TMMT
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Maybe this is just a quirk or an odd pet peeve of mine but I was hoping I could put it forth and let some others chime in.
Why does our profession attract so many wannabes, I’m not talking about the occasional kid parading around the internet demanding everyone address him as Captain, but the odd balls who actually show up at a given place and truly try to pass themselves off as a pilot, more specifically a professional pilot.
The reason I ask this has to do with a few experiences with rather odd folks I’ve ran into and had extended dealings with only to discover later the truth.
Most of them were harmless enough or so I thought till yesterday we actually had a guy apply for a freaking job here and had fake credentials.
We had just concluded a trip and I was dutifully finishing my paperwork waiting my turn at the sole functioning copier machine we have when our Asst. Chief, who was at the copier asked me if something looked odd about this, and he handed me a photo copy page containing a medical cert and three FAA certs. The medical looked normal but the certificates looked bizarre.
We thought at first it was just a copier machine fluke, but the secretary said she used the very same copier we were at so we ran a little test and plopped our certs down and photo copied them… very different results indeed.
We began to wonder so our Asst. Chief pulled his resume and began calling up his formers and Whadda shock all of them were no longer in business or we were unable to find a place listed by that name.
Times on his resume seem a bit high and his dates don’t match up. The final straw that pegged my BS meter was his claim to have completed his G-IV type at FSI in Chicago not to mention his ATP had the G-IV listed as “G-1159C” not the correct FAA type.
Pulled up the FAA database and found four folks by this persons name but none with identical credentials, addys etc.
We called the FAA and what a frigging joke, they could have cared less!!! Told us to notify the police, so we did, who told us to contact the FAA. Finally we called the LA FBI office and they said they would get back to us, advised us not to hire the person. Yes you read that right that is verbatim what they said.
I’ve bumped into some strange types in my days but this one takes the cake.
How many folks parade around pretending to be doctors or lawyers? Hell impersonating a cop or military officer will land your big ole butt in the pokey.
Just what the heck is wrong with the world?
TMMT
Why does our profession attract so many wannabes, I’m not talking about the occasional kid parading around the internet demanding everyone address him as Captain, but the odd balls who actually show up at a given place and truly try to pass themselves off as a pilot, more specifically a professional pilot.
The reason I ask this has to do with a few experiences with rather odd folks I’ve ran into and had extended dealings with only to discover later the truth.
Most of them were harmless enough or so I thought till yesterday we actually had a guy apply for a freaking job here and had fake credentials.
We had just concluded a trip and I was dutifully finishing my paperwork waiting my turn at the sole functioning copier machine we have when our Asst. Chief, who was at the copier asked me if something looked odd about this, and he handed me a photo copy page containing a medical cert and three FAA certs. The medical looked normal but the certificates looked bizarre.
We thought at first it was just a copier machine fluke, but the secretary said she used the very same copier we were at so we ran a little test and plopped our certs down and photo copied them… very different results indeed.
We began to wonder so our Asst. Chief pulled his resume and began calling up his formers and Whadda shock all of them were no longer in business or we were unable to find a place listed by that name.
Times on his resume seem a bit high and his dates don’t match up. The final straw that pegged my BS meter was his claim to have completed his G-IV type at FSI in Chicago not to mention his ATP had the G-IV listed as “G-1159C” not the correct FAA type.
Pulled up the FAA database and found four folks by this persons name but none with identical credentials, addys etc.
We called the FAA and what a frigging joke, they could have cared less!!! Told us to notify the police, so we did, who told us to contact the FAA. Finally we called the LA FBI office and they said they would get back to us, advised us not to hire the person. Yes you read that right that is verbatim what they said.
I’ve bumped into some strange types in my days but this one takes the cake.
How many folks parade around pretending to be doctors or lawyers? Hell impersonating a cop or military officer will land your big ole butt in the pokey.
Just what the heck is wrong with the world?
TMMT