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[SkyGirl]

Sounds like you're way over qualified to be working at NJA...

Yes, no offense SafetyTheSeat, but why, when you have 1550 hours in Gulfstreams, would you go to an organization with no Gulfstreams?

_SkyGirl_

 

[TurboJetCpt]

Yes, no offense SafetyTheSeat, but why, when you have 1550 hours in Gulfstreams, would you go to an organization with no Gulfstreams?

_SkyGirl_

For the same reason I have a whole logbook full of international DC10 time, but fly for Netjets...a combination of 9/11 and hiring fortune, or misfortune, depending on how you look at it, opportunity, and most importantly, TIMING. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[GVFlyer]

Yes, no offense SafetyTheSeat, but why, when you have 1550 hours in Gulfstreams, would you go to an organization with no Gulfstreams?

_SkyGirl_

Good question. There's always been a shortage of qualified Gulfstream captains, but it's worse now.

For instance, Bank of America looked for two GV captains for nearly two years before partially filling their requirements by hiring an FSI GV instructor. It took Oprah a year to find Felix, then three more to find her most recent hires, Ken and Terry. Simon Bros. has experienced difficulties finding Gulfstream captains to man their new aircraft. American Express, last time I checked, had an open billet for a G-IV captain. Avjet always has an open requirement for Gulfstream captains and the employee who recruits one gets a $2500 finders fee.

NJI has recently hired two pilots I know who are G1159 only and has in some cases had to waive their 500 hours in Gulfstream requirement entirely. Even Gulfstream Flight Operations can't find qualified Gulfstream pilots - their most recent hire was a USAF tanker driver.

GV

 

[Hogprint]

GV Flyer posted:

Even Gulfstream Flight Operations can't find qualified Gulfstream pilots - their most recent hire was a USAF tanker driver.

GV

I'm sure that if he was flying tanker's he's qualified to fly your G's.

Come on guys. It's another plane. Pull back, cows get small, push forward, cows get big.

 

[Hogprint]

I get it, Captain. You sound like a former Army Warrant Officer with a high school education and a built-in resentment for Commissioned Officers who's just all giddy to be flying something where the wings don't move faster than the fuselage. Give it a break, Chief.

Got a little Warrant envy there Colonel? The W1's and W2's bagging all the flight time, while you fly the desk?

 

[GVFlyer]

GV Flyer posted:



I'm sure that if he was flying tanker's he's qualified to fly your G's.

Come on guys. It's another plane. Pull back, cows get small, push forward, cows get big.

Pull back farther, the cows bet bigger again...


You miss the point, Hogprint. The Gulfstream Flight Operations Manual states that pilots will be rated and hired in the following Categories:

Category I - Experienced Gulfstream Pilots

Category II - Experienced Transport Pilots

Category III - Experienced Pilots

If Category I pilots are available, that's what the company is to hire. By the Manual, upgrade times will be 2 to 4 times longer for category II pilots, and Flight Ops needs functioning pilots as soon as possible.

In any event he won't fly a real Gulfstream for years. New hires at Gulfstream who are not Gulfstream rated (with the exception of experimental test pilots) go first to the Airborne Product Support G100, then progress through the Israeli Products Department before flying the Gulfstreams.

Gulfstream used to hire only Gulfstream Captains, but it's been years since the company has been able do that.

Part of the reason, I suspect, is compensation. At Gulfstream, unrated FO's start at $80K, average captain pay is $125K and tops out at about $155K (with a defined benefit pension plan), while many industry positions pay over $200k.

GV





~

 

[SeaSpray]

Got a little Warrant envy there Colonel? The W1's and W2's bagging all the flight time, while you fly the desk?

My service doesn't have aviation warrant officers. I did get my joint service block colored in with the Army, though. You're partially right about why I'm planning to leave the military. This will probably be my last cockpit assignment for a while. Even if I go back to my weapons system, it is not well suited for an easy transition to civilian flying.

 

[WGFP48]

And it came to pass that the archangel descended from heaven and spoke to the pilot in a dream.

