Piedmont Hiring

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What's this thread about again?

 

[no1pilot2000]

This thread has been derailed. Do you remember the game teachers sometimes played in school when she would have the students sit in a big circle in the classroom. She would them go up to one of the students and tell that person something and it would be repeated until the quote would make it all away around the circle to the last student. The last student would repeat what was "supposedly" said, but it didn't sound anything like what the teacher told the first student. That is what happens to topics on this thread, some to most of the time.

 

[CutEmUp]

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 so you can see the instruments without needing reading glasses.

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

Or maybe another "there I was, flying the shorts into LNS" stories the FO 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 at ALG...."

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

******For clarification- the not so recent hires from ALG/PDT have lost the knowledge of the most important part of doing this for a living- just because you learned that FAR 20 years ago, doesn't mean it still applies OR it applies in the air, ever. That's all. Old guys that don't judge? Teach me a lot, and I appreciate it.

Guess I've had a phenomenally awesome month NOT flying with "Awe my back hurts/whats the latest on the early retirement?" folks.

There, fixed it for ya.

 

[johnsonrod]

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

I have actually heard this from a few former Dash drivers (PDT, Horizon and Mesa). What do people like about flying it? Any examples?

Also, are your 300s the only aircraft with FMS? Do you guys get pushed around a lot in the NYC area (deviating) with all of the other traffic?

 

[WSurf]

I have actually heard this from a few former Dash drivers (PDT, Horizon and Mesa). What do people like about flying it? Any examples?

Also, are your 300s the only aircraft with FMS? Do you guys get pushed around a lot in the NYC area (deviating) with all of the other traffic?

No you don't get pushed around in the NYC Area. If anything we get slowed all the time.
The things you can do in the Dash 8 are incredible. You could be 3000' on a 3 mile final and still stick it on the numbers.
You can take off from Hilton Head with 33 pax and be off the ground in 1500 feet.
I liked our reply last winter during a snow storm. Piedmont say breaking action! Our reply......... Sorry we didn't have to use brakes
The Dash 8 is a very, very forgiving airplane.
Dash 8 200/300 have the UNS-B's. The 100's have the old KNS660's.

 

[JoeMerchant]

I think the simplest way to put it is:
RJs are nice to fly.
T-props are fun to fly.

Well said....The RJ is nice, but I miss my ATR....

 

[OPECJet]

I got screwed with more in the NYC area flying a Citation X than I did flying the Dash. Constantly speed restricted in the climb while following an MD-80 out the (insert departure fix here).

In the Dash they step climb you while you keep the speed up. The airplane seems to work well up in that area.

 

[kf4amu]

I got screwed with more in the NYC area flying a Citation X than I did flying the Dash. Constantly speed restricted in the climb while following an MD-80 out the (insert departure fix here).

In the Dash they step climb you while you keep the speed up. The airplane seems to work well up in that area.

This is why it's difficult explaining to people that a jet doesnt get you there 50 percent faster because it can fly 50 percent faster.

 

[dash_trash]

What do people like about flying it? Any examples?

A few of the things I like about the Mighty Dash-8 ...

Getting vectors to see if you can make the visual into PHL ... 900' on the south shore of the river ... cross the numbers on runway 35 at 86 knots and flaps 35.

Landing on runway 15 in DCA and holding short of 1/19

Shortest landing roll ... runway 23 in ORF for MX ... on the numbers and made the right turn to the old MX hanger ... ~6-700 feet ... just because.

Doing the locked wheel (boeing) turn when taxing into position ... just to show mainline you can do it to.

Low altitude "back" routes to avoid ground stops/delays and not have to worry about fuel.

Carry a boat load of ice.


Back on topic ...

Sent Bob Trout the "updated" resume a couple week ago ... originally started at PDT in '99, left in '03 ... furloughed in '08 but hey, got to fly a jet all over the country! :bomb: :laugh: :bomb: ... nothing like giving up 12 years seniority and possibly starting over at the bottom, again ... wonder if I have to do the whole interview/sim eval thing, again?

 

[hockeypilot44]

A few of the things I like about the Mighty Dash-8 ...

Getting vectors to see if you can make the visual into PHL ... 900' on the south shore of the river ... cross the numbers on runway 35 at 86 knots and flaps 35.

Landing on runway 15 in DCA and holding short of 1/19

Shortest landing roll ... runway 23 in ORF for MX ... on the numbers and made the right turn to the old MX hanger ... ~6-700 feet ... just because.

Doing the locked wheel (boeing) turn when taxing into position ... just to show mainline you can do it to.

Low altitude "back" routes to avoid ground stops/delays and not have to worry about fuel.

Carry a boat load of ice.


Back on topic ...

Sent Bob Trout the "updated" resume a couple week ago ... originally started at PDT in '99, left in '03 ... furloughed in '08 but hey, got to fly a jet all over the country! :bomb: :laugh: :bomb: ... nothing like giving up 12 years seniority and possibly starting over at the bottom, again ... wonder if I have to do the whole interview/sim eval thing, again?

Ouch. Isn't there somewhere else you can apply that pays better?

 

[OPECJet]

Ouch. Isn't there somewhere else you can apply that pays better?

I couldn't bring myself to go through that misery again... I thought about it for about 1.426 microseconds, but no way I'm going back to a 2 leg commute and reserve hell.

Dash, who furloughed you?

 

[B727FA]

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

And Hubble isn't using a Pentium chip. What's your point?

 

[dash_trash]

I couldn't bring myself to go through that misery again... I thought about it for about 1.426 microseconds, but no way I'm going back to a 2 leg commute and reserve hell.

Dash, who furloughed you?

Flight Options ...

Not current as I haven't flown in about two years and no 121 in seven, so it really limits who will even look at my resume. I don't have to worry about a commute as I'm stuck just south of SBY :crying: uke::cryingalways open) due to my wife's position with NASA.

PDT is about plan "Z" in my options ... It'll be hard to find a bigger slacker of an FO! :laugh:

 

[WSurf]

It'll be hard to find a bigger slacker of an FO! :laugh:

You'll fit right back in then!

 

[OPECJet]

Flight Options ...

Not current as I haven't flown in about two years and no 121 in seven, so it really limits who will even look at my resume. I don't have to worry about a commute as I'm stuck just south of SBY :crying: uke::cryingalways open) due to my wife's position with NASA.

PDT is about plan "Z" in my options ... It'll be hard to find a bigger slacker of an FO! :laugh:

That sounds about right. I managed to get one interview and they didn't think it went as well as I did....:laugh:

If you're in SBY it might not be so bad going back to PDT. At least the airplane is fun, and the two most famous schedulers from when we were there are now gone.