Guitar rocker: You are about the only other one that has made a competent message. I cannot believe some of the others comments and name calling.....some pilots really are professional aren't they?
To the rest of you:
For the record, I am perfectly happy who I am flying for and what aircraft I am captain of with my seniority level. Right now at my pay and seniority, if I wanted to get on with Southwest, I would be downgrading....that is unless my company goes broke! Another thing, I never have applied to work for Southwest.
There is a huge factor to why I am willing to go out of my way; I would never want my kids or myself riding in the back of the aircraft while he is flying. Safety is a major issue here along with attitude. Attitude meaning he is not willing to learn aspects of the aircraft (systems, memory items, etc.). Obviously, just because one has a type doesn't mean a thing as the guy(who I am talking about) has a type in a Learjet....how did he get that?
As I had said before to all of you, COMPANIES DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE RESIGN BECAUSE THEY ARE GOOD AND SAFE PILOTS! The company that we both worked for made him resign because of his unsafe manner. I spent many hours with this guy while he was a co-captain (has his type rating and was working on being a captain, he came to the company with his type that he bought). Our chief pilot and other captains spent many hours flying with this guy while he was a co-captain….hell this guy racked up more that 500 hours as a co-captain. Why the hell do you think he never made it captain with our company?
I am sitting here realizing how messed up some of you actually are…The information that I am gathering is that you would sit your family on an aircraft with incompetent pilots, put them at risk...maybe death? But yet, you only felt that it was fair to let this guy fly because he put in his time as a pilot. Don’t ask to lean on my shoulder when that happens, I am the one trying to warn you!
Obviously, Southwest did not weed him out in the interview process because he did get past that. A major reason I was trying to find out information regarding this is because my old Chief Pilot (who is still chief pilot at the company I worked for in the past) called me to tell me about the circumstances on this guy. My old company has not been contacted at all by Southwest about this guy and asked if he worked for them. My old Chief Pilot and I wonder if the guy did not tell the truth on his application and never inserted that he worked at the company knowing if asked “Would you re-hire this guy, the answer is no.” The only other thing that I can fathom is that he has jumped from company to company(as he has problems at all of them) that he just forgot to list my former employer? Is this ethical on his part? Does everyone lie on applications nowadays?
If I would have known it was a regional airline that he applied for and my past employer was not notified, I would have done the same as if it was Southwest.
But since you all don’t give a ******************** about your own family members, I guess I will sit back and do nothing at all. Maybe it could be your family that sits in the back of the aircraft while he is flying up front and is providing that risk.
Aerodork: Obviously you are young (no offense)……If you look at past hiring trends when the majors were not hiring, some people had to wait til 10,000-12,000 hours in order to get hired. You are lucky at timing it right. I think you took it wrong on what I meant by that(level of flying that I am at)….what I was summing up in shorter sentence is I have a lot of flying experience behind me as a captain of a major airline. I had no intention of making it sound like I am better than anyone. I am just an ordinary pilot that works for an airline, but I have more experience as a pilot than some. Hell, you probably can out fly me as I am lazy and use autopilot all the time!
