Suthwest Pilots, this applies to you! Read On...

[flynlears13]

Uh, NO. Guess you can't read too well either. It says "left seater" right above the 8,000 hours. I'm a 747-400, A380, F/A-18F wanna be also.

Left seater in a Cessna 172?

 

[AeroDork]

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!

Understood. I'm no spring chicken myself, although I'm sure I'm not as old as you. I'm sure we've all flown with someone who got a type in something because FSI will give you a type as long as the check clears and I'm the last person you'll hear claim I can fly circles around anyone. But there are classier ways of going about this than openly coming on a forum and proclaiming "there's someone I need to make sure doesn't get hired by SWA. Someone help me figure out how to blackball this guy".

 

[Guitar rocker]

Flynlears, your right that hey, some people can get a Santa Clause and pass a type anywhere (perhaps rare, but it can happen). Dont get me wrong, because I aint no Wright Brother either, but you know what is sad......that there are people who dont do so well in training and it's the company itself that tries to push them through (perhaps to avoid a law suit for example) and in the end, nobodys outside opinion means jack. I guess in some cases being politically correct and the threat of a law suit is what over rides safety sometimes.....I've heard the stroies from a check airman from a certain airline where that was rampant as I am sure that we all have. Sad but true.

In the end, when we buy an airline ticket, we just might have one of those folks that were talking about sitting up front.

 

[flynlears13]

Understood. I'm no spring chicken myself, although I'm sure I'm not as old as you. I'm sure we've all flown with someone who got a type in something because FSI will give you a type as long as the check clears and I'm the last person you'll hear claim I can fly circles around anyone. But there are classier ways of going about this than openly coming on a forum and proclaiming "there's someone I need to make sure doesn't get hired by SWA. Someone help me figure out how to blackball this guy".

I realize now that I went about the original posting the wrong way and that so many pilots out there are narrow minded(I am sure I will get slammed for saying this too!). I guess some people don't keep an open mind and jump to conclusions.

Sad but true about FSI and the check clearing thing. It seems as if anyone could get a type rating these days.

One of the issues that bothers me and my old chief pilot is the fact that he apparently did not put on the application that he was employed with my past employer.

Whatever the case, I did get my information from several other pilots that agree with me. Your input was appreciated!

 

[falconvalley]

Have you considering calling the airline yourself? If you have and they ignore you...well that's that. I don't know why you're telling us about this. What are we gonna do about it?

If I read your posts correctly, I would want to steer well clear of you. Bad FO experience or not, you don't seem like a very nice person. There's this this thing we like to call a "paper trail". It's virtually required these days to fire someone and is a smart move if you really believe someone is unsafe and want to avoid a lawsuit. Have you considered seeing a doctor?

 

[flynlears13]

Falconvalley:

Either you did not read all the posts that I made or you did not understand them? Thank god you are not a psychiatrist....maybe you should stay in the field of being a pilot. Paper trail did not come to be a factor because the candidate did not put down all of his past employers, dude...just read the posts.

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Falconvalley:

Either you did not read all the posts that I made or you did not understand them? Thank god you are not a psychiatrist....maybe you should stay in the field of being a pilot. Paper trail did not come to be a factor because the candidate did not put down all of his past employers, dude...just read the posts.

You assume he didn't. Maybe they just don't care to hear what you guys have to say. Move on, leave it alone, nobody cares to hear about your personal beef with this guy. Where is Suthwest located anyway, I have never heard of them?

 

[falconvalley]

I'll read them again....yep, I still feel the same way. If you were worth your weight in experience, you would know that posting here about this is a waste of your time- but not mine. I'm here for fun! Maybe I a psychiatrist!!! Wheeee!!!