Verily I say unto you, go forth and bid the Lord God Bird......

And thou shalt be a great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which hath divers colours, come unto Okatie and take the highest branch of the cedar;

Say now unto the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? Behold, the king of Columbus is come to Okatie, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Columbus.

That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.


My dream was awesome! Is this how it came to you to fly the God Bird?

I've been talking to every NJI'er I can find. Nice bunch of folks. Funny...nobody sees the sky falling.

Just you WGFP48

Once again the rantings and ravings of a mad man!! Did you not take your meds?? Or maybe "the small man" problem...or is it " you like gladiator movies"? In any case the ravings that you put to print show your true character...I have not defamed anyone here...I fly airplanes as a passion...not a job...any idiot can fly a plane...but one with true passion in aviation is a pilot...you sir are nothing but a "truck driver"!!

 

[SeaSpray]

I've been talking to every NJI'er I can find. Nice bunch of folks. Funny...nobody sees the sky falling.

Do you think it might be because they know something you don't?

 

[WGFP48]

Do you think it might be because they know something you don't?

BINGO!

 

[TurboJetCpt]

Do you think it might be because they know something you don't?

There you go again...just can't shut that piehole can you ? I would highly recommend you stay where you are...at a desk.

 

[WGFP48]

There you go again...just can't shut that piehole can you ? I would highly recommend you stay where you are...at a desk.

TinkerJetCapt....you have been getting pretty dressed down by some of the others here ...haven't you had enough??

 

[TurboJetCpt]

TinkerJetCapt....you have been getting pretty dressed down by some of the others here ...haven't you had enough??

You must be reading a different thread then...

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[squonk]

Do you think it might be because they know something you don't?

What in Little Ricky's checkered past makes you think he will keep his word?

 

[miles otoole]

..what other civilian plane can have nearly the same performance (lightly fueled) as a F4 Phantom II???!

A Global Express, but bigger. Flown a Phantom II at TPS-a pig by today's standards.

 

[SeaSpray]

There you go again...just can't shut that piehole can you ? I would highly recommend you stay where you are...at a desk.

My office is at 49,000 feet, chief. What "TurboJet" did you say you were captaining?

 

[Cavpilot]

COL SeaSpray:
As a worthless, Army, Warrant Officer, NJA, Non-G flyn' puke, I have to say that I LOVE your posts! Please do not stop posting. You truly bring a smile to my face every time I read your pontifications. I must admit that I did not believe that you were for real the first few posts of yours that I read. But the more that you wrote, the more I realized that you are the most EXACT stereotype of of an RLO that I have ever seen.
Keep it up, you are providing a lot of entertainment for me and the rest of my low life peers.

 

[Sctt@NJA]

Seems a little strange to me that a military pilot is all puffed up flying a freakin business jet. Don't our armed forces have far more interesting airplanes?

Faster, further, higher, bigger ect?

 

[TurboJetCpt]

COL SeaSpray:
As a worthless, Army, Warrant Officer, NJA, Non-G flyn' puke, I have to say that I LOVE your posts! Please do not stop posting. You truly bring a smile to my face every time I read your pontifications. I must admit that I did not believe that you were for real the first few posts of yours that I read. But the more that you wrote, the more I realized that you are the most EXACT stereotype of of an RLO that I have ever seen.
Keep it up, you are providing a lot of entertainment for me and the rest of my low life peers.

He is SUCH an embarrassment to EVERY RLO and military pilot. So much bloviating and pure nonsense, it just makes you want to read what he will post next...you just can't look away, it's like a train wreck.

He has MUCH to learn about civilian aviation. He will absolutely LOSE HIS MIND, when he is assigned the right seat first, and realizes he must wait his turn to fly as Captain... LOL. His personality is so clearly evident in all of his posts. LUCKILY, he has chosen NJI...let them deal with him. COLONEL, GEAR UP, FLAPS UP and SHUT UP ! :laugh:

 

[Diesel]

My office is at 51,000 and Mach .92 What's that got to do with it?