This is for KFpilot. The pilot you are talking about was me. offered a choice between resigning and been terminated after failing a proficiency check following diffrences training on the CRJ 700. I told them to go ahead and terminated me. I was not given a chance to do a recheck as required by the contract.
I was represented by the union during the meeting with the manager of flight standards. The union filed a grievance on my behalf and thanked me for having the courage to bring this matter to their attention.
I am not a bad pilot. I made a mistake failed a PC check and I accepted full responsibility for the failure. I was totally truthful about it in my interveiws. Both companies who interveiwed me were very supportive of me. I had very strong refrences from pilots who had flown with in my previous jobs. They felt I had been treated unfairly. You do not fire a pilot who has been flying the line succesfully for failing one check without given him a recheck.
I proofed myself here doing excellently in the training which is much harder than what we did at PSA. I passed my type ride on first attempt which speaks for my ability as a pilot.
Listening to your comments I see why I got fired from PSA. KFPILOT was my sim captain at PSA and must have had a field day bashing my reputation. I was loyal to her much to the disgust of most of my classmates who held her in very low esteem. Felt she was a gulfstream academy grad and did not know what she was doing. If she looks at my past posts she will see that I made a strong defence for Gulfstream grads using her as an example of what they can achieve.
She needs to get her facts right before she starts yapping about stuff. I flew with her once and I was not critical of her lack of knowledge as regards the systems in the airplane when we had a minor malfunction.
PSA had a black recruiter who hired a few qualified minorities most who had in excess of 5000 hrs like myself. After he left PSA to work elsewhere with a lot of encouragement and I believe quite some support from people like KFPILOT here quite a few of those minorities have lost their jobs making them feel a little bit witch hunted. But mostly it has just been more experience pilots expecting miracles from 1000 hr pilots and just complaining too much about normal short comings. I was one of the best first officers at PSA as far a flying the airplane goes. training was tough, OE was tough but a learned the airplane quickly as is expected of a pilot of my experience. For KFPILOT that is her first PIC position. I already had 1000 hrs turbine PIC before I even got to fly for PSA.
Again my performance speaks for itself. Believe it Karen I am a Captain at NWAIRLINK!!
I am happy about my contributions to PSA Pilots since the event with me no other person has been fired under the same circumstances. The union put a stop to that injustice!
My case is still pending and I am been strongly represented by ALPA. It is a case they are very confident of winning.
KFPILOT is just a basket case and I now understand why most of our mutual classmates at PSA have always wondered why I even stick up for her when they begin bashing how disorganise she looks and presents herself.
I have to learn to call a spade a spade!
