CL600Pilot
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- Dec 11, 2001
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Tank Commander said:If Lear70 say so, I guess thier is. I was a 500hr. wonder child. satlol, I up grade this year.
And I'll be happy to see you in the left seat Tank! I personally would have beat feet for Mutual but that's just me. The difference between you and many of the other low time new hires (everybody notice I said many not all!) is that you have a ton of experience making major decisions with major consequences - albeit not aviation related. I will stipulate that the Gulfstreamers and other low time new hires probably get an unfair amount of "crap" here at Pinnacle but the cold hard truth is that they themselves do a fair amount to perpetuate this situation. Many of them don't understand that there is ALOT more to being a Captain than being able to fly the airplane without crashing it. The most commong thing I hear from low time(when they were hired) guys is "I have 2500 hours in this jet - that's my left seat". I flew with a guy the other day that actually said to me that he deserved to upgrade because he had 2000 hours of CRJ time - after talking with him a bit it turns out that he has done absolutley nothing to help develop the other "Captain skills" he'll need - he's quite content sitting in the right seat like a bump on a log just writing hours into his logbook until he gets the magical number - it's people like that give you guys a bad name.
Anyway, that's my long winded way of saying that I think you "get it" and will be a great Captain - I hope I get to fly with you again before I leave.
CL