like UND or ERAU have slipped since they've been trying to just pump out crj pilots, but the aviation degree is by no means worthless, especially if it came from a school that seemed to produce a more well-rounded pilot, like some of the small colleges that have great aviation programs that don't try to just produce an rj fo...
"Aviation degree has nothing to do with the job" (of an airline pilot)? Really?

 

[BRA]

Anyone wants to fly those old piece of ----- Dash 8? send your resume to jurassic park.

I mean Piedmont Airlines....

I doubt I am alone on this, but basically since day one of commercial flying I have flown nothing but old junk. My hours in the profile are about up to date. Old cessna's, seneca's, duchess, beech 1900's, saab's, MD80's......all other people's old discarded junk. Many cargo pilot's fly nothing but old junk too. I enjoyed flying them all. So many people get to fly the modern RJ's, but not all. I think most of the Airbus at USAir and United are pretty old now too.

 

[CX880]

I doubt I am alone on this, but basically since day one of commercial flying I have flown nothing but old junk. My hours in the profile are about up to date. Old cessna's, seneca's, duchess, beech 1900's, saab's, MD80's......all other people's old discarded junk. Many cargo pilot's fly nothing but old junk too. I enjoyed flying them all. So many people get to fly the modern RJ's, but not all. I think most of the Airbus at USAir and United are pretty old now too.

Yea the airbuses are old, most of the UA and US airbuses still fly on Windows 98.

 

[CX880]

but the aviation degree is by no means worthless,
"Aviation degree has nothing to do with the job" (of an airline pilot)? Really?

Yea it is worthless if you're trying to be a pilot. You don't need an avia degree to put the gear up or write up a broken plane.

 

[nyboilermaker]

Funny, almost everyone I have ever ran into. They can have 4 different Type rating. Jets, big or small. Each one will say the Dash 8 was there favorite plane to fly.

Hands down. If flying a Dash paid what flying a Boeing paid, I'd fly it in a second. Boeing's easier to fly too.
NYB

 

[kf4amu]

Maybe the big names like UND or ERAU have slipped since they've been trying to just pump out crj pilots, but the aviation degree is by no means worthless, especially if it came from a school that seemed to produce a more well-rounded pilot, like some of the small colleges that have great aviation programs that don't try to just produce an rj fo...
"Aviation degree has nothing to do with the job" (of an airline pilot)? Really?

In my experience from 2000-2007, ERAU in DAB has done just that. Pumping out RJ pilots who only know how to fly within a small well defined "box", with no experience outside of that box. I felt like I learned a lot of information that didn't really help when I got my first job. But then again, I don't fly an RJ so maybe I'd be super at it.

 

[WSurf]

good thing we got some real pros from unc wilmington to straighten them out.

Seahawk Baby! Beach, Sand, Babes, and booze can straighten anyone out!

 

[GlenQ]

Yea it is worthless if you're trying to be a pilot. You don't need an avia degree to put the gear up or write up a broken plane.

unnecessary, yes I agree, but I wouldn't go so far as to say worthless...there's a difference.

 

[joepilot29]

I have yet to figure out why airlines place so much emphasis on an aviation type degree. I think it makes you a worse pilot actually. As soon as a captain tells me he went to ERAU I prepare for the worst. That degree is worthless if you lose your medical at some point. You could move to the management side of the airlines but that's about it or run an FBO.

I have a business degree which is pretty useless working in management for the airlines because an airline seems to be the most poorly run business on the planet next to the United States. It amazes me the decisions that the various airlines out there make from a business standpoint. Alot of them make zero sense. But what do I know.

 

[CX880]

I have yet to figure out why airlines place so much emphasis on an aviation type degree. I think it makes you a worse pilot actually. As soon as a captain tells me he went to ERAU I prepare for the worst. That degree is worthless if you lose your medical at some point. You could move to the management side of the airlines but that's about it or run an FBO.

I have a business degree which is pretty useless working in management for the airlines because an airline seems to be the most poorly run business on the planet next to the United States. It amazes me the decisions that the various airlines out there make from a business standpoint. Alot of them make zero sense. But what do I know.

That's because airlines survive based on the selling of a dollar product for 50 cents. That's why it will never make sense to business grads. Maybe that's what an AVIA degree does, explain how airlines are able to burn money and still operate the next day.

And I agree on the riddle thing, I was passing time with a riddle grad and we ran into another riddle grad CA from a major. They started talking about the most random things when they found out they were both alums.