cloudchaser44
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Once again I have flown right seat for thousands of hours - sometimes while being shot at by the way. If you head up to the top and read my "second" thread on this - it was to answer someones very good question about why, I, at 45 and with over 4000 hours of turbine time would want to fly for the regionals vs FEDEX etc - I answered that particular question - As a crewmember I'm there to support whomever is in the left seat - even guys I hate personally - even God forbid "women" - By the way that was sarcasim if you didn't catch that - Some of the best pilots I ever flew with in the Air Force were woman -
Bottom line is the thing that makes a "good" pilot is professionalism in while holding whatever "position" in the cockpit he or she is sitting in. Sometimes that is a single engine 206 in the mountains of Alaska - sometimes as a FO next to a 20 year old - and sometimes as the person that gets to "make" the final decisions. I think you have a "vision" of who and what I am that is very different from "who" I really am. I fly every flight thinking there is one more thing I can learn - I've had wonderful mentors both young and old and I hope to pass on the tricks of the trade to those I fly with no matter what position. Making a statement that the worst pilot you ever flew with held the same position as I at one time in his life and then equating that to my experience or my personality without ever having flown with me or met me - I think is short sighted. This is a public site and as such anyone gets to "chime" in with his or her opinions - just realize I'm not going to let those that don't know me out here make uninformed statements without a response.
Let me just put out there this one question, and please everyone and I mean "everyone" that has jumped into the thread here think about what I'm saying and respond truthfully and we'll leave it at that.
Given the "preference" would you rather be in the left seat making the decisions or the right seat "supporting" those decisions? And please leave out the pyscho babble "thinking" you know me - anyone out here that does know me and has flown with me chime in - I mean I still get Christmas cards from old Tweet students - and anyone going through UPT knows that just doesn't happen - that is a place where it's institutional to be an asswipe as an IP - I was a 49er for a season and the best coaches I ever had where the ones that used positive reinforcement not negative - I've flown and taught that way my whole career - just to clear things up. Something tells me - this is not to be the last post - but so be it. i would like to read the answers from anyone that feels willing to place them here - I certainly understand the importance of CRM - especially in terms of "Can you as a 45 year old pilot with your experience work as an FO next to a 20 something Capt" - the answer is "of course" - and I'd mean it - it's the difference between the pilot taking out his own plane on a sunday afternoon - and those that call this a profession.
Everyone Fly Safe
Sean
Bottom line is the thing that makes a "good" pilot is professionalism in while holding whatever "position" in the cockpit he or she is sitting in. Sometimes that is a single engine 206 in the mountains of Alaska - sometimes as a FO next to a 20 year old - and sometimes as the person that gets to "make" the final decisions. I think you have a "vision" of who and what I am that is very different from "who" I really am. I fly every flight thinking there is one more thing I can learn - I've had wonderful mentors both young and old and I hope to pass on the tricks of the trade to those I fly with no matter what position. Making a statement that the worst pilot you ever flew with held the same position as I at one time in his life and then equating that to my experience or my personality without ever having flown with me or met me - I think is short sighted. This is a public site and as such anyone gets to "chime" in with his or her opinions - just realize I'm not going to let those that don't know me out here make uninformed statements without a response.
Let me just put out there this one question, and please everyone and I mean "everyone" that has jumped into the thread here think about what I'm saying and respond truthfully and we'll leave it at that.
Given the "preference" would you rather be in the left seat making the decisions or the right seat "supporting" those decisions? And please leave out the pyscho babble "thinking" you know me - anyone out here that does know me and has flown with me chime in - I mean I still get Christmas cards from old Tweet students - and anyone going through UPT knows that just doesn't happen - that is a place where it's institutional to be an asswipe as an IP - I was a 49er for a season and the best coaches I ever had where the ones that used positive reinforcement not negative - I've flown and taught that way my whole career - just to clear things up. Something tells me - this is not to be the last post - but so be it. i would like to read the answers from anyone that feels willing to place them here - I certainly understand the importance of CRM - especially in terms of "Can you as a 45 year old pilot with your experience work as an FO next to a 20 something Capt" - the answer is "of course" - and I'd mean it - it's the difference between the pilot taking out his own plane on a sunday afternoon - and those that call this a profession.
Everyone Fly Safe
Sean